( =512 ) 



3ii4. Meticulodes hoffmannsi spec. nov. 



Closely allied to .1/. castraria Schaus from South Brazil, bat larger, and the 

 costa of forewing is straight throughout, whereas in castraria it is visibly inflexed 

 beyond the middle. In the forewing the inner line is much more obscure and in 

 its lower course obsolete, so that the interval between the two lines cannot be 

 called V-shaped, and remains of the brown-grey ground-colour ; the outer line 

 is fine, preceded by a slight tawny shade, concave outwards from costa to median 

 and again below, the submedian interval being marked by a rounded protuberance, 

 but otherwise without lnnules between the veins ; the pale streak, which in 

 castraria fills the whole cell to outer line, is here restricted to the cell itself, 

 at the end of which is an oval white spot containing two minute black- dots one 

 above the other ; in the hindwing the outer line is not uniformly curved, with a 

 white line following it, bat elbowed on submedian fold and above vein 4 waved, 

 and merely edged throughout witli whitish. 



Beneath the markings are much duller, especially the ferruginous costal tints. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



1 c? from Cnshi, Hminuco, Peru, 1900 m. (Hoffmanns). 



305. Microgonia mexicata ab. incolorata nov. 



Forewing : with the ground-colour very pale lilac-grey, instead of deep lilac as 

 in the type ; the marginal area olive-tinged. 



Hindwing : olive-ochreous, sometimes distinctly yellowish. 



The lines in both wings are finer, and the white spot on inner margin beyond 

 outer line of forewing generally dull and inconspicuous. 



Underside of forewing tinged with yellow from base to outer line, not merely 

 yellow towards apex only ; marginal areas shining pearly whitish. 



Thorax and abdomen cream-colour ; head and shoulders pale yellowish. 



5 SS from Sapncay, Paraguay, August and October 1901, and December 1902 

 (Foster). 



In colour approaching M. gilva Schaus ; as far as I have seen, a southern 

 form only. 



306. Microgonia mundata ab. crassior nov. 



GueneVs type of mundata was from Brazil, and, as far as 1 have seen, 

 southern specimens generally agree in being quite pale, with fine lines and no 

 markings except towards anal angle of hindwing. Examples from Peru and 

 Ecuador and other more northern localities differ in size (56 mm. instead of 

 40 mm.) and in colour, being suffused with ochraceous fawn-colour, thickly and 

 coarsely speckled with darker, instead of being pale biscuit-colour with almost 

 invisible striae ; the lines are diffuse and thick, instead of slender, the outer line 

 in both wings being sometimes double with a pale centre ; the marginal area in 

 both wings is traversed by a thick zigzag submarginal shade ; in one strongly 

 marked instance of this the pale underside bears also an irregular blackish 

 submarginal band. 



This form, which at first sight appears ijuite distinct, I propose to call 

 aberr. crassior, 



