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10. Cosymbia dyschroa, sp. n. 



? . — 24 mm. 



Face pale olive. Palpus nearly twice as long as diameter 

 of eye, third joint slender, about half as long as diameter of 

 eye; pale olive above (third joint narrowly darkened), rather 

 paler beneath; crown, thorax, and abdomen concolorous, the 

 i s very narrowly white in front. 



'//./ rather broad, apex acute, minutely produced, 

 termen nearly straight, tornua pronounced; glossy am 

 grey with a slight olive tinge, somewhat sprinkled with 

 bluish-si'. ; costal region with some purplish dots, 



y very minute, a few on the margin itself (especially 

 near apex) less so ; lines indicated by dark vein-dots ; ante- 

 median outbent in middle, only the dots on M and SM well 

 developed ; postmedian from beyond two-third . very 



gently excurved in anterior half and incurved in posterior ; 

 Cell-spot elongate but small, white, very slightly dark-edged; 

 traces of a very faint greyish median shade beyond it, curved 

 parallel with postmedian; terminal line dull purple, very 

 slightly lunulate, appearing more so on account of the slight 

 interrupts n at vein-ends and confluence with small con- 

 colorous dots at base of fringe opposite the veins ; fringe 

 otherwise cream-buff. 



Hind winy with apex rectangular, termen bent at B, 3 ; 

 nearly as tore wing ; circumscription of cell-spot stronger, 

 median shade straighter, touching the cell-sp t. 



Both wings beneath paler, inclining to bluish white; fore 

 wing except posteriorly, hind wing at apex only, flushed with 

 pink ; a white cell-dot indicated on both wings, a row of 

 small weak postmedian dots on fore wing only. 



Caparo, W. Trinidad [F. Birch). 



The coloration recalls Zcdissolepis violacearia. Guen. 

 (Spec. Gen. Lep. ix. p. o£G), more than any other known 

 Cosymhia. 



11. Pisoraca diplosticla, sp. n. 



£.— 32 mm. 



Face dull reddish. Palpus fully twice as long as diameter 

 of eye, with third joint long ; red above, whitish ochreous 

 beneath. Vertex and antenna! shaft whitish ochreous, some- 

 what spotted with reddish. Thorax and abdomen nearly 

 concolorous w r ith wings, the abdomen somewhat redder above. 

 Hind femur fringed with fine whitish hair beneath ; hind 

 tibia with the proximal spur short. 



Fore wing with arcole rather small ; pinkish buff with a 



