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22. Rhescyntis cymonia spec, nov. 



3 ? . Body ami legs blackish brown, somewhat russet in pale specimens; 



soles of tarsi clayish ; antenna lmft' ; stigma-spots of abdomen creamy buff. 



Upperside : forewing blackish brown, shaded with walnnt-brown ; the costal 

 area from base to discal line greyish, speckled with brown-black, this area almost 

 extending to hindmargin at base, the wider basal portion being limited by the 

 antemedian liue; an elliptical black discocellnlar spot with grey centre; a black 

 postdiscal line, strongly excnrved below costa, twice angulate below middle, 

 bearing on outer side whitish spots on the veins, which spots form a discon- 

 tinuous line in pale specimens ; a black snbapical spot contiguous with a doable 

 drab-colonred patch, which is followed backwards by a white-edged, drab, 

 undulate line, the white borders extending also partly around the snbapical 

 patches; apex reddish; an oblique reddish brown streak below apex, widened to 

 a large submarginal patch, the marginal area being almost entirely of the colonr 

 of this patch, or the patch gradually fading away ; between the postdiscal line 

 and cell there is another line, which is broad, beiug distinct only at costal margin 



in the dark specimens. Hindwing : a blackish brown broad line beyond middle, 



a black postdiscal line with pale outer border, angulate below third radial ; a 

 more or less continuous row of black, white-edged submarginal spots ; disc 

 blackish between the discal and postdiscal lines ; a blackish discocellnlar spot ; 

 tail triangular iu S, resembling that of 7?. armida Cram., indicated by a small 

 notch in ? . 



Underside blackish, more or less pale brown from base to discal line, irrorated 

 with blackish all over ; a broad blackish discal line across both wings, followed 

 by a more or less indistinct postdiscal liue ; in submarginal area dispersed white 

 scales corresponding to the white borders of the submarginal markings of upper- 

 side, beiug more distinct on hind- than on forewing, and easily rubbed away ; 

 the area proximally to these markings washed with white, especially on hindwing. 



Length of forewing : S 65 — 70 mm. ; ? 70 — 78 mm. 



Ilab. S. Domingo, Carabaya, Sonth-East Peru, 6000 ft., and Chirimayo, 

 South-East Peru, 1000 ft. (G. R. Ockenden), also from Marcapata and Chau- 

 chamayo. 



3c?c?, 2? ?. 



Nearest to sylla Cram. (1779) ; smaller, forewing proportionately broader, the 

 postdiscal line of forewing continued to costa, more strongly biangnlate below 

 middle, etc. 



23. Rhescyntis ponderosa guianensis subsp. nov. 



t?. The lines iu basal half of forewing thinner than in E. ponderosa pon- 

 derosa Rothsch. (1895), described as Arsenura ; the postdiscal line double; the 

 interspace between this liue and the discal one wider than the marginal area. 



Halt. British Gniaua. 



1 <J. 



The species is nearest to It. batesi Feld., but is easily recognised by tin- 

 large buff spot situated on the (brewing in front of the third radial vein within 

 the postdiscal double-line. 



