528 ^^^'- "VV. Scliaus on 



vinj^ near tip. Head, collar, and thorax fuscous, the collar 

 faintly edged with silky buff scales. Abflomen dark grey, 

 with some paler transverse sliades. Fore wing hone- win fe, 

 shaded with pale olive-brown medially ; base, costal margin, 

 cell, and inner margin to boyond middle irrorated with 

 fuscous brown, leaving a whitish antemedial line; abroad 

 black line on diseocellular ; a postmedial fascous-hrown line 

 from costa to vein 5 ; outer margin broadly fuscons brown, 

 interrupted by an oblique white line from vein 5, bifurcating 

 at apex; some whitish marginal shadings above tornns. 

 Hind wings fuscous brown ; traces of a postmedial buff 

 shade, surmounted by a small black spot on inner margin. 

 Wings below dull fuscous brown ; darker discal spots ; a 

 broad pale postmedial shade ; a dark medial Hue on hind 

 wings. 



Expanse 19 mm. 



Uab. Sixola. 



HomopyraUs elongaia, sp. n. 



(^ . Palpi fuscous grey, the basal half of third joint buff- 

 white. Head, collar, and thorax dark greyish brown. Abdo- 

 men grey-black; a buff-white dorsal spot at base. Fore 

 wings rather long and narrow, dull dark brown, indistinctly 

 mottled with grey-buff, forming subbasal and antemedial 

 lines, the latter followed by a fine irregular black line, and 

 the space between them shaded with black ; a small fuscous 

 spot in cell and indistinct darker geminate medial line; a 

 round black spot on diseocellular ; postmedial consisting of 

 vague fuscous spots on veins, outcurved beyond cell, followed 

 by a pale shade on costa and. marked by a larger spot on 

 submedian; the subterminal sinuous, greyish, outwardly 

 edged with fuscous shades, chiefly above and below vein 5 ; 

 terminal black spots ; cilia black, cut by pale shades at veins. 

 Hind wings dark brown ; a short, white, black-edged streak 

 at anal angle. Wings below greyish, the hind wings with 

 indistinct discal spot, outer and subterminal lines. 



Expanse 23 mm. 



Uab. Sixola; also the Guianas. 



The narrow wings and pale dorsal patch on abdomen will 

 help to distinguish this species. 



HomopyraUs nireus, sp. n. 



cJ . Palpi buff, ringed with fuscous brown. Head reddish 

 brown. Collar buff, irrorated with olive-brown. Thorax 

 mottled reddish brown, buff, and black. Abdomen above 



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