586 Sir G. F. Hampson on new 



891 b. Episilia lacteicosta, sp. n. 



<$ . Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous ; antennas 

 blackish except towards base ; palpi rufous, white at tips and 

 with some black at side of second joint ; abdomen whitish 

 tinged with rufous and dorsally with brown. Fore wing 

 whitish suffused with bright rufous except on costal area 

 and slightly irrorated with black ; the median nervure 

 streaked with white; a strong black fascia below basal half 

 of median nervure and a black streak above middle of median 

 nervure; a small black spot in middle of cell and larger 

 discoidal spot with a blackish streak between their lower 

 parts continued faintly above vein 4 ; a postmedial series of 

 black points, bent outwards below costa and oblique below 

 vein 4 ; a wedge-shaped black shade from termen at discal 

 fold, a lunulate shade below vein 3, and a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing pure white, the inner margin 

 faintly tinged with brown ; a small blackish discoidal spot 

 and terminal series of black striae from apex to vein 2. 

 Underside of fore wing with the disk suffused with fuscous ; 

 hind wing with the costa tinged with rufous and the costal 

 area irrorated with large black scales. 



Hab. Peru, Agualani (Ockenden), 2 <$ type. Exp. 32- 

 34 mm. 



Genus Trichophotia, nov. 



Type, T. homogenea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 

 second joint reaching to about middle of frons and rather 

 broadly scaled in front, the third short, porrect; frons smooth 

 with tuft of scales and flattened tuft above between antennas; 

 eyes large, round, hairy, not overhung by cilia ; antenna? 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the 

 pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibise moderately 

 fringed with hair, all the tibiae spined ; abdomen with some 

 rough hair at base, but without crests. Fore wing rather 

 long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and not crenulate : veins 3 and 5 from near angle 

 of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form the areole ; ]1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell or shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



893 a. Trichophotia homogenea, sp. n. 

 r( . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with black-brown 



