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narrowing above and with some whitish in outer part of centre ; 

 two strong waved blackish medial lines, followed by an oblique dark 

 bar from costa and slight line before the reniforra ; postmedial line 

 with black-brown patch at costa defined on each side by whitish, 

 irregularly waved to vein 4, then bent inwards to lower angle of 

 cell and oblique and sinuous to inner margin ; some whitish points 

 on postmedial part of costa ; a waved red-brown siibterminal line ; 

 a series of black sti'ise before termen and slight waved black 

 terminal line ; cilia dark brown. Hind wing dark brown with a slight 

 greyish gloss ; some pale reddish marks on vein 1 towards tornus ; 

 a minutely waved blackish subterminal line defined on outer side by 

 slight whitish marks towards tornus ; a series of black striae before 

 termen slightly defined by reddish ; a waved black terminal line ; 

 cilia white from apex to vein 4 intersected by dark streaks at veins 

 7, 6. Underside fuscous, the costal and tei-niinal area of fore wing 

 and the hind wing irrorated with white ; fore wing with diffused 

 oblique blackish medial line, discoidal spot, postmedial band in- 

 curved below discal fold and slightly defined on outer side by 

 whitish, subterminal white bar from costa and white patches on 

 termen and cilia at vein 5 and between vein 3 and stibmedian fold ; 

 hind wing with sinuous medial black line, discoidal bar, postmedial 

 slightly sinuous band defined on outer side by whitish and some 

 white on termen at apex, middle, and between vein 3 and submedian 

 fold. 



Hah. Colombia, Sierra del Libane, 1 S ; Tk. Guiana. Exp. 

 02 millim. 



Genus HYPOGRAMMODES, nov. 



Type, H. ahscondens. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to well 

 above vertex of head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd long ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennte of male with fasciculate cilia ; thorax clothed with 

 scales and hair mixed, the metathorax with spreading crest ; fore tibiae 

 broadly fringed with hair, the mid and hind tibiae moderately fringed with 

 hair, the midtibias of male dilated with a groove containing a tuft of hair, the 

 fore and hind tibite not spined ; abdomen witli dorsal ridges of hair on basal 

 segments but without crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex 

 somewliat produced, the termen evenly curved and t^lightly crenulate ; veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 Irom 10 anastomosino- 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell nearly half 

 the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above 

 angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



A. Hind wing with white apical patch. 



a. Fore wing with black spot on termen below apex ahscondens. 



b. Fore wing with small black spot before termen below apex, confusa. 



B. Hind wing without white apical patch. 



a. Hiud wing with pale band beyond the postmedial line, 

 ai. Fore wing with blackish patches on medial area in sub- 

 median interspace and beyond the cell ceoUa. 



b\ Fore wing witliout blackish patches on medial area in 



submedian interspace and beyond the cell feronia. 



