268 NocTiriD^. 



5 . Hind wing with black patch on costa just before apex and 

 without the black scales iu cilia at torn us. 



Hob. Panama, La Chorrera {Dolby-Tyler), 1 d , 1 $ type. 

 Exj). 14 millim. 



5405. Lycaugesia hypozonata, n, sp. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown tinged with purplish grey, 

 the last Avith the slight dorsal crests and lateral series of points 

 black ; palpi with the 3rd joint black except at tip. Fore wing 

 pale red-brown tinged with purplish grey especially towards costa ; 

 subbasal black points below costa and at inner margin ; an aiite- 

 medial black point in cell and small spot in subraedian fold ; a 

 medial blackish point on costa and faint pale discoidal bar with 

 wedge-shaped blackish mark beyond it ; a faint pale postmedial line 

 with blackish point at costa, oblique below vein 4 and with black 

 point in submedian fold ; some black points on costa towards apex ; 



Fig. 76. — Lycaugcsia hi/pozonata, S ■ ^■ 



a faint pale subterminal line, angled outwards at vein 7 and middle, 

 then obli(jue ; a terminal series of prominent black points. Hind 

 wing puri)lish grey suffused and irrorated with brown ; faint oblique 

 rufous subbasal and antemedial lines with some dark scales on them ; 

 an indistinct oblique minutely dentate postmedial line with some 

 black scales on it ; traces of a pale dentate subterminal line defined 

 on each side by some black scales ; a prominent series of black 

 points just before termen. Underside of fore wing blackish with 

 whitish postmedial band excurved at middle ; hind wing white with 

 diffused blackish medial and subterminal bands. 



Hah. Panama, La Chorrera {Dolby-Tyler), 2 c? , 2 5 type ; 

 Brazil, Amazons, Parana do Buyassu {Austen), 1 J . Exp. 14-18 

 millim. 



Genus STEGANIODES, nov. 



Type, S. mesophcea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, fringed with long hair in 

 front at base, the 2ud joint reaching to well above vertex of head, the 3rd short 

 and with triangular tuft of hair in front ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; 

 antenna; of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with rough hair and scales and without 

 crests ; fore coxae and femora of male with tufts of long hair, the tibiae smoothly 

 scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex 



