Species of Pyialida;. 7 



abdomen whitish, the fringe of hair on hind tibise red-brown 

 on inner side. Fore wing with faint pale point in cell and 

 spot below it before the very indistinct antemedial line ; 

 a small pale spot in end of cell before the shght dark discoidal 

 Innnle with pale centre ; postmedial line indistinct, dark, 

 slightly bent outwards between veins 5 and 3 with two small 

 dentate white marks before it, then retracted to below end of 

 cell and erect to inner margin ; the costa pale before and just 

 beyond it. Hind wing with indistinct dark discoidal spot 

 followed by a faint pale bar before the postmedial line, which 

 is very indistinct and diffused, forming a spot beyond lower 

 angle of cell, then retracted to lower angle and oblique to 

 inner margin beyond middle ; cilia with brown line near base 

 and whitish tips ; the underside whitish. 



? . Fore wing rather brow-ner ; the point in cell and spot 

 below it more distinct ; no spot before the discoidal lunule, 

 the lower extremity of which is connected with three small 

 dentate pale marks in sinus of postmedial line, costa not pale ; 

 hind wing with the pale spot beyond the cell more distinct, 

 the postmedial line excurvcd at median nervules, not forming 

 a spot. 



Hub. ^'EXEZUELA, 1 ^ ; Fr. GuiAX.i, Cayenne (Schaiis), 

 1 cJ type, ]\faroni R. [Schaiis), type $ in Coll. Schaus. 

 Exp., c? 30, ? 28 mm. These may possibly be different 

 species. 



(38 a) Sijlepta leucinalis, sp. u. 



? . Head whitish suffused with cupreous brown ; palj)i 

 with blackish bands at extremities of first and second joints ; 

 thorax white slightly tinged with brown, the teguhe with 

 fuscous patches at middle j the fore tibiaj with blackish band ; 

 abdomen white with dorsal black band on third segment, the 

 terminal segments slightly tinged with brown. Fore wing 

 white slightly irrorated with brown ; a black point at base of 

 costa, slight subbasal striga from costa and point above inner 

 margin; antemedial line slight, dark, excurved from below 

 costa to inner margin ; small dark annuli in and below middle 

 of cell ; an oblique black discoidal bar with white point in its 

 upper part and some brown suffusion below it ; postmedial 

 line double, dentate, oblique from costa to vein 3, at vein 2 

 bent inwards to below end of cell and angled outwards above 

 vein 1, the area beyond it suffused with brown from apex to 

 vein 4 and towards tornus; a terminal series of blackish 

 strise ; cilia with dark line through them and dark points at 

 tips. Hind wing white slightly irrorated with brown ; two 



