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minutely waved; some slight black marks on costa towards apex ; 

 a diiFused blackish subtermiual line ; a terminal series of black 



Fig. 12.— -Microhlemvia diacijnmcfa, 5 • f • 



striae. Hind wing fuscous brown mixed with some greyish ; the 

 underside greyish tinged with olive, a dark discoidal point, indistinct 

 curved postmedial line, and terminal series of striae. 



Hab. Panama, La Chorrera {Dolby-Tyler), 1 5 type. Exp. 

 14 millim. 



Genus PROROBLEMMA, nov. 



Type, P. stictopferis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2iicl joiut reaching 

 about to vertex of head and fringed with long hair above towards extremity. 

 the ;3rd short, porrect ; frons smooth; eyes large, round; anlennaj of female 

 ciliated; thorax clothed almoet entirely with scales and without crests; tibia? 

 slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, tlie termen very obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins ,3 and .5 

 from neai- angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle; 7 from angle; 8, 9, 10 

 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of ceil ; 5 nearly 

 fully developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell to near middle. 



5024. ProroWemma stictopteris. 



Acidalia stk/opteris, But.l. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 339. 



2 . Head and thorax pale purplish with a few black scales ; 

 abdomen browner. Fore wing pale purple irrorated with a few 

 raised black scales, the postmedial area rather redder except 



Fig. 13. — Prorohlemma sfiefoptoris. 9 • 



towards costa ; a black point in middle of ccdl ; postmedial line 

 fuscous, oblique from costa to vein 6, strongly incurved below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, dark, oblique and downcurved 

 from costa to vein 7 where it is angled, then minutely waved ; a 



