STICTOl'TEEA, 149, 



(Daks, Tramhill^ Ausfeii), 3 $ type sielrlaUs, Breves (Anstcn), 

 1 $ , Ega (Bates), 1 $ t}-i)Q phrijyanoldcs, Rio J^egro {Trail), 2 $ . 

 Exp. 34-40 millim. 



6374. Stictoptera heterogramma, n. sp. 

 (Plato CLXXVII. fig. 27.) 



$ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey and blackish : 

 palpi with blackish rings on 2nd and 3rd joints ; pectus and hind 

 legs grey ; abdomen grey with the crests blackish, Tore wing 

 olive-grey suffused with dark or reddish brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with red-brown; subbasal line represented by slight double 

 dark striie from costa ; autemedial line double, blackish, waved to 

 vein 1, then very strongly bent inwards to inner margin ; medial 

 line black defined on outer side by whitish, obliquely curved ; reni- 

 form with slight whitish annulus defined by brown ; postmedial line 

 double, black filled in with whitish, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, slightly excurved to vein 6, then very slightly waved, some- 

 what inwardly oblique to vein 3 where it is slightly bent inwards, 

 then outwardly oblique to inner margin, some purplish suffusion 

 beyond it followed by a dark shade slightly defined on inner side by 

 white and bent inwards at veins 6 and 3, a curved white bar from 

 it below vein 3 to toi'nus ; a slight dark shade slightly defined ou 

 inner side by whitish before termen, bent inwards at vein 6 and 

 ending on termen at vein 3 ; a series of blackish striae just before 

 termen defined on inner side by whitish. Hind wing hyaline, the 

 veins and a broad terminal band black-brown ; cilia chequered with 

 white at tips ; the underside with dark bar from middle of costa. 



Hah. Br. Guiana, Potaro 'R.{Kaye),2 $ type, llockstone (A'a^f), 

 1 2 'i Fi'- Guiana, S. Laurent Maroni {Le Moult), 1 5 . Exp. 38- 

 40 millim. 



Sect. II. {JHyiUa). Fore wing naiTOw, the apex not produced, the costa some- 

 what concave to beyond middle, • 



6375. Stictoptera descri^bens. 



M^ilia descrihens, Wlk. xiii. 1139 (1857); Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. ix. 



■p. 106, pi. 163. f. 11 ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 402. 

 Zophoptera xylinaia, Wlk. xxxiii. 920 (1866). 

 Stictojitera anisoptera, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 88, pi. 0. f, 9 (1880). 



S . Head and thorax dark red-brown, the tegulae tinged with 

 black ; legs black-brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 fuscous brown mixed with greyish. Fore wing brown suffused with, 

 purple-grey and slightly irrorated with black, the medial area tinged 

 with blackish; antemedial line double, very strongly angled in- 

 wards on the veins and outwards in the interspaces; orbicular 

 defined by blackish except on inner side, narrow and elongate ; 

 reniform faintly defined by black points and striaB ; medial line in- 

 distinct, black, somewhat oblique to vein 2, then inwardly oblique ; 



