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Expanse of wiags : 20 mm. 

 1 ?. 



This species is a wonderful mimic of some South American species of 

 Lipomelia. 



166. Eugnesia decolorata ab. incepta nov. and ab. cumulata nov. 



The c? to which I give the name incepta differs from typical decolorata Warr. 

 in that the olive of the two cross-lines has become dark grey and the black teeth 

 have developed into a black dentate line ; between 3 and 4 of each wing there 

 is a blackish bar from outer line to outer margin ; the specimen thus imitates 

 K. Uneata in appearance, but the absence of the black costa distinguishes it, as 

 well as the large black cell-spot. This S came from Biagi, along with a S and 

 3 ¥ ? of the typical form, and also 3 ? ? belonging to the aberration for which 

 I propose the name cumulata. They differ in being rather deeper ochreons, 

 with the lines more olive-green and the speckling denser and more olive ; but 

 especially in having a large blotch of red-brown and blackish scales overlaid 

 with olive on inner margin of forewing before the outer line, beyond which they 

 also stretch in two cases to the patches of the submarginal line ; in the third 

 example the blotch is limited by the outer line aud is simply red-brown, without 

 black or olive scales. 



167. Eugnesia sordidata spec. nov. and ab. solidata nov. 



Forewing : bone-colour, without any yellow admixture, as in decolorata and 

 varians, but with a powdering of rufous, aud the speckling blackish, not rufous or 

 olive ; the veins faintly brownish ; costa faintly rufous with black strigae ; lines 

 olive-grey as in decolorata, the inner more oblique outwards and the outer straighter 

 and more oblique inwards ; the base of the dark teeth on the veins being reddish ; 

 cell-spot blackish, small ; the black speckling more dense in the marginal area 

 between 3 and 4 and towards margin below costa ; black dots on margin at the 

 vein ends ; fringe ochreons. 



Hindwing : similar, thickly speckled ; the outer line curved and thin. 



Underside the same, but the speckling and lines all duller ; veins not reddish. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; shoulders darker, like costal streak. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



1 ?. 



The apex of forewing and the crenulation of hindwing are more acute than in 

 the other species. 



The ab. solidata has the lines resembling those of E. Uneata, the basal line 

 being bounded inwardly with black and the outer outwardly, to the exclusion 

 of the teeth ; in the interval between veins 3 and 4 the black speckling is denser 

 and forms a black cloud, but hardly a well-formed line, and is not shown at all 

 in the hindwing. 



The specimen, like the type, a ?, expands 36 mm., and was taken at the same 

 time and place. 



168. Eugnesia varians ab. commaculata nov. and melanospila nov. 



The ab. commaculata differs from the type form in being paler with less 

 speckling; the costa and lines all dark] grey; the outer and submarginal being 

 united below vein 4 in a large dull grey blotch, and the interrupted blotches 



