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EXOTIC MICKOLEFIDOPTERA. 
beyond cell is an irregular shining milk-white raised transverse 
striga, two similar dots obliquely placed before and above it, and 
two short fine nearly parallel lines beneath median portion of 
patch, anterior extremity of lower bent down; posterior fourth 
of costa suffused light yellow-greyish : cilia white, on costa grey. 
Hind wings pale ochreous-yellowish, somewhat deeper towards 
apex; cilia whitish-yellowish. 
Colombia, Bio Negro, 1650 feet, April; 1 ex. This striking 
insect is an interesting example of the type imitative of birds’ 
•excrement; it is difficult to believe that the raised white dots and 
streaks are not fluid. 
Ptilogenes brachyplaca, n. sp. 
S . 20-21 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint and 
extreme tip of terminal fuscous. Thorax whitish-ochreous, more 
or less infuscated on dorsum, a posterior purple-blackish spot. 
Forewings slightly dilated, ternien vertical; whitish-ochreous; 
costal edge more ochieous, grey at base; a subquadrate purple- 
blackish blotch on dorsum towards base, margined above with 
brown suffusion; a purplish-grey mark on cost a at a small 
triangular spot on middle of costa, 3 or 4 marks in a subcostal 
senes beneath these, and a shadowy mark indicating termination 
of series from dorsum at 4; some brownish-ochreous suffusion 
above middle of disc, and another cloud beyond blackish second 
discal stigma; a tiattened-triangular purplish-grey spot on costa 
about |, whence a curved grey line becoming a series of dots 
below middle runs to tornus; apical and terminal edge ochreous 
with a purplish-grey waved line round apex becoming dotted 
below: cilia purplish-grey, towards tornus whitish. Hindwings 
(without subcostal hairpencil) 3 and 4 connate: light grey suffused 
whitish-ochreous towards base; cilia ochreous-whitish, a faint 
greyish subbasal line. 
Brazil, Teffe, January ( Parish ); French Gijiana, B. ITaroni; 
2 ex. Excessively like palliata, but certainly distinct by absence 
of subcostal hairpencil of hindwings ; the dorsal blotch of fore¬ 
wings is shorter and subquadrate (in palliata oblong), and the 
thorax in palliata is wholly blackish except anterior margin, but 
these differences might naturally be thought varietal. Walsing- 
ham’s palliata is certainly as identified, for he mentions the 
hairpencil (his figure and description are poor, probably from a 
worn example; I have a good series); and also Busek’s synonym 
carbonifera , for (though overlooking the hairpencil) he correctly 
describes the thorax. 
Ptilogenes funicularis, n. sp. 
2 . 23 mm. Head light brownish, frontal hairs erect, face 
whitish. Palpi whitish, second joint with fuscous subapical ring, 
terminal joint with base and supramedian ring dark fuscous. 
Thorax brownish. Eorewings widest before middle, costa strongly 
arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen rounded, vertical; light 
