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115. Diospage engelkei spec. nov. 



cJ. Above somewhat similar to cleasa Drnce, but larger. Pectus silvei-y 

 metallic blue-green ; head, antennae, and thorax velvety black, the latter with 

 a few metallic green dots ; abdomen velvety black above, deep shining violet 



on sides, sides of basal segment silvery metallic green-blue. — Forewing deej) 



velvety olive-green. Hindwing velvety black glossed with purple, basal si.Kth 



silvery metallic green-bine. Underside of both wings deep l)lackish steel blue- 

 green, basal third silvery metallic green-blue, an irregular patch of same colour 

 at apex of cell ; underside of abdomen, except l)asal and terminal segments, 

 scarlet. 



Length of forewing : 25 mm. 



Hab. Onaca, Santa Martha, 220U ft., wet season, September— October 19Ui 

 (Eugelke). 



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116. Turuptiana affinis sjjec. nov. 



Nearest to obliqua Walk. I should have treated this insect as the Andean 

 subspecies of Walker's species, only I have examples of typical obliqua from 

 West Ecuador. 



$. Pectus orange; legs and palpi brown; head white ; antennae black ; thorax 

 chocolate brown, a white patch on patagia ; abdomen above brown except last three 



segments, sides and last three segments orange with black bands. Forewing 



white, costal, inner, and outer margins broadly chocolate-brown, a broad oblique 



band of chocolate-brown from tornns across cell to costa. Hindwing white, 



yellowish grey on abdominal area. 



? . Similar. 



Length of forewing : $ 25 mm.; ? 25 mm. 



Hub. Merida, Venezuela (Briceilo) ; Santo Domingo, Carabaya, (JUOO ft., dry 

 season, June 1902, and La Union, Rio Hnacaraayo, Carabaya, 2000 ft., wet season, 

 December 1904 (G. R. Ookenden). 



10 i$, 2 ? ?. 



IIT. Turuptiana ockendeni spec. nov. 



Nearest neurophi/Ua Walk., but much larger. 



S. Pectus orange; palpi, legs, and f'rons black; head and tegulae clay-butf, 

 latter with rufous orange margins; patagia and thorax clay-butf, inner margins of 

 former and median line of latter black ; abdomen orange, a black dorsal patch from 



fourth to eighth segments strongly glossed with metallic steel-blue. Forewing 



whitish clay-buff, veins orange, two black jmtches on costa above cell, a snbtermiual 

 black patch, and a subterminal row of oblong lilack spots on veins, some almost 

 obliterated ; a large irregular black patch from costa across apex of cell, from which 

 proceed two black lines to inner margin ; from the inner of these lines proceeds a 

 third black line obliquely to the inner margin near the base, forming a A ; sur- 

 rounding the lines and the large black patch is a broad irregnhir band of cla.y-brown, 



and the outer third of wing is moi-e or less shaded witli clay-bruwn. Hindwing : 



basal half orange, outer half deep buff, an oval black patch in cell, a black spot at 

 toruus, and two oblong black spots at termen. 



Length of forewing : 29 mm. 



Uab. Santo Domingo, Carabaya, 6U()0 ft., dry season, June I'.idl ((i. U. 

 Ockcndeii). 



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