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Btill broader; anal area with an elongate dark spot j b pale spol in tip of the 

 dark b tripe; the upper branch of fork of radial sector margined with dark. 

 \\ inga rather Blender, broadly rounded at tip; stigma slender, rounded behind; 

 areola postica verj -mall, semicircular ; fork of radial Bector about as long as 

 the pedicel; firsi branch of median vein oppose base <>f fork of radial sector. 

 Veins pale in pale areas, dark in dark spaces; hind wings hyaline, veins pale. 

 Length ■'> mm. 



( ' \l.( -lui s CINCTICORNIS, Sp. DOV. 



Type, M. C. Z. 10,7X2. Philippines — Luzon: Nueva Vizcaya; 

 [mugin (( '. F. Baker). 



Pale yellowish brown. Head polished, a median round black spot on the 

 Qose; antennae pale, a rather broad black band. at tip of each joint; thoracic 



Lobes each with a large' polished black spot; abdomen dark, a median pale 

 stripe above; legs pale, tips of tarsi dark. Wings yellowish to brownish 

 fuinose, darkest in posterior cells, mostly yellowish on base, stigma yellowish, 

 pubescent; veins mostly pale yellowish, but beyond middle mostly dark. 

 Hind wings hyaline, yellowish on the costal base, veins pale. Wings long, 

 stigma slender, but slightly angled behind; areola postica very small, and not 

 twice as long as high; fork of radial sector as long as pedicel, and its base 

 opposite first branch of the median vein. 

 Length to tip of wing 5 mm. 



Caecilius pretiosus, sp. now 



Type.— M. C. Z. 10,809. Texas: San Antonio. D. C: \Yashing- 

 ton (in greenhouse). 



Pale yellowish, lobes of thoracic notum brownish. Wings hyaline, a faint 

 cloud over stigma reaching somewhat behind, and another cloud over the 

 areola postica reaching inward; a faint mark at end of anal vein. Veins 

 mostly very pale, the radial sector and the median veins before they meet are 

 heavily dark, forming a very distinct V-mark; the branches of median vein 

 more or less dark. The stigma is very long, as long as in C. aurantiacus, the 

 areola postica short and much lower than in C. aurantiacus, the end of the 

 areola postica is opposite that of the stigma, so that the median vein forks 

 far <>ut, and its branches are very short and close together; the radial sector 

 forks scarcely before end of the stigma. 



Length 3 mm. 



Caecilius deceptor, sp. now 



Type. — M. C. Z. 10,781. Philippines — Luzon: Xueva Vizcaya; 

 Imugin (C. F. Baker). 



