1895.] OP THE SCH(E«fOBIIIf.5; AlfD CBAMBES"^. 955 



Fig. 38. 



Chilo simplex, <^ . \. 



Sect. I, Hind wing of male with no fold below subcostal nervure 

 containing a tuft of hair. 



A. Fore wing of female with the apex slightly produced. 



a. {Donacoscaptes). Frons produced to a long sharp point. 



(1) Chilo validus, Zell. Hor. Ent. Eoss. 1877, p. 16, pi. i. 



f. 4 a, h. Colombia ; Amazons. 



b. Frons with a much shorter conical prominence. 



(2) Chilo dicheomellus, Wlk. xxxv. 1707. Hah. unknown. 



(3)tCHIL0 TrS'OSELLUS, n. sp. 



S . Dark red-brown with a purplish tinge. Fore wing with 

 purplish suffusion in cell and on outer area ; a whitish mark at 

 lower angle of cell ; a series of whitish submarginal specks ; a 

 marginal series of black specks and white specks at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing paler except the outer area. 



Hah. British Honduras. Exp. 30 mm. 



(4)tCHILO INCANELLUS, n. Sp. 



S ■ Grey-brown ; vertex of head whitish ; palpi and frontal 

 tuft blackish at sides ; shoulders blackish ; abdomen blackish, with 

 pale rings and dark anal tuft. Fore wing irrorated with a few 

 black scales and with faint traces of oblique postmedial and sub- 

 marginal lines. Hind wing fuscous ; the inner area clothed with 

 blackish hair ; both wings with marginal series of black specks. 

 Underside whitish ; both wings with indistinct curved submarginal 

 line. 



Hah. Castro Parana, Brazil (Jones). Evp. 46 mm. 



(5)tCHILO NI&RISTIGjMJSLLUS, n. sp. 



2. Pale ochreous; the base of abdomen fulvous; fore vnng 

 thickly irrorated with black ; a prominent black discocellular spot ; 

 an oblique line from beyond upper angle of cell to inner margin 

 before middle ; traces of a submarginal line. Hind wing whitish, 

 with blackish ban- on inner area ; a diffused postmedial line ; both 

 wings with the marginal specks prominent ; underside with black 

 discocellular spot. 



Hah. Castro Parana, Brazil {Jones). Exp. S 44, § 60 mm. 



