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of the median vein, dark olive-green, bnt in S only plain at extremities, the curves 

 tilled in with whitish scales; outer line oblique and regularly Innnlate-dentate, 

 dark olive-green, from costs Bhortly before apex to four-fifths of inner margin, 



edged outwardly by a white line and preceded by a series of dark olive-green 

 Innules, separated by the veins; extreme outer margin pinkish grey, like the fringe, 

 the base of which is narrowly whitish, both strongly lnnulate-dentate ; cell-spot 

 annular, greenish, with a whitish centre. 



Eindwing : dingy whitish grey, speckled with greenish grey in ?, brownish 

 grey in <$ ; a diffuse grey cell-spot with dark grey nucleus; outer line grey, 

 dentate-lnnnlate, beyond which the marginal area is greyer. 



Underside whitish in ?, ochreons in 3, suffused with rufous-olive and 

 thickly speckled with dark green; cell-spots large, dingy green in ?, blackish in <$; 

 outer line of forewing followed by a band of reversed greenish-grey Innules 

 enclosing pale ceutres ; veins rufous towards outer margin ; inner line double ; 

 Innules before outer line greenish grey ; the underside is altogether darker in 

 the cJ. 



Thorax, face, and pectus very woolly, greenish grey; the face whiter with a 

 black line above; second and third segments of palpi black; autennae speckled 

 black and white ; abdomen pinkish white, coarsely black-mottled ; legs whitish with 

 coarse fuscous greenish mottling : hiud femur in S with dense tuft of ochreons and 

 black hairs. 



Expanse of wings : $ 48 mm. ; ? 52 mm. 



1 S from Agualaui, Carabaya, Peru, 9500 ft., August 1904, dry season 

 (Ockenden). 



1 ? from Limbaui, Carabaya, rem, 9500 ft., April 1904, dry season 

 (Ockenden). 



281. Dasystole thoracica. 



Bomoptera thoracica Wlk., Hel. xiii. p. 1007, (J (1857). 



A single d example of this species has been received from Ecuador expanding 

 34 mm. 



282. Dectochilus tristis spec. nov. 



Forewing: greyish brown, slightly speckled with dark; the lines black and 

 tine ; first from one-fourth of costa, oblique outwards and obtusely angled in cell, 

 then vertical or outwardly oblique to one-third of inner margin ; outer from four- 

 fifths of costa, oblique outwards and angled on vein 7, then slightly flexuons and 

 sometimes marked with pale spots on veins, to three-fourths of inner margin ; both 

 lines are preceded by a diffuse dark-brown shade ; cell-spot black ; submarginal 

 line brownish grey, zigzag ; fringe coiicolorous. 



Eindwing: paler; with outer line only, nearly straight, from two-thirds of 

 costa to three-fourths of inner margin ; cell-spot blackish. 



Underside greyer brown, more uniform in colour, with dark speckling ; outer 

 line and cell-spots distinct in both wings ; a submarginal cloud at costa of forewing. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings. Face, palpi, pectus, and femora 

 all very woolly. 



Expanse of wings : S 44 mm. ; ? 48 nun. 



2 6 6, 1 ? from Cushi, Iluanuco, Tern, 1900m. (Hoffmanns), 



The ? is paler, with less brown admixture throughout. 



