PARACODIA. MICTOCHROA. 355 



*5542. Paracodia albiceps. (Plate CLIX. fig. 15.) 



Paracodia albiceps, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 465 (1909). 



S . Head white tinged with rufous ; palpi rufous, the tips of 

 2nd and 3rd joints white; frons with lateral red-brown bars; 

 antennae red-brown ; thorax cupreous red-brown with white spot 

 on metathorax; abdomen rufous, pale at base; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing 

 glossy red-brown with leaden silvery bands on medial area and 

 beyond postmedial line ; antemedial line whitish defined on each 

 side by rufous, waved ; stigmata absent ; postmedial line indi- 

 stinctly double, dark filled in with rufous, oblique from costa to 

 vein 5, then minutely waved, ending near tornus ; faint traces of a 

 minutely waved subterminal line ; a terminal series of blackish 

 striae. Hind wing white faintly tinged with rufous and slightly 

 irrorated with brown ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia white 

 with a blackish line through them ; the underside with blackish 

 discoidal spot and indistinct postmedial line excurved at middle. 



Hah. Colombia, Magdalena, Valeparaiso {H. H. SmitJi), type t J 

 in Coll. Druce. E,vj}. 18 millim. 



Genus MICTOCHROA, nov. 



Type, M. zoneUa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, short, rather slender, 

 and moderately scaled ; frons with large corneous prominence with raised 

 edges ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; build slender ; tibia 

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

 short and broad, the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosmg witli the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved from below 

 costa to vein 4. 

 a. Fore wing with the basal half not deep red. 



«'. Fore wing with the postmedial line not incurved to 

 lower edge of reniform. 



a'-. Hind wing white tinged with ochreous farona. 



IP'. Hind wing suffused with brown. 



a?. Fore wing with the reniform angled inwards 

 on median nervure. 

 a*. Hind wing with postmedial line on upper- 

 side harmonica. 



b^. Hind wing without postmedial line on upper- 

 side zonella. 



h^. Fore wing with the reniform not angled in- 

 wai'ds on median nervure. 

 a*. Fore wing rufous suffused in parts with dark 



brown parigana. 



b'*. Fore wing brassy yellow suffused in parts 



with dark brown albirena. 



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