614 jsrocTTTiDin:. 



is darkest at midclle, slighter on costal area and towards vein 2; 

 postmedial line iudistinctly double filled in with whitish, stronglj^ 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, excurved to 

 vein '3 near termen, then oblique, some cupreous brown suffusion 

 beyond it except on inner area and some white points on eosta, the 

 apex brownish ; a triangular black patch on termen below apex 

 extending to the postmedial line at vein 6 ; a terminal series of 

 black strise ; cilia blackish with fine white line at base. Hind 

 wing pale suffused with purplish brown ; an indistinct dark dis- 

 coidal lunule : cilia white with a brown line through them ; the 

 underside purplish grey irrorated with brown, a blackish discoid al 

 lunule, postmedial line excurved and crenulate to vein 3, then in- 

 curved, some blackish lunules on termen. 



Hab. SiKHiM, 1800' {Dudgeon), 1 $ type. Exp. 30 millim. 



3492. Cliytoiiix bogotica. (Plate CXXII. fig. 9.) 

 Bryophila hogotica, Wlk. xxxv. 1931 (1866), 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and black ; tarsi 

 blackish with pale rings ; abdomen grey irrorated with brown, the 

 crests blackish. Fore wing grey irrorated with brown and black ; 

 subbasal line whitish, defined on each side by black scales and with 

 black patches before and beyond it iusubmedian interspace, oblique, 

 waved, extending to inner margin ; antemedial line double, black 

 filled in with whitish, oblique, waved ; claviform represented by a 

 minute white spot at its extremity defined by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform whitish defined by black and with some brown in centres, 

 the former oblique elliptical, some black suffusion before, between, 

 and beyond them ; postmedial line black defined by whitish on 

 outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 dentate, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved and again 

 excurved at vein 1, some slight pale points beyond it on costa ; an 

 oblique pale fascia from apex to postmedial line, the pale sub- 

 terminal line arising from it and slightly excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black points defined on inner side by a pale 

 waved line. Hind wing white tinged with brown especially on 

 terminal area; the underside white irrorated with black-brown, a 

 black discoidal lunule and curved waved postmedial line. 



Bah. Colombia, Bogota (Stevens), 1 J type. Kvj). 2G millim. 



Genus PSEUDERASTRIA, nov. 



Type, P. larentica. 



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

 vertex of bead and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long, porrect; frons 

 sjr.ooth ; eyes large, round ; antennaj of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading 

 crest; build slender ; tibiae slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal 

 crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 unastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; 11 from cell; male with a fovea in cell before middle 

 covered by a valve of scales from median nei-vuve on upperside. Hind vring 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cull ; .5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastr ymosing with the cell near base only. 



