NEW SPECIES OF TBINIDAD MOTHS. 993 



Family IST o c x u i D ^. 

 Subfamily Erastrian^. 



Beyolimnia bionodonta, sp. n, (PI. I. fig. 20.) 



Third joint of palpi, frons, and base of antennse white. Thorax 

 light brown with a pair of white tufts behini. Fore wing with 

 the base chocolate-coloured, followed by a broad pure white band 

 deeply toothed on outer edge and with a small chocolate spot on 

 costa. Postdiscal area chocolate, lighter towards inner margin 

 and darkening towards costa. Cilia white, with a square dark 

 spot about middle and with the tornus chocolate. Hind wing 

 smoky greyish black, the apical area much the darkest. Dis- 

 coidal spot indistinct, blackish. Abdomen greyish black. Exp. 

 26 mm. 



Habitat. Trinidad, Siparia, 16. vi. 18 (iY. Lament). 



Bryocodia cryptogramma, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 19.) 



Palpi with the first joint brown, the second and third whitish 

 with dark brown marks. Fore wing dull olive greenish with 

 pink and brown markings. A dark mark at base and a heavy 

 brown basal line. A median fascia most prominent at costa and 

 much broken at and beyond middle. A postmedian, thin, much- 

 curved line, most prominent on veins 1, 2 and 4, 5. A dark 

 curved apical fascia and a dark brown spot at tornus. Hind 

 wing coloured as fore wing, with double submedian brown lines 

 and a deeply curved postmedian single line. Underside of fore 

 wing below cream-coloured with dark median and postmedian 

 lines ; a broad outer marginal fascia dark brown. Hind wing 

 below coloured as fore wing, except that in the region of the 

 anal angle the dark brown fascia is broken up with the pale 

 ground-colour. Exp. 28 mm. 



Habitat. Trinidad : Oaparo, Oct, 1904 (Birch) ; Palmiste, 

 27. xi. 15 (JV. Lamont). 



Parangitia nigrofulgens, sp. n. (PI. I. fig, 5.) 



Palpi, collar, and patagia yellowish brown. Abdomen fawn- 

 coloured. Fore wing dark shining coppery black. A double 

 indistinct waved black line close to base. Apex lighter than 

 rest of wing and followed by indistinct double black lines. 

 A curiously placed black angular mark on vein 2 close to 

 edge of cell. Hind wing black with the whole of the large inner 

 area dark cupreous grey. Fore wing below dull black with the 

 inner mai'ginal area paler. Underside of hind wing rather dark 

 slaty grey with a darker marginal band. Exp. 24 mm, 



Habitat. Trinidad {N. Lamont), 



