90 
EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
streak. Hind wings beneath with Oroad membranous subcostal fold 
on anterior half, concealing an expansible hairpencil. 
Brazil, Guandu, February (F. Hoffmann) ; 1 ex. (Vienna Mus.). 
TJrodus xiphura, n. sp. 
3 . 24-25 mm., £ 30 mm. Head, palpi, thorax dark bronze. 
Fore wings rather elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, 
termen rather obliquely rounded ; rather dark bronze : cilia lighter. 
Hind wings 3 2 and 3 connate; grey, thinly scaled, darker 
towards apex and along termen ; cilia grey. Genitalia 3 : uncus 
obsolete ; gnathos moderate, straight, rather broad at base and 
gradually narrowed, somewhat pointed ; valvoe long, narrow, 
upcurved, pointed. Forewings 3 beneath with 12 rather rough- 
scaled, a naked rather bright space beneath it. Hindwings 3 
beneath with thickened subcostal streak on anterior half. 
Brazil, Sta. Catharina, Jaragua (id Hoffmann) ; 3 ex. (type 
Vienna Mus.). Allied to preceding. 
Urodiis hexacentris, n. sp. 
3 .22-23 mm. Head’, palpi, thorax dark indigo-grey. Fore¬ 
wings rather elongate, costa gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, 
termen rather obliquely rounded ; dark fuscous, with slight indigo 
reflections ; six white dots, viz. one near dorsum towards base, one 
beneath fold beyond this, one about middle of wing, one below fold 
beneath this, and two transversely placed on end of cell; some¬ 
times some scattered white scales towards termen and tornal area: 
cilia bronzy-fuscous. Hindwings thinly scaled, grey, veins dark 
fuscous; apex and terminal edge suffused dark fuscous. 
Brazil, Minas Geraes, Fberaba, L ex. in my Coll.; also 2 in 
Vienna Mus., Iporanga, Sao Paulo, February, and San Bernardino, 
Paraguay, June. 
Urodus fnlminalis, n. sp. 
■3 5 . 27 mm. Head, palpi, thorax green-blackish. Forewings 
rather elongate, somewhat dilated, costa moderately arched, apex 
rounded-obtuse, termen rather obliquely rounded ; green-blackish ; 
markings pale grey or whitish-grey (by artificial light bronzy- 
ochreous) ; three rounded spots forming a slightly curved transverse 
series at 4 ; a rather narrow postmedian curved fascia cut by veins 
into six or seven spots, subdorsal spot projecting abruptly inwards ; 
a narrow fascia round apical part of costa and termen cut into 
longitudinal dashes by veins, two or three median abruptly longer: 
cilia fuscous. Hindwings thinly scaled, grey, darker and more 
densely scaled towards apex and on terminal edge : cilia grey. 
Genitalia 3 ' uncus short, rather stout, downcurved, obtuse; 
gnathos long, slender, sinuate upwards and then downwards, apex 
dilated, rounded ; valvae long, thick on basal half and rough-haired 
above, then slender and abruptly upcurved, obtuse. 
Brazil, Minas Geraes, Serra Itatiaya; 3 ex. (type Vieuna Mus.). 
