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brownish-grey spot in cell and a similar one bej'ond it. Hindwing senaihyaline 



greyish-white with very broad irregular black margins. 



Length of forewiiig : 20 mm. 



Hab. St. Laurent du Maroni, Cayenne, January 1906 (E. le Moult). 



87. Heliura fumata sj). nov. 



Unfortunately both specimens of this distinct species are badly rubbed. 



c?. Pectus whitish, underside of abdomen sooty black-brown with two white 

 bauds ; head, thorax aud antennae sooty brown-black, crimson spots on tegulae ; 



abdomen sooty brown-black with slight blue gloss. Forewing sooty brown. • 



Hindwing sooty black with two broad whitish longitudinal patches in abdominal 

 third of wing. 



Length of forewing: 20 mm. 



Bab. Pambilar, Ecuador (Flemming and Miketta) ; La Union, Rio Haacamayo, 

 Carabaya, Peru, 2000 ft., wet season, December 1904 (G. Ockenden). 



88. Heliura ockendeni sp. nov. 



S. Pectus and underside of abdomen buify yellow; frons black, vertex yellowish 

 grey, collar golden, antennae sooty black, white towards base ; thorax yellowish 

 grey with black streaks and margins, tegulae black, yellowish grev in front ; 

 abdomen first four segments black followed by three orange ones, anal segment 



black with buff dot. -Forewing white, costal and inner areas and nervnres 



yellowish buff, a subbasal black transverse band from which emanate several short 

 black lines along costa and other nervures, a black spot above and below costa, 

 a black spot in cell and one on costa aljove it, an irregular sooty black median band 

 from costa to inner margin, a similar postdiscal one from costa to vein 4, and a 

 subterminal row of sooty black spots, terminal fringe from apex to vein 4 sooty 



black. Hindwing: basal two-thirds semihyaline greyish-white, abdominal area 



mouse-grey, rest of wing sooty black. 



Length of forewing : 17 mm. 



Hab. Rio Huacamayo, Carabaya, Peru, dry season, 3100 ft., June 1904 

 (G. Ockenden). 



89. Heliura pieroides sp. nov. 



?. There appear to be three very closely allied species, two of which have 

 been much confused, but it seems that, according to available material, two have 

 no names, the third having been referred to pierm Stoll. Pectus and underside 

 of abdomen buff; head grey, vertex yellow ; antennae dark black-brown, basal 

 third of shafts white ; thorax mouse-grey with sooty black spots and streaks ; 

 tegulae sooty black with grey margins ; abdomen brown-black, a buffy yellow spot 



on two basal segments. Forewing whitish grey, nervnres more olive-Tey, 



a subbasal black narrow transverse band, a black spot on each side of vein near 

 entre, a black spot in cell and one on costa above it, a broad discal irregular sooty 

 black band at end of cell from costa to inner margin bifurcating below vein 2, 

 a row of slightly obliterated sooty black subterminal spots and a postdiscal patch 



between costa and vein 4. Hindwing sooty grey with semiliyaline whitish 



patch in and above cell. 



Length of forewing : 19 mm. 



Hab. Fonte I'oa, Upper Amazons, .\ugust 1907 (S. M. Klages). 



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