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some white scales before apex; marginal line black, interrupted at veins; fringe 

 chequered brown and white. 



Hindwing : white ; two antemedian thick grey lines, with the thin black cell- 

 spot between them ; two thick postmedian lines coalescing to form a brownish grey 

 shade; two submargiual dentate dark grey lines, the outer the stronger; a thick 

 black marginal line interrupted by white dots on the veins ; apical area clouded 

 with brown-grey ; fringe as in forewiug. 



Underside pale ochreous, crossed by alternate bands and lines of blackish grey ; 

 fringe mottled, ochreous and dark grey ; cell-spots black. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen luteons speckled with white ; abdomen beneath 

 pale speckled with black ; palpi yellowish buff. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



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

 (Ockenden). 



In the neighbourhood of T. conchtplicata Warr., from Mexico, but smaller and 

 browner, the underside characteristic. 



162. Tephroclystia galenaria spec. nov. 



Forewing : pale grey, crossed by darker grey lines, forming blackish dashes 

 on the veins ; the pale bands limiting the central fascia and that crossing it in 

 the middle, all plain with a thick dark-grey centre, and, like the dark lines, 

 all more waved than usual, being outcnrved in midwing ; the cell-spot dark ; 

 submargiual line regularly waved, pale grey ; the veins in outer half of wing 

 pale grey, interrupting the dark marginal line ; fringe glossy grey, dark mottled 

 in basal half beyond veins ; veins at lower end of cell marked slightly with ochreous 

 when fresh, but this tint is soon lost. 



Hindwing: paler grey, without markings towards costa; those along outer 

 margin distinct, and lunnlate-dentate, forming dark dashes on veins. 



Underside glossy, dark grey in forewing, whitish grey in hindwing, with the 

 dark and light spaces distinct. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey, varied with darker. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



1 6, 2 ? ? from Limbani, Carabaya, Pern, 9500 ft., May 1904, dry season 

 (Ockenden) ; also 1 c? from Cushi, Hnanuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns). 



Wings broad ; the uniform dark and light grey speckling is suggestive of the 

 dappled feathers of the guinea fowl. 



163. Tephroclystia lugubris spec. nov. 



Forewing : dark fuscous, with three pale lines across wing, each with a thick 

 middle thread, one on each side of central fascia, and one in its middle, the last 

 the whitest ; submargiual line waved, whitish, indistinct ; cell-spot dark, oblique, 

 preceded by whitish scales ; a dark marginal line interrupted by dots of white 

 scales at the veins ; fringe dark fuscous, mottled with darker, and with a pale base. 



Hindwing : paler, crossed by alternate thick and thin dark grey lines, which 

 are strongest on inner margin, the costal half being blurred grey. 



Underside of forewing blurred dark grey ; the lines marked on costa ; 

 submargiual line pale ; fringe cljeqneretl with white : hindwing whitish, crossed 

 by six dark grey lines. 



