PHALONIADiE. 
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Hindwings whitish-grey mottled grey ; cilia grey-whitish, a light 
oclireous-grey subbasal shade. 
Colombia, Mt. Tolima, 12,500 feet, December; 3 ex. 
Phalonia melanothicta, n. sp. 
cJ. 12 mm. Head light greyish-ochreous. Thorax greyish- 
ochreous suffused dark grey. Forewings elongate, somewhat 
dilated, term on rather obliquely rounded ; whitish-ochreous ; basal 
patch obscurely ockreous tinged grey, coslal edge blackish ; central 
fascia rather narrow, parallel to termen, slightly angulated near 
costa, brownish-ochreous, costal edge blackish, and forming a 
quadrate blackish spot on dorsum; a small triangular brownish- 
ochreous prsetornal spot blackish on dorsum ; a suffused light 
ochreous spot beyond this beneath middle ; a narrow light 
brownish-ochreous fascia from costa at | to termen near tornus : 
cilia whitish-ochreous. Hindwings grey ; cilia grev-whitish, a 
grey subbasal shade. 
China, Shanghai, September; 1 ex. (Coll. Caradja). Nearest 
scdebrana. 
Plitheochroa ersodes, n. sp. 
$ . 22 mm. Head, palpi, thorax ockreous-whitish. Forewings 
3 and 4 stalked, 7 to costa, numerous irregular tufts of scales in 
disc ; whitish-ochreous, scattered scales showing white reflections 
in disc ; costa irregularly spotted fuscous; some brownish suffusion 
towards costa at | and before middle ; minute dark fuscous dots 
on dorsal edge ; a subcrescentic black transverse mark in disc 
at J, some brownish suffusion above and below it; some white 
suffusion towards costa about |; a brownish streak slightly 
sprinkled blackish from beneath costa at becoming furcate and 
running to termen above and below middle; small brownish 
marginal spots nearly confluent above and below apex: cilia 
whitish-ochreous, indistinctly barred brownish. Hindwings 3 and 
4 connate, 6 and 7 stalked; grey-whitish closely mottled grey; 
cilia whitish, base obscurely spotted grey. 
Colombia, San Antonio, 6600 feet, February ; 1 ex. 
Ptheochroa substructa, n. sp. 
5 . 17 mm. Head, thorax white, shoulders fuscous. Palpi 
fuscous, terminal joint white. Porewings 3 and 4 separate, 7 to 
costa ; white ; a dark grey costal streak from base to , marked with 
several cloudy dark fuscous strigulae, at base connected with a streak 
of dark grey suffusion, dotted blackish on dorsal edge, extending along 
dorsum to tornus and expanded on posterior half into a rounded 
patch reaching more than half across wing, a triangular black 
discal spot resting on upper margin of this before middle of wing; 
a light grey rather curved striga from disc at about | to tornus ; 
apical area beyond a rather curved line from | of costa to termen 
above tornus occupied by several suffused grey streaks and small 
marks of blackish irroration* cilia white, irregularly barred light 
