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Head and thorax orange-yellow ; frons metallic blue, anteriorly 

 ochreous ; vertex with a metallic-blue spot : palpi black, ochreous 

 on the outside ; antennae black, serrate and fasciculate ; legs 

 ochreous striped with black ; abdomen black above, first and 

 second segments orange-yellow, segments 4-6 with a metallic-blue 

 dorsal spot, a lateral and sublateral series of metallic-blue spots 

 reaching terminal segment, ventral surface ochreous with narrow 

 black bands. Length of fore wing 16 mm. 



Hab. French Guiana, St. Jean du Maroni, 1 <$ . 



7. Glaucostola maroniensis, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 10.) 



<3 . Upperside. — Fore wing blackish brown, greyish between 

 the veins ; two large irregularly-rounded white spots, one sub- 

 basal, the other subapical ; inner margin at the base narrowly 

 orange. Hind iving pale orange with black outer margin, which 

 is widest at angle of the wing and narrows posteriorly. 



Underside. — Fore wing with basal area white and fovea bearing 

 a tuft of white hair. Hind iving as above. 



Head orange, a black spot on vertex, frons black ; palpi black, 

 paler on outside ; antennae black, serrate and fasciculate ; tegulse 

 orange with mesial black spot ; thorax grey-black ; abdomen 

 orange, paler below, segments 5 and 6 black dorsally and later- 

 ally, a lateral row of black spots ; legs grey- black and ochreous. 

 Length of fore wing 13 mm. 



Hab. French Guiana, St. Jean du Maroni, 1 3 . 



Differs from typical Glaucostola in antenna being serrate and 

 fasciculate, and in fore wing having vein 3 from before angle of 

 cell. Near metaxantha Schs. 



8. Melese flavescens, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 11.) 



This distinct species belongs to Sect. ii. of Hampson's diagnosis, 

 and the antenna? are serrate and fasciculate. 



<5 . Upperside of fore wing fuscous-brown irrorated with 

 yellow. A yellow dot at the base, a yellow spot below the cell on 

 the submedian, another beyond it touching submedian and vein 2, 

 one at the base of cellule 2, a rounded yellow spot beyond the 

 cell in 5. Hind wing hyaline, costal and inner margins pale 

 yellow, veins yellowish, fringes yellowish white. 



Underside of fore wing paler than above, grey- white in the 

 basal area. 



Antennae brown ; palpi and lower part of frons pale orange- 

 yellow, upper part of frons fuscous, vertex yellow ; tegulae fuscous, 

 rest of thorax yellow mixed with fuscous ; abdomen yellowish 

 brown, fringed at base with yellowish-white hair; pectus and 

 fore-coxa? pale orange-yellow, femora and tibia? fuscous, tarsi 

 giey-white. Length of fore wing 17 mm. 



Hab. Argentine, September, 1 , 



