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238. Physocleora subochrea spec, nov. 



Forewing : cream-colour, tinged with ochreons ; the lines very faint, pale 

 brown, starting from grey spots on costa, the outer line marked also by grey 

 spuis nn veins 1, 3, and 4, and followed by a pale brown shade; cell-spot and 

 marginal spots grey ; fringe ochreons. 



Hindwing : with cell-spot darker ; the outer shades somewhat plainer. 



Underside of forewing greyish ochreons, of hindwing cream-colour, withont 

 any markings except the grey cell-spots. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; face and palpi dark brown ; a brown 

 spot mi anal segment of dorsum. 



Expanse of wings : 19 mm. 



1 S from Castro, Parana, S.E. Brazil, October 1902 (E. D. Jones). 



239. Physocleora taeniata spec. nov. 



Forewing : white, towards base and along costa tinged with smoky fuscous, 

 and with a few dark speckles ; basal line curved, blackish, sometimes interrupted ; 

 median line marked only by a blackish spot on costa above the black cell-spot ; 

 outer line black, with black teeth on veins, outcurved from vein 7 to snbmedian 

 fold below cell-spot, and followed by a broad brown outwardly dentate and dark- 

 edged baud ; submargiual line white, irregularly waved, preceded by a row of 

 contiguous black wedge-shaped spots between veins and followed by a dark grey 

 shade which is partially interrupted between 3 and 4 ; marginal spots black ; 

 fringe dark grey, flecked with pale. 



Hindwing : without first line ; cell-spot black and large. 



Underside of forewing diffusely black to cell-spot; marginal area beyond the 

 black outer line black ; space between white : hindwing white with round black 

 cell-spot ; a slight dark anternedian line, and macular postmedian and submarginal 

 lines ; veins towards hindmargin dark, blotched towards apex. 



Face, palpi, and forelegs blackish ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen dark grey, 

 the abdomen ringed with blackish ; anal tuft ochraceous and fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 22 nun. 



1 d from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, Pern, 6000 ft., March 1902, wet season 

 (Ockenden), type ; 1 <J from La Oroya, H. Inarnbari, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., 

 October 1904, wet season (Ockenden). 



Larger, darker, and more strongly marked than P. punctilio Schans, to which 

 it is nearly allied. 



240. Stenalcidia castaneata spec. nov. 



Forewing : pale pearly grey ; costa finely dotted with blackish, and with black 

 spots at the rise of the lines ; lines black ; first from one-fourth of costa, Bharply 

 angled on subcostal vein, then curved inwards to inner margin close to base ; 

 outer line from beyond two-thirds of costa to three-fifths of inner margin, lnnnlate- 

 deutate, angled on vein 6, then curved parallel to outer margin ; the inner line 

 is preceded below median vein, and the outer followed to vein 7 by a band of 

 chestnut-brown contiguous blotches on a creamy ground ; median line obscure and 

 interrupted, starting from a dark costal spot and approaching outer line towards 

 inner margin; submarginal line sharply toothed, the teeth above middle filled up 



