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,'. Hepialopsis sphingipeunis stpec. nov. 



Foreiring : dull luteous grey, dusted with dark or ; these darker scales form 

 lines of ill-defined spots between the veins; the spots larger and more prominent 

 in and below cell ; outer margin less dusted and more luteous ; fringe luteous grey. 



Hindwing : dark grey, with a slight rufous tinge ; a thick black snbmarginal 

 line from anal angle and two more above it and parallel ; the markings in a slight 

 degree recalling the hindwing of Sphinx Uijustri : fringe grey, speckled with black. 



Underside like npper. 



Head, palpi, shoulders, and patagia pale luteous grey : thorax and abdomen 

 darker, with blackish scales; the abdomen with light and dark longitudinal 

 streaks. 



Expanse of wings : 00 mm. 



1 ? from La Union, R. Hnaeamayo, Oarabaya, rem, 2000 ft., November 

 1904, wet season (Ockenden). 



3. Iza colorifera spec nov. 



Forewing : greenish ochreous, pink-tinged beyond middle, with faint reticu- 

 lations and some black specks ; basal area with two or three bands of grey-green, 

 the intervals paler ; a straight black bar from three-fifths of costa to three-fourths 

 of inner margin, followed by two curved series of black specks : a dark blotch at 

 anal angle; fringe double, the basal half pale rust-coloured, the outer ochreous, 

 chequered with dark beyond veins below middle. 



Hind/ring : pink, with irregular lines of black dots ; the apex with dark 

 scaling, the black bar of forewing being continued across it; fringe ochreous, with 

 black chequering. 



Underside dull pinkish green, crossed by bands of dark striae. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen greenish grey ; palpi and forelegs rufous. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



1 ? from La Oroya, P. Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., March 1905, wet season 

 (Ockenden). 



Orneostoina gen. nov. 



Forewing : with costa sinuous, straight in basal half, then protuberant, and 

 truncate before apex, which is produced to a blunt point; outer margin sinuous, 

 indented above anal angle, which is squarely lobed ; inner margin strongly sinuous, 

 broadly lobed at base, and concave between the lobes. 



Hindwing : costa as in forewing, but shouldered at base; outer margin straight 

 from below apex to anal angle, which is square. 



Abdomen of ? reaching well beyond hindwings ; antennae thick, lamellate ; 

 palpi long, porrect, slender ; tongue very feeble; no frenulum visible. 



In the forewing veins 9, 10 are stalked, 11 rising near base; 5 from lower 

 angle of cell, 6 from the upper. 



Type : Orneostoma subpulchra spec. nov. 



4. Orneostoma subpulchra spec. nov. 



Forevnng : with a pale brown subcostal streak underlined with dark, running 

 perfectly straight from base to apex ; costal area above it brownish fuscous, with 

 alternating darker streaks and paler interspaces ; below the streak the wing is 



