( lOR ) 



blotch, its upper part tinged with dull fiilvons iuul sputtcd with brown ; outer area 

 dull greenish with a dark subraarginal shade, the veins across it fulvous ; apex jiale 

 greenish ochreous ; fringe brown tip]ied with wlrite. 



IliMlwing : with the line slightly auteniedian ; tlie whole wing dull fulvous 

 with olive-fuscous speckling, thickest along the submarglual shade. 



Underside flesh-coloured ochreous, striated with purple-grey in basal half; 

 a median shade and outer line (not corresponding to the lino above), bright olive- 

 brown, the latter dentate ; marginal area dark, a mixture of [luriile-grey, greenish 

 and hoary grey scales, these last forming a zigzag, jiartially interrupted, submarglual 

 line and marginal jiatches ; cell-spots black. 



Head, thorax, and ])atagia olive ; abdomen tawny sjiotted with l)iack and grey ; 

 pectus with thick woolly grey hairs ; legs tawny ochreous, black-speckled. 



?. Much brighter fulvous, dark mottled, but without ollve-greeu suffusion, 

 the line thicker, the ajjcx black ; the underside with a pinkish flush ; the outer 

 line only bright brown and very distinct : the outer margin of hindwing rich brown. 



In both sexes the underside of the wings is covered with very fine hoary down. 



Expanse of wings : S , 56 mm. ; ? , 72 mm. 



1 (J, 1 ? from Agualani, Carabaya, Peru, 'JOOU ft., December 19i)5, wet season 

 (Ockendeu). 



lu the S the apex of forewing is shortly and Ijluntly produced, the outer 

 margin at middle faintly convex; in the ? the apex is prominently produced, and 

 the outer margin protuberant at vein 4. 



The aberration obfuscata is a smaller form of the <i (-"JO mm.), very much 

 darker, and without the yellow blotch of forewlug ; taken at the same time and 

 place as the type form. 



lo;i. Perusia complicata ab. plena uov. 



Differs from tyiiical compUcatu Warr. in the basal patch and outer fascia of 

 forewing being confluent along inner margin ; their converse edges not margined 

 by double black angulated lines, but each showing within the edge traces of a 

 dark line interru])ted ; the band has a small sinus on its inner edge between :! 

 and 4 ; on the underside the jmle yellow hindwing is flusiied with dull rosy, and 

 bears a row of submarglual purple dots on veins in place of a baud. 



2 ? ? from Oconeijue, Carabaya, Pern, TUUO ft., July l'.Mi4, dry season 

 (Ockendeu). 



Iti4. Sericoptera discolor spec, no v. 



Fori'.wini/ : cream-colonr, not white; the markings as in arfti Cram. t the 

 yellow spot on subcostal vein of forewing at one-third absent. 



Head and i)aljM black ; antennae witli very short sessile fascicles of cilia. 



Expanse of wings : r)2 mm. 



2 S <S from La Oroya, K. Inambarl, S.IO. Peru, olmi ft., October 1'.I04, wet 

 season (Ockendeu). 



lo.j. Sericoptera insularis spec nov. 



Resembling 8. rfdncta in size and nuirkings, but tin? ontrv line of fon^wlng 

 ends on a distinct olive crescent before anal angle, but snuiller than that on area ; 

 the inner line is rei)resented by three distinct ollve-ycllow spots on the veins at 

 one-fifth. 



