170 KOVITATBS ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 



miccularia. It is structurally like sarptarla Möschl. {ecuadorata Dogn.), and 

 not inconceivably a form thereof with the marginal blotches greatly reduced. 



Thus the name Racheolopha really belongs to the genus which I provisionally 

 called " Auophyllodes, Section II" {Gen. Ins. 129, p. 131), though recognising 

 an apparently generic distinction in the venation — SC 2 of forewing arising 

 before SC 5 . 



Oospiloma gen. nov. 



Characters of Oospila Warr., but all spurs of the hindtibia well developed. 

 DC 3 in both wings (variable in Oospila) is somewhat inbent anteriorly, then 

 oblique outward. 



Type of the genus : Oospiloma thalassina (Warr.) = Oospila t/talassina Warr. 



Here also belongs lacteguttata Warr. {Nov. Zool. xvi. 85), and probably 

 peralta Schaus {Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [8] x. 297), which, according to a figure 

 of the type, should be close to lacteguttata, if not a local race thereof. In 

 thalassina the third joint of the palpus is relatively long, in lacteguttata quite 

 small, so that it may almost be considered that the former stands near the parent 

 stock of Oospila, the latter of Progonodes ; even superficially, lacteguttata bears a 

 good deal of resemblance to Progonodes holockroa Prout. 



45. Oospila rhodophragma sp. nov. 



c?, 30 mm. Face reddish ochreous, paler on lower half. Palpus very short ; 

 ochreous, narrowly whitish beneath. Vertex snow-white. Occiput red. Antenna 

 ochreous, the shaft white proximally. Thorax above green. Abdomen above 

 narrowly green anteriorly, mixed with white posteriorly ; crests red. 



Forewing with SC 1 free, R 1 stalked, M 1 almost connate; bright apple-green, 

 opaque ; costal edge red at base, then broadly snow-white, separated from ground- 

 colour by a red streak ; cell-dot red, mixed with black ; lines obsolete ; distal 

 margin very narrowly snow-white, separated from the ground-colour by a slightly 

 crenulate red, black-mixed line, which thickens so as almost to touch the margin 

 at the vein-ends ; fringe snow-white proximally, pale yellow distally, divided in 

 places by an extremely fine reddish line, and marked opposite the veins with 



elongate, subtriangular red spots, whose apices point basewards. Hindwing 



with termen slightly waved, almost rectangularly bent at R 3 ; DC 2 slightly oblique, 

 DC 3 strongly inbent anteriorly, then oblique outward, M 1 just stalked ; cell-dot, 

 termen and fringe as on forewing. 



Underside whitish green ; costal edge of forewing broadly reddish ochreous, 

 becoming whitish distally, and with a slight reddish flush in cell ; fringes as 

 above, but not quite so bright. 



Codajas, Upper Amazon, April 1907 (S. M. Klages). Type in coll. Tring Mus. 



Very distinct from all known species. 



46. Oospila pellucida sp. nov. 



<??, 29-31 mm. Face red, rather lighter below. Palpus with third joint 

 in c? short, in ? moderately elongate ; dull red, beneath whitish. Vertex white, 

 narrowly red-edged behind. Antenna ochreous, with shaft white proximally ; 

 pectinations in ? moderately long. Thorax above green. Abdomen above pale 

 green, fading to ochreous ; crests glossy dark ruby red, mixed with some whitish 

 scales. Hindtibia in <? simple. 



