376 NocTUiD^i:. 



costal area, a medial patch below the cell and the terminal area 

 rather whiter ; antcmedial line blacliish defined on outer side by 

 whitish except towards inner margin, oblique to median nervure, 

 then inwardly oblique and somewhat dentate ; small black spots 

 below middle of cell, in middle of cell, and two obliquely placed 

 on the discocellulars ; a slight dark bar across the cell before 

 extremity ; postmedial line dark, bent outwards and almost obsolete 

 below costa, then waved, oblique to vein 4, then inwardly oblique 

 to middle of inner margin and met at vein 1 by an oblique 

 dentate black line from median nervure defined on inner side by 

 white, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 whitish, dentate and defined on inner side by dentate brown marks, 

 slightly bent inwards below vein 3 ; a terminal series of small black 

 spots. Hind wing dark chocolate-brown. 



Ilah. Teinidad, Cuparo {Birch)., type f $ in Coll. Druce. 

 Exj). 36 millim. 



Genus STENISCADIA, nov. 



Type, S. poliophcBa. 



Pi-oboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned, 

 reaching to far above vertex of head and fringed with hair above towards 

 extremity, the 3rd long and somewhat dilated at extremity; frous smooth, with 

 ridge of hair above ; eyes large, round; antennae of female almost simple; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the 

 metathorax with slight depressed crest ; tibiiE moderately fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing long and narrow, the 

 margins subparallel, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and not 

 crenulate ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from well above angle ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long very narrow 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell, 4 

 absent, coincident with 3 ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell to middle. 



6698. Steniscadia poliophaea, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax brown mixed with grey-white, the tegulae red- 

 brown edged with whitish ; palpi whitish at base and at base of 3rd 

 joint ; pectus and legs whitish, the fore tibiae and tarsi brown above ; 



Fig. 142. — Steniscadia poliophcea, § . \. 



abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface whitish except towards 

 extremity. Fore wing whitish thickly irrorated with black-brown 

 and tinged with rufous in submedian interspace ; traces of a double 

 waved subbasal line, a diffused black patch from costa to median 

 nervure before the autemedial line, which is double, black filled in 



