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Sindwing : suffused with grey-brown and with some dark mottled scales 

 from base below median vein ; a pale, inwardly dark-edged, curved line from 

 before middle of costa to beyond middle of inner margin ; a row of small black 

 pale-edged lunnles from upper to below lower tooth, and traces of a dark sub- 

 marginal line on inner margin. 



Underside pale dove-grey, the forewing coarsely black-speckled. 



Thorax and abdomen like wings ; face and palpi blackish ; forelegs black with 

 pale mottling. 



Expanse of wings : 15 mm. 



1 <$ from Ocoueque, Carabaya, Peru, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season 

 (Ockendeu). 



Outer margin of forewing with minute teeth at 7, 6, and 4, faintly concave 

 between 4 and 6 : hindwiug toothed at 4 and 7, and with a slighter tooth at 6. 



18. Nyctibadistes nigrata spec. nov. 



Forewing : dull black, with no distinct markings ; cell-spot deeper black ; 

 three black spots, sometimes confluent, in a line below apex close to outer margin, 

 with a slightly paler space before them ; fringe black. 



Hindwing : with two thick dark lines ; the inner angled in middle close before 

 the outer, which is simply curved at three-fifths ; the included area black ; some 

 obscure red-brown scales along and below median vein ; a paler blotch at apical 

 angle, in one example reddish grey and prominent ; the fold and inner margin 

 pale, bone-colour. 



Underside of both wings dull black, without markings. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



2 S3 from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Peru, 3100 ft., September 1904, dry 

 season (Ockendeu). 



Forewing elongate triangular ; anal angle well marked : hindwing with costa 

 hollowed out in middle beyond a prominent rounded shoulder, the costa to apex 

 as well as the shoulder fringed; outer margin projecting at vein 7 ; no excision 

 before anal angle. 



19. Psamathia amplata spec. nov. 



Like Ps. angulata Warr., but larger ; the outer margin of forewing in both 

 sexes elbowed at vein 4 and concave between it and apex, more strongly in the 

 ? ; the lines are indistinct, except at costa ; the black point at base of wing is 

 absent ; fringe reddish brown. 



In the hindwing the outer line is followed above inner margin by three double 

 dark lunules, which are most conspicuous in the ? ? ; fringe with a pale basal 

 line. 



In both wings the central area between the lines is slightly paler, less speckled, 

 than the rest of wing ; sometimes the outer line of forewing is marked by black 

 spots above inner margin. 



Underside grey, with a pale brownish tinge and fine transverse black striae 

 in outer half. 



Face, palpi, and forelegs black-brown ; thorax and abdomen like wings. 



Expanse of wings : 40 — 44 mm. 



5 c?(J, 4 ? ? from Sapucay, Paraguay, October 1904 (Foster). 



