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brown scales. Primaries silvery-grey ; the costa shaded and spotted 

 with brown ; a small black mark at the base ; an inner dark brown, 

 geminate, line ; a broad outer transverse brown band, preceded by 

 velvety-black spots above and below vein 2, and also between veins 

 4 and 5, and 5 and 6 ; a terminal brown line preceded by an inter- 

 rupted blackish line ; fringe white spotted with brown. Secondaries: 

 the inner area whitish, the veins dark ; a broad marginal dark grey 

 shade narrowing at anal angle ; the extreme margin mottled with 

 white between the veins ; fringe white. In the females the second- 

 aries are darker ; the inner area somewhat tinged with buff. Under- 

 neath the female is black ; the costa near apex spotted with white ; 

 on the secondaries a whitish shade from middle of costa to anal 

 angle. 



Expanse <£ 40 m.m. ; 9 43 m.m. 



Hah. Colombia. 



Bifargia cassandra. 



Body dark grey, the collar shaded with reddish-brown. Primaries 

 white irrorated with grey and pale brown ; veins 2-10 with inter- 

 rupted black streaks ; traces of a basal, and a geminate inner, trans- 

 verse grey line ; a large reddish-brown spot at end of cell, containing 

 a darker line, and preceded and followed by a dark streak which 

 reaches costa ; a subterminal whitish shade, outwardly shaded with 

 reddish-brown above vein 4 ; a dark lunate terminal line ; fringe 

 greyish, spotted with dark brown at ends of veins. Secondaries 

 white ; a terminal dark grey line ; some dark hairs on inner margin ; 

 fringe white. 



Expanse 44 m.m. 



Hob. Merida, Venezuela. 



Ajilia, gen. no v. 



£ Antennae finely pectinated ; in the $ simple. Palpi minute. 

 Primaries long and narrow, the inner angle rounded ; no accessory 

 cell ; veins 3 and 4 from lower angle of cell, 6-10 stalked. Second- 

 aries : veins 3 and 4 from lower angle of cell ; 6 and 7 from a point ; 

 8 diverging from cell at a third from base ; the costal margin 

 straight. 



Type. A. cinerea, Schs. 

 Cinerea, Schs., sp. nov. = Cerura cinerea,, Druce (Nee 

 Walk.), Biol. Centr. Anier. Lep. Het., i, p. 241 (quoted). 

 T. xii, f. i. 



