TASEOriERYX. TEOGOTORN'A, 331 



parts with rufous, the costal edge brownish ; the basal area with 

 some brownish suffusion in and just below cell aud a slight black 

 streak in submedian fold ; an obliquelj^ downcurved ochreous 

 white fascia slightly defined by black from subcostal nervure before 

 middle to postmedial line in submedian interspace, followed by a 

 triangular patch of brown suffusion in, below, and beyond the cell 

 with the broad diffused yellowish- white reniform on it ; the area 



Fig. 97. — Taseopteryx sericea, <^. -j- 



from upper angle of cell to costa towards apex whitish with dark 

 streaks on the veins and with some rufous suffusion beyond it ; 

 postmedial line double, black filled in with whitish, obliquely 

 incurved from vein 6 to submedian fold where it is slightly bent 

 outwards ; an oblique whitish streak from apex ; the interspaces of 

 terminal area with slight whitish streaks, their basal parts slightly 

 defined above and below by fuscous scales ; some blackish points on 

 termen above tornus ; cilia chequered brown and whitish. Hind 

 wing whitish suffused with brown ; a fine brown terminal line ; 

 the underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, a black point 

 at upper angle of cell and irregularly sinuous brown postmedial 

 line. 



Hab. Chili {Edmonds), 2 d type, Valparaiso (J. J. Wtdlcer), 

 4 $ . Kijy. 28 millim. 



Genus TEOGOTORNA, nov. 



Type, T. persecia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; f'rons with truncate conical 

 prominence with raised edges, its lower part filled in -nith scales; eyes large, 

 round ; antennee of female minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with 

 scales, the protliorax with small spreading crest, the metathorax without crest ; 

 tibiae moderately frinfred with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only 

 and lateral tufts of scales from above the stigmata. Fore wing rather long and 

 narrow, the apex rounded, the termen strongly excised towards tornus ; veins 

 3 aud 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 i'rom angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully 

 developed from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5509. Trogotorna persecta, n. sp. 



2 ■ Head reddish brown mixed with some whitish ; thorax 

 white mixed with some reddish brown ; tarsi dark brown ringed 



