Pyralidee of the Subfamily Chrysaugine. 355 
4 absent; 6, 7 from upper angle; 7 slightly anastomosing with 8 ; 
a large patch of androconia on upper side on costal area towards 
apex. 
In key differs from Steptopalpia in the termen of fore wing 
being excised towards tornus, vein 7 from before 9, 10 from 
cell; the palpi about the length of head. 
(7) Lepidomys furvilimacealis, sp. n. 
3. Head and thorax pale purplish red; abdomen brownish 
ochreous ; legs purple-brown, the tarsi ringed with white; ventral 
surface of abdomen whitish suffused with purple-brown. Fore 
wing pale purplish red tinged with brown, the terminal area suf- 
fused with cupreous red; an almost straight erect reddish-white 
almost medial line; postmedial line reddish white, slightly ex- 
curved from below costa to vein 4 and with a white point at 
costa; a brownish terminal line; cilia purplish pink. Hind wing 
white tinged with brown, the terminal area tinged with purple 
to vein 2; cilia purplish pink with white tips to vein 2, then 
whitish with a brownish line near base. Underside of fore wing 
purplish red irrorated with some white scales, the inner area 
ochreous white, the postmedial line ochreous white, a slight dark 
diseoidal bar; hind wing with the costal and terminal areas 
suffused with purplish red, a curved whitish postmedial line. 
Hab. Boutvia, Sara Prov., 2 ¢ type. Hap., 5 24, 2 26 mm. 
(8) Lepidomys meterythralis, sp. n. 
@. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown, tarsi ringed with 
whitish. Fore wing purplish red-brown, the terminal half of 
costa deep red ; a faint pale curved line just beyond middle, with 
oblique pure white bar from costa ; a postmedial pure white point 
on costa; a terminal series of pure white points. Hind wing 
bright fulvous red. Underside fulvous red; fore wing with the 
costa brownish with a postmedial white point on it. 
Hab. Pur, Iquitos, 1 2 type. Herp. 16 mm. 
Genus THERMOTESIA, nov. 
Type, Nachaba violascens, Schaus. 
Palpi rostriform, downcurved, about three times length of head 
and moderately fringed with hair above and below; frons with 
large tuft of hair; antenne of male ciliated; tibie slightly 
fringed with hair, Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 
evenly curved; vein 2 from angle of cell; 3, 4, 5 stalked; 6, 7 
shortly stalked; 8 and 10 shortly stalked, 9 absent; 11 from 
cell; the male with a groove below costa before middle on upper- 
side followed by a lobe fringed with large scales below. Hind 
wing with vein 2 from near angle of cell; 3, 4, 5 from angle; 
6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 
(4) Lophopleura rectifascia, sp. n. 
3. Head and thorax deep maroon-red; abdomen dark reddish 
