( 10^ ) 



that liy a ^^Iiglltly paler (nie ; (inter line I'niiu oiie-lialf of co.sta, outwardly 

 oliliiiue to vein .J, then vertical ami waved, but very obscure ; between these 

 lines a narrow waved brown baud ; subiuarginal line dentate, edged with white, 

 especially below costa, and preceded by a darker shade, the teeth below costa 

 filled in with blackish ; on the costa and in subnicdian interval the dark shade 

 is preceded by a jialer blotch ; the blackish marginal liniiiles arc counected with 

 the subiuarginal line by obscure dark dashes. 



JlimhriiKj : dull fuscous, with indistinct darker post median line and sub- 

 ruarginal shade. 



Underside dii'ty greyish, with obscurely darker lines ami shades ; the hindwing 

 with antemedian and jiostmedian lines and a cell-spot between them. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dull olive-t'uscons. 



Expanse of wings : 3.) mm. 



1 cJ from Quevedo, VV. Ecuador (von Buchwald). 



The aberration trimaculata is much darker, and marked by three cream-white 

 blotches : the first an oblique bar from base of cell to inner margin, corresimnding 

 to the slightly paler band of the type ; the second and third correspond to tiie 

 pale blotches j)rec('diiig submarginal sluvle on snbmedian interval and at costa ; 

 the last connected with the white blotch beyond the line ; the hindwing is 

 uniform blackish fuscous. The single example, which expands 40 mm. against 

 SG mm. of the ty])e, is also from Quevedo, W. Ecuador. 



S9. Ischnopteris mediosecta spec. nov. 



Forew'uig : dull green, varied with brown and striated densely witii darker ; 

 the brown tints chiefly along costa and snbmedian interval ; inner line blackish, 

 oblii|ue and diffuse, from one-fifth of costa to one-third of inner margin, con- 

 taining a black spot on snbmedian fold ; in the middle of the wing a nearly 

 vertical brownish fuscous fascia, slightly broader at costa and constricted in 

 middle, containing two black spots on snbmedian fold; submarginal line acutely 

 dentate towards costa, the teeth tilled in with black and followed by greenish 

 white, represented by an oblong white blotch across snbmedian interval preceded 

 by a scpiare black spot, and interrupted at middle by an oblique greenish grey 

 blotch running to outer margin at vein 3 ; black marginal triangles between 

 the veins ; fringe dark green. 



Hi ml If! Ill) : deep yellow, witii bro.ad bla('kish outer and inner margin, the 

 latter ditl'uscly edged internally, I lie former with a yellow spot between 

 veins 3 and 4 ; traces of an interrupted dark central line. 



Underside dull greenish fnsi'ons, darkening before th<' paler outer margin, 

 the costa yellowish ; hindwing dull yellow, with the markings as above. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen greenish fuscous ; anal tuft and venter yellowish. 



Expanse of wings : 33 mm. 



1 c? from La Union, R. Huacamayo, C'araliaya, Tern, I'liiiii ft., Deiember 1'.im4, 

 wet season (Ockenden). 



I'll. Ischnopteris pronubata I'eld. 



Felder's type was a ? ; the sexes differ, much in the same way as those of 

 /. catocalata Guen., the S having a large tooth of hairs before middle of inner 

 margin, and with the anal angle of hindwing truncate ; beyond the greenish 



