MICRANXHA. — (EnEUASTRIA, 485 



exiremily produced to two points with some brown on the reins, 

 somewhat angled inwards on median nervure ; postmedial line 

 brown, oblique towards costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique ; subterrainal line double, the inner line slight with 

 black point at costa, the outer very strong, black and highly curved, 

 its outer edge produced to slight points below costa and with 

 another fine line beyond it; a fine lunulate black line just before 

 termen. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown; an indistinct 

 curved postmedial line ; cilia whitish ; the underside white slightly 

 irrorated with brown, traces of diffused brown medial and post- 

 medial lines, a terminal series of slight black lunules. 



Hah. Beazil, Rio Janeiro, type t $ in U.S. Nat. Mus. Ex£. 

 34 millim. 



5732. Micrantha cyclopis, n. sp. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 21.) 



2 . Head white, the palpi irrorated with fuscous, the antennae 

 black ringed with white ; thorax ochreous white irrorated with 

 black ; abdomen ochreous white Avith slight silvery segmental lines 

 and the crests tipped with black : pectus, legs, and ventral surface 

 of abdomen white irrorated with fuscous, the tarsi banded with 

 fuscous. Fore wing ochreous irrorated with black and suffused 

 with silvery purple except on basal area; a sligfit subbasal black 

 striga from costa; antemedial line black, incurved in cell; clavi- 

 form defined by black at extremity ; orbicular ochreous defined by 

 black on outer side, rouiKi ; reniform ochreous defined by black, 

 with blackish centre and some white on outer edge, elliptical ; 

 a rather diffused sinuous black medial line ; postmedial line double, 

 black filled in with ochreous, oblique towards costa, slightly 

 incurved at discal fold, incurved and waved below vein 4, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line defined on inner 

 side by black suffusion, minutely dentate, strongly angled inwards 

 in discal fold ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia 

 ochreous mixed with black at base, then white with some black at 

 tip^. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown ; a terminal series 

 of black striae ; cilia whitish with a black line through them ; the 

 underside white irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Panama, La Chorrera (Dolhij-Tijler), 1 $ type. Exj). 

 16 millim. 



Genus (EDERASTRIA. „ 



Type. 

 (Ederastria, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 375 (1902) ectorhoda. 



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

 about to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons 

 with rounded prominence ; eyes large, round ; antennse of male bipectinatei with 

 short branches, the apex serrate ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, 

 the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibias moderately fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest* on basal segments, the crest on 3rd segment 

 large. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen erenly curved, crenulate, 



