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Smicridea saucia, n. sp. S. fusco-nigra, aureo-pilosa. Antenna? 

 nigrae. Pedes sordide testaceae, tarsis fuscescentibus. Abdomen 

 fusco-nigrum ; app. sup. maris truncatis ; app. inf. unguiformibus, in- 

 curvatis, acutis. Ala) anticae fuscae, pube aureo-brunnea dense vestitan : 

 posticaj fuliginosae, subhyalinae, iridescentes, fusco fimbriatae et ve- 

 stitae. 



Long. corp. 2 lin. (=4 mill.); exp. alar. 5| lin. ( = 12 mill.). 

 Hab. Peru {Edwards) {in mus. auct.). 



Blackish fuscous. Head clothed with golden pubescence : antennae and 

 palpi black or blackish fuscous ; the former have each joint somewhat 

 swollen internally at its apex : eyes blackish. Legs dull testaceous, 

 the tarsi slightly infuscate. Abdomen blackish : <$ app. sup. band- 

 shaped, nearly semicircular, truncate or slightly excised at the apex ; 

 app. inf. longer, claw-shaped, much incurvated, the tips acuminate and 

 acute, turned downward. 



Anterior wings fuscous, densely clothed with short golden-brown pubes- 

 cence; veins dark; the subcosta joins the costa beyond the middle; 

 the median cellule commences much before the discoidal, and extends 

 slightly beyond it. Posterior wings smoky blackish, iridescent, with 

 blackish fuscous pubescence and fringes ; the subcosta extends beyond 

 the middle of the costa. (PI. IV. fig. 20, details.) 



I possess about eight examples, taken by Mr. H. Edwards 

 in Peru, probably in the neighbourhood of Lima. 



Smicridea murina, n. sp. S. nigra. Caput cinereo-pilosum. An- 

 tennas pallide grisese, nigro annulatae. Pedes pallide flavi, flavo hirsuti. 

 Abdomen fuscum : maris appendices inferiores elongatae, graciles, 

 bis articulatse ; articulo secundo valde deorsum curvato. Alae anticae 

 aureo-murinae ; punctis nonnullis in medio fuscis ; fascia lata ante 

 apicem flavo-albida : posticse grisese, griseo-fimbriatae (<?$). 



Long. corp. 2 lin. (=4 mill.) ; exp. alar. 6| lin. ( = 15 mill.). 



Hab. Chili {Read) {in mus. auct.). 



Black. Head clothed with cinereous hairs ; those on the tubercles 

 darker : antennae pale greyish, with a distinct black ring at the apex of 

 each joint ; internally the joints bear a minute spine at the apex of 

 each : eyes brown : palpi fuscous. Legs pale yellow, clothed with 

 yellow hairs, which become dusky on the outside of the tibiae. Abdo- 

 men fuscous : in the S the inferior appendices are long and. slender, 

 two-jointed, the second joint rather long, curved strongly downward, 

 not pointed (the abdomen is injurea, so that I cannot define the gene- 

 ral arrangement of the apical parts): in the $ there is a short pro- 

 jecting lobe at the apex above, and a broadly rounded valve on each 

 side. 



Anterior wings more elongate at the apex than in the preceding species ; 

 mouse-grey, with golden pubescence ; in the middle are several darker 

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