278 Sir G. F. Hampson on new 



wing yellowish white, the terminal area brown suffused with grey ; 

 some brown at extreme base; a quadrate dark brown discoidal spot, 

 its centre tinged with grey, with an oblique sinuous brown line 

 from it to above inner margin where it is rather diffused ; post- 

 medial line dark brown, strongly excurved between veins 5 and 2, 

 then defining the inner edge of the terminal area, with a yellowish 

 white sjwt on its outer side from below costa to vein 5 and small 

 spots between veins 5 and 2 ; cilia yellowish white with a series of 

 small brown spots and bars near base, the tips intersected by brown 

 below apex and at middle. 



Hab. Colombia, Choko, San Juan, La Selva, 1 tf; Brazil, 

 Amazons, Para (Trumbill), 1 S ; Manaos (Tritmb/II), 1 $; Peru, 

 Carabaya, Tinquiri (Ockenden), 2 §, Ocneque (Ockenden), 1 §; 

 Bolivia, La Paz (Garlepp), 1 J type. Exjp. 22-24 mm. 



Genus Sameodesma, nov. 



Type, S. fla vicost al is. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, the 2nd joint extending 

 abotit the length of head and fringed with hair above, the 3rd 

 moderate and smoothly scaled; maxillary palpi filiform; frons 

 rounded ; antennae somewhat laminate and almost simple. Fore 

 wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved ; vein 3 

 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from well 

 below upper angle ; 7 from angle and straight ; 8, 9 stalked ; 

 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 

 shortly stalked ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8 to 

 towards apex. 



(1) Sameodesma Jlavicostalis, sp. n. 



2 . Head and thorax pale yellow ; abdomen yellow tinged with 

 rufous ; antennas and palpi tinged with rufous ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen yellowish white, the tarsi fuscous at 

 extremities. Fore wing violaceous grey tinged with diffused red- 

 brown towards the yellow markings ; the base pale yellow except at 

 costa ; an obliquely curved reddish brown antemedial line, incurved 

 at median nervure, the costal area beyond it pale yellow, expanding 

 to discal fold in the cell and into a postmedial spot to vein 6 ; a 

 lunulate greyish discoidal spot defined by red-brown and with a 

 slight yellow spot before it in lower end of cell ; the terminal area 

 pale yellow, broadly at costa and narrowing to a point at vein 2, its 

 inner edge defined by a red-brown line, oblique to vein 5 and with 

 slight diffused rufous spot beyond it at discal fold on the yellow 

 area ; a terminal series of minute rufous points on the yellow area ; 

 cilia yellow with some brown at base at tornus. Hind wing 

 creamy white, the area beyond the cell faintly tinged with red- 

 brown from below costa to submedian fold. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Kumasi (Sanders), 2 $ type. Exp. 20 mm. 



