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brownish, sprinkled violet-fuscous and dark fuscous, especially on 
edges of veins; costal edge white with about ten small elongate 
dark fuscous spots or marks ; some irregular dark streaking in cell, 
and an indistinct irregular dentate rather oblique dark fuscous 
line at about P; a terminal series of dark fuscous marks preceded 
by whitish suffusion between veins: cilia light brownish, with 
traces of darker and paler bars. Hindwings 3 and 4 connate; 
rather .dark grey, apical edge whitish; cilia grey, tips whitish. 
French Guiana, R. Maroni; 1 ex. 
Ptilogenes melanometra, n. sp. 
$ . 23 mm. Head white. Palpi white, basal half of second 
joint, and base and subapical ring of terminal joint dark fuscous. 
Thorax white sprinkled grey. Forewings slightly dilated, termen 
slightly oblique ; white, slightly speckled grey ; markings blackish ; 
a very short oblique streak from base of costa; transverse spots on 
costa about middle, and |, first rather oblique, pointing to a 
spot in disc, another spot in disc at |; a few undefined dots of 
grey and blackish scales indicating two irregular sinuate-curved 
series rising from second and third costal spots; a praemarginal 
series of small spots round apex and termen : cilia white, some 
indistinct greyish dots in a median series. Hindwings 3 and 4 
short-stalked; whitish-grey; cilia white, a light grey subbasal 
line. 
Colombia, San Antonio, 6600 feet, February ; 1 ex. 
Ptilogenes chionoptila, n. sp. 
c 5 • 19 mm. Plead white slightly touched pale grey. Palpi 
stout, white, basal | of second joint dark fuscous, base of terminal 
joint and traces of subapical ring grey. Thorax white sprinkled 
light grey. Forewings hardly dilated, apex rounded, termen 
slightly oblique; white thinly speckled dark fuscous; markings 
fuscous suffusedly irrorated black; a strigula from costa near base, 
and small dot beneath it; spots on costa at middle, and |, first 
small, sending a somewhat curved series of small indistinct spots 
greyish below middle to near dcrsum at |-, second scarcely larger, 
third moderately large, from behind second discal white ridge-tuft 
a rather broad fasciate streak of suffusion running to dorsum 
before tornus and uniting in disc with a slightly curved shade 
from third costal spot; a curved interrupted subterminal shade; 
a marginal series of dots round apex and termen : cilia white, an 
interrupted median series of dark fuscous points. Hindwings 
3 and 4 connate; grey; cilia whitish-grey, a grey subbasal 
shade. 
Brazil, Teffe, December ( Parish) ; 1 ex. 
Ptilogenes stagnicolor, n. sp. 
<S . 18-19 mm. Head, palpi, thorax white tinged grey-greenish, 
second joint of palpi with dark fuscous streak on basal g. Fore¬ 
wings somewhat dilated, apex rounded, termen somewhat obliquely 
