OSTHOPIS. — PSEUDOSTELLA. 
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Genus OSTHOPIS, nov. 
Type, 0. exocausta. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to middle of frons, moderately scaled in front and 
slightly fringed with hair behind towards extremity, the 3rd 
short and thickly scaled ; frons smooth, with ridge of hair 
above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male with bristles 
and cilia ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and 
without crests ; build slender ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdo- 
men with slight rough hair at base of dorsum but without 
crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly 
curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of 
cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 
10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell half the length of 
wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from just 
above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 
the cell near base only. 
Osthopis exocausta, n. sp. 
Head, tegulae, and prothorax grey -brown, the rest of 
thorax and abdomen ochreous white mixed with some brown ; 
palpi and fore and mid legs dark brown. Fore wing ochreous 
yellow slightly irrorated with rufous, the terminal area 
suffused with rufous, the costa red-brown towards base ; an 
obliquely curved rufous antemedial line, incurved and with 
dark brown point on it in the cell and with dark brown spot 
at inner margin ; a dark brown discoidal point ; postmedial 
line rufous, rather oblique and slightly waved, excurved 
beyond the cell ; a diffused rufous subterminal line with a 
deep rufous shade before it on costal area, somewhat incurved 
at discal fold and below vein 2 ; a terminal series of black- 
brown points. Hmd wing ochreous white with a faint 
red -brown tinge ; a terminal series of slight brown points ; 
the cilia tinged with rufous towards apex. Underside of 
fore wing ochreous suffused with red -brown, a curved post- 
medial line, faint except towards costa and brown mark on 
costa towards apex ; hind wing ochreous yellow irrorated 
with brown on terminal half, a small brown discoidal lunule, 
and terminal series of striae. 
Hab. Brazil, Espiritu Sto., 1 £ tyP e - Exp. 22 rmllnn. 
Genus PSEUDOSTELLA, nov. 
Type, P. cyanolepia, Kaye ( Megatomis ), Trans. Ent. Soc. 
1901, p. 132, pi. v. f. 19. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the *md joint 
reaching to above vertex of head, moderately scaled in front 
