Sjyecies of VyvtiVidie. 13 



wliite ; palpi black, white in front except at tips ; shoulders 

 with black bars with some fulvous above; fore tibiaj banded 

 witii black. Fore wing white tinged with ochreous yellow 

 and faintly irrorated with grey^ the costa pure white, except 

 at base which is fulvous ; a faint oblique grey antemedial 

 line; a slight white discoidal striga ; postmedial line in- 

 distinct, grey, oblique from vein 8 to discal fold, bent 

 outwards from vein 5 to below 3, then retracted to below 

 angle of cell and oblique and sinuous to inner margin. 

 Hind wing white faintly tinged with oclireous and irrorated 

 with grey; a faint grey discoidal striga; postmedial line 

 indistinct, grey, bent outwards between veins 5 and 2, then 

 retracted to below end of cell and again excurved. 



Hab. Mexico, Cuernavaca (H. H.Smith), 1 (^ type; Gua- 

 temala, San Geronimo {Cliampion) , 1 ? , Guatemala City 

 {Rodriyuez), 1 ? ; Costa Rica, Candelaria Mts. {Underwood) , 



1 cJ, Irazu {Rogers), 1 (J; Panama, Chiriqui {Champion), 



2 ? , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exjj. 40-48 ram. 



{73 a) Sylepta j)h(eophlebaUs , sp. n. 



c? . White; palpi, tegulae, and prothorax tinged with 

 orange ; fore tibire and tarsi tinged with fuscous. Fore 

 wing with rather diffused brown streaks on the veins, stronger 

 on subcostal and median nervures and veins 8^ 7, 4, 1. Hind 

 wing with faint brown streaks on median nervure and veins 5 

 to 1. Underside of fore wing with the costal area and termen 

 tinged with fuscous, a slight discoidal bar ; hind wing with 

 the termen narrowly fuscous. 



Hab. Peru, Rio Colorado {IVatkins d) TomUnson), 1 ,^ 

 type. Exp. 34 mm. 



(75 b) Sylepta atrisquamalis, sp. n. 



? . Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish wliite ; palpi with 

 black band at base of second joint and stieak above ; frons 

 with black bar above ; fore legs black in front except the tarsi. 

 Fore wing yellowish white ; small spots formed of aggregated 

 black scales beyond lower angle of cell below veins 5, 4, 3. 

 Hind wing yellowish white with an irroration of large black 

 scales in, beyond, and below end of cell. 



Hab. Germ. E. Africa, Bueni (Neave), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 32 mm. 



(76 b) Sylepta brunnescensi, sp. n. 



Hedylepta terricolalis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., flet. ii. p. 269 (part.), 

 nee Mikchl. 



9 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale reddish brown ; palpi 



