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6* aborted, quite narrow, with a Remi-clefi sinus in outer margin ami the neuration 



distorted. 



Antennae of c? thickened, with two rows of tnberculated fascicles of cilia, 

 of ? simple ; palpi shortly porrect, thick and lilnnt, rough-scaled ; tongue and 

 frenulum present; forehead prominent. 



Neuration: forewing, cell less than half the length of wing, broad; disco- 

 cellular biconcave outwards : first median nervule at four-fifths, second from close 

 to third; lower radial from the angle of discocellular, above its middle, upper 

 from upper angle of cell; 7, 9, 10, stalked, 8 apparently missing: 11 free, 

 approximating to and sometimes touching 12 at a point: hindwing of ? with 

 costal anastomosing with subcostal for nearly whole length of cell ; 0, 7 stalked ; 

 medians as in forewing ; no radial ; of & with costal and subcostal anastomosing 

 to three-fonrths of wing, where, they separate into two down-curved nervules ; 

 median vein straight to the marginal sinuation, which is almost a cleft, no 

 median nervules visible, nor discocellular; submedian fold well developed; 

 vein 1 short. 



Type : Hemieopha xanthomelaena spec. nov. 



This partial abortion of the neuration in hindwing is, I believe, unique in 

 the Fidoniinae. 



265. Hemieopha xanthomelaena spec. nov. and ab. praefulvata nov. 



Forewing: dull fulvous; the basal third, the inner margin, and the outer 

 margin beyond outer line purplish-black, the apex itself dull fulvous ; in the 

 basal dark area is a curved dark line, and another parallel to it in middle, beyond 

 a dark cell-spot ; in the 3 this dark suffusion is much reduced and thinner, 

 being confined to the inner margin and a narrow shade beyond outer line, and 

 the three lines are clear, waved, and brown, the cell-spot remaining black ; fringe 

 dark beyond the dark shading, fulvous towards apex. 



Hindwing : wholly dull purplish black with two darker waved lines beyond 

 middle, and a dark cell-spot ; in the & these are hardly visible. 



Underside dull black ; forewing with two bright yellow spaces, one fascia- 

 form in middle, nut reaching inner margin, the other at apex ; the yellow area 

 is larger in the S , extending along costa nearly to base ; hindwing in $ dusted 

 witli yellow. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen all dark ; the palpi, base of antennae, and collar 

 fulvous- tinged, more conspicuously in $. 



Expanse of wings : $ 22 mm. ; ? 24 mm. 



2 S3, 3 ? ? ; the ? ? and 1 $ from R. Huacamayo, Carabaya, .Tune 1904, 

 and 1 <?, much worn, from La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Pern, September 1904, 

 all in the dry season at 3100 ft. (Ockenden). 



ab. praefulvata 



Along with the five examples referable to the typical form came two which 

 must be considered' as an aberration, 'praefulvata ; in these the whole of the 

 forewing beyond middle line except along inner margin, which remains dark to 

 the anal angle, is dull fulvous, with all the lines, and especially the outer line, 

 distinct ; on the underside the whole outer two-thirds of wing is deep orange- 

 fnlvons with a black conical projection from the anal angle. 



Expanse of wings: 27 mm. 



