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above vein 6, slightly incurved at discal fold, excurved at middle, 

 below vein 3 bent inwards, and angled inwards on vein 1, a faint 

 olive line beyond it ; two small blackish spots on postmedial part 

 of costa; subterminal line blackish, slightly angled outwards below 

 costa and more strongly at veins 6, 4, 3, angled inwards at vein 2, 

 then with strong black shade defined on inner side by brown and 

 ending at tornus ; a faint yellowish line before termen ; a terminal 

 series of brown striae and a spot between veins 4, 3 ; cilia yellowish 

 at base, white at tips, with dark line at middle, and series 

 of black points at tips. Hind wing white, the inner and 

 terminal areas tinged with brown, a narrow black discoidal bar; 

 traces of postmedial and subterminal dark points on the veins and 

 oblique bars from vein 2 to inner margin ; a terminal series of 

 dark points ; cilia with a dark line at middle ; the underside with 

 the costal area irrorated with brown ; the postmedial line crenulate 

 to vein 2 and excurved below costa, the termen with dark patch to 

 vein 5, subterminal spots ou median nervules and oblique black bar 

 at tornus. 



Eore wing with vein 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a 

 moderate areole. 



Hab. CosiA Rica, Sixola R. {Scliaus), type f c? in U.S. Kat. Mus. 

 Exp. A'Z millim. 



Genus GYRTONIDES, nov. 



Type, G. albifascia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi uptuniefl, the 2nd joiut reaching to middle 

 of t'rons and slightly fringed with hair behind towards extremity, the 3rd short, 

 porrect ; irons smooth with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennse of 

 male with long cilia ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 

 crests; fore tibise fringed on both sides with long hair, the mid and hind tibiEB 

 moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather 

 long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anas- 

 tomosing with 8 to form a long narrow areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



6804, Gyrtonides albifascia, n. ^p. 



(S . Head and tegulge rufous mixed with browu and grey, thorax 

 brown mixed with grey ; pectus and hind legs white ; abdomen 



Fig. 165. — Gyrtonides albifascia, (^ . \. 



brown, white at base and sides, the anal tuft rufous with dorsal 

 black streak defined by white, the ventral surface pale rufous 



