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with black mottling* ; underside of abdomen yellowish buff; legs and palpi fuscous 

 mottled with buff. 



Expanse of wings : 80 mm. 



2 <? <? from La Oroya, R. Inambari, Pern, 3100 ft., September 1904, dry 

 season (Ockenden). 



An unusually marked species, slightly recalling some Aretidae. 



228. Physocleora albiplaga spec. nov. 



Forewitiq : blackish fuscous with the space between median and order lines 

 white; lines black, thick, starting from black costal triangles, the first obscured by 

 the dark basal suffusion, preceded below median by a brown band ; median line 

 close beyond basal ; outer line from three-fifths of costa to middle of inner margin, 

 nearly vertical to 4, then inbent, followed by a broad brown band ; submargiual line 

 grey, lunnlate, traversing the middle of the dark marginal area, which is grey 

 again along outer margin ; marginal black spots between veins, united by a black 

 line ; fringe dark flecked with paler ; the white middle band is freckled with dark 

 scales along costa and more broadly above inner margin. 



Hindi/ring : similar, but without basal line ; the white middle space black- 

 speckled throughout. 



Underside blackish fuscons, with cell-spots and outer lines shown ; the middle 

 space paler, in the forewing forming a quadrate white blotch below costa. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish fuscous ; second segment of abdomen 

 with a white ring. 



Expanse of wings : 18 — 20 mm. 



2 <SS, 2 ? ? from La Oroya, R. Inambari, ( 'arabaya, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., 

 October 1904, wet season (Ockenden), and 1 S from Tingiiri, ('arabaya, Pern, 

 3400 ft., August 1004, dry season (Ockenden). 



Allied to P. martena Schans, from Brazil, from which it is distinguished by the 

 white middle space. 



229. Physocleora bella spec. nov. 



Forewing : white ; the costa black-dotted, blackish from base to first line ; 

 lines dark, from three black costal >p<>ts at one-fourth, one-half, and three-fourths ; 

 first nearly vertical; middle fine, outcurved round the blackish cell-spot; outer 

 line marked by black teeth on veins, angled on vein 0, insinuate in submediau 

 interspace, to two-thirds of inner margin; this line is followed by a broken grey 

 shade below costa and above inner margin, and by a fuscous grey blotch between 

 veins 3 and 4 ; snbmarginal line white, ill-defined, between two dark grey diffuse 

 shades ; marginal black spots between veins ; fringe whitish, chequered with grey 

 beyond veins above middle. 



Hindwing : without first line; the cell-spot large and round, the postmediau 

 line and shade strongly outcurved beyond it. 



Underside ochreons-white ; the forewing grey-tinged from base to beyond 

 middle; the marginal border black, preceded by a pale curved space; costa at 

 middle with black dots; fringe ochreous-white ; cell-spot black: hindwing with 

 cell-spot black, and a black apical patch. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen .white, this last ringed with grey and slightly 

 tinged with ochreons ; face, palpi, and forelegs black. 



