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line, and reddish subterminal shade ; hind wing with two 
brown medial lines with a blackish discoidal striga on the 
inner line, a minutely waved postmedial line, and reddish 
subterminal shade. 
Hab. Colombia, Minca (//. II . Smith), 1 $ type. Exp. 
26 millim. 
Metalectra leucostrigilla, n. sp. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown mixed with 
some reddish, the metathoracic crest silvery edged with 
black, the anal tuft pale reddish at base, dark brown at 
extremity ; antennae blackish ; palpi and legs fuscous brown, 
the tibiae at extremities and tarsi ringed with whitish ; pectus 
and ventral surface of abdomen whitish tinged with brown. 
Fore wing grey tinged with rufous, the basal half suffused 
with darker brown except on costal area, a pale rufous 
streak below costa from near base to the postmedial line ; 
two dark subbasal points on costa ; antemedial line indistinct, 
brown, waved ; a small round black spot in middle of cell ; 
reniform black-brown defined by grey ; a faint sinuous 
brown medial line ; postmedial line with a dark point at 
costa, below the fascia brown defined on outer side by grey, 
very minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, 
a black-brown patch beyond it on costal area with fine white 
streaks on the veins below costa and white points on costa ; 
subterminal line diffused greyish with red-brown suffusion 
before and beyond it, incurved at discal fold ; a waved 
dark terminal line forming points at the interspaces ; cilia 
greyish chequered with brown at base. Hind wing grey- 
brown with a reddish gloss ; a waved dark terminal line ; 
cilia brownish grey. Underside of fore wing bluish grey 
tinged with red-brown, some brown marks on costa ; hind 
wing pale blue-grey, the costal area irrorated with brown, a 
curved maculate postmedial line, and rather diffused maculate 
subterminal line. 
Hab. Colombia, Choko Prov., Condoto (Spurrell), 1 $ type. 
Exp. 20 millim. 
Metalectra violascens, n. sp. 
Mf'talert m ilntatii. Draee, Biol. Centr.-Am.. Het. i. p. 104 (part.), nee Wlk. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown mixed with 
some grey ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen white 
tinged with rufous ; tarsi dark brown ringed with whitish, 
the tufts of hair from mid tibiae of male pale purplish red. 
Fore wing dark red-brown mixed with grey and a few purplish 
