XA^^THOPTERA. 655 



i'. Fore wing with the teruiinal area not suffused with 

 rufous. 

 «'. fore wing with more or less distinct postniedial 

 line bent outwards below costa and oblique below 



vein 5 aurifera. 



l'^. Fure wing without iDOstmedial line nigrojimbria. 



5992. Xanthoptera rufescens, n. sp. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 20.) 



d" . Head and thorax ochreoiis white mixed with rufous; abdomen 

 white tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated with brown. Tore 

 wing white irrorated with rufous, the costal and terminal areas 

 suffused with rufous except at apex, the median nervure, the veins 

 arising from it, and the discal and submedian folds streaked with 

 rufous to the postmedial line ; antemedial line rufous, oblique from 

 costa to discal fold and very oblique inwardly below submedian 

 told ; a slight dark discoidal point ; postmedial line rufous, very 

 oblique from costa to vein 6 where it is met by a rather diffused 

 oblique fascia from termen below apex, then oblique to middle of 

 inner mai-gin, some slight pale points beyond it on costa ; an 

 ill-rlefined very slightly waved rufous subterminal line from the 

 angle of postmedial line to inner margin, excurved at middle ; 

 a brown terminal line ; cilia greyish and brown, with a dark line 

 through them. Hind wing ochreous white ; slight brown post- 

 medial points on veins 4, 3, 2 ; the veins towards termen and the 

 termen from apex to vein 2 tinged with brown ; a fine brown 

 terminal line ; cilia white tinged with rufous from apex to vein 2 ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with red-brown, a 

 slight discoidal point and curved postmedial line with points on the 

 veins. 



^ . Hind wing uniformly suffused with brown. 



Hah. Trinidad, 1 c? ; Colombia, Magdalena, ' Minca ; Brazil, 

 Eahia (Lacerda), 1 6 type. Ex^y. 24 millim. 



5993. Xanthoptera furcata. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 21.) 



Xcmtlioiytera fxircata, Wlk. xii. 819 (1857). 



Head and thorax pale ochreous yellow ; palpi at sides and 

 antennge red-brown ; legs tinged with brown ; abdomen ochreous 

 Avhite slightly irrorated with brown. Fore wing brassy yellow 

 slightly irrorated with brown ; the costal edge red-brown ; the 

 median nervure and veins arising from it slightly streaked with 

 brown ; antemedial line fine, brown, strongly angled outwards on 

 median nervure and very oblique towards costa and inner margin ; 

 faint traces of the orbicular and reniform defined by rufous, the 

 former round ; postmedial line brown, very oblique from costa 

 to vein 6, where it is acutely angled outwards and met by an 

 oblique brown streak from termen just below apex, then inwardly 



