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Vertex, thorax, and abdomen slaty grey ; face and palpi black-brown. 

 Expanse of wings : 24 men. 



1 ? from Tncnman, Argentina, 1100 in. January — February 1905 (Steinbach). 

 Superficially this species much resembles E. ezcoria Waorr. from Mexico, 

 but really the two are quite different 



11. Epiplema colurnbicolor spec. uov. 



Foretoing : pale dove-colour ; the costa Bpotted with black: the lines hardly 

 visible ; from a blackish spot at one-third a faint shade runs outwards to cell and 

 then inwards to one-third of inner margin, with a dark dot on snbmedian told ; 

 from costa at two-thirds a dull grey shade rises, ending on inner margin beyond 

 middle in a rounded dark blotch ; from the anal angle a blackish shade rises, 

 leaching vein 4 ; at the excision a chestnut-brown shade edged inwardly by two 

 small black lnuules ; fringe dove-coloured, mixed witli brown above. 



Hind wing : speckled with dark, and with a faint rufous tinge; two rufous 

 lines, the antemedian curved, the postmedian angled on vein 4 ; a rufons shade 

 before margin from upper to lower tooth, below which there is a slight brown 

 spot. 



Underside of forewing clouded with grey and with coarse brown-black 

 speckling ; the black shade from anal angle shown ; hiudwing paler, black-speckled 

 only along costa and outer margin. 



Face and palpi black-brown : thorax and abdomen like wings, the latter much 

 speckled with blackish. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



1 S from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Peru, 3100 ft., .September 19U4, dry season 

 (Ockenden). 



Forewing excised between 4 and 6, the apex depressed 'and bluntly rounded ; 

 hiudwing toothed at veins 4 and 7, and excised between anal angle and vein 2. 



12. Epiplema ignefumata spec. nov. 



Forewing : black-brown ; the lines black ; first from one-third of costa to 

 near middle of inner margin, sharply angled outwards on each fold; outer line 

 from three-fourths of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, angled outwards on 

 vein 4, concave ou each side : the included space blackish ; both lines, where they 

 diverge in snbmedian interval, marked with velvety black; outer margin black, 

 edged inwardly from vein 7 to 3 by a velvety black bracket-shaped mark ; the 

 slightly paler browner spaces on each side of the central fascia show traces of 

 dark striae. 



Hiudwing : with central fascia purplish black, both edges acutely angled 

 outwards on vein 4, the outer followed, as it is also in the forewing, by a pale 

 dark-edged line ; marginal area black along veins from before apex to lower 

 tooth, and with black striatious below it ; a black spot below each tooth and two 

 smaller spots between ; the brown on each side of central fascia much paler than 

 in forewing, tinged with blackish again at base. 



Underside dull black, with a submarginal fascia in forewing and a marginal 

 one in hiudwing deep ferruginous speckled with dark. 



Face and palpi black ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen black-brown. 



