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65. Histixea hoffmannsi sp. nov. 



(?. Legs and head dark sooty-brown ; antennae black ; thorax dark brown 

 with indications of metallic spots, tegulae with metallic blue spots, patagia with 

 black streaks ; abdomen sooty black-brown with lateral rows of metallic blae 



spots. Forewing sooty black-lirown, two or three metallic blue spots and a 



discoidal bar and base, a salmon-pink basal streak for two-fifths of the wing above 

 subcostal, a wedge-shaped salmon-pink patch in cell, a boomerang-shaped salmon- 

 pink band below cell, and a band of salmon-pink above vein 1 from base for 

 five-sixths of its length, an oblinne creamy-buff baud beyond cell from costa to 

 almost the end of vein 3 ; hindwiug abruptly truncate, sooty-brown, apical third 

 orange except termen. 



Length of forewing : 28 — 36 mm. 



Ilab. Humaytha, Rio Madeira, Brazil, July — August 1906 (W. Hoffmanns), 

 6 c?c?. 



66. Phaio unimacula sp. nov. 



(?. Legs black, coxae white, a white band on basal part of tibiae ; palpi 

 black ; head black, two white spots on frons, one on verte.K ; antennae black ; 

 thorax black, white patches on tegulae and base of patagia, two white dots on 

 mesothorax ; abdomen, first and second segments black, first with dorsal and 

 lateral white patches, second with lateral only, remaining segments greenish 

 cupreous with black dorsal line and interspaces, bluish white lateral patches on 



segments 3 and 4, and two white subdorsal dots on anal segment. Forewing 



black-brown suffused with golden green scales, more densely on basal half of wing ; 

 hindwiug black suffused with golden green scales, less densely than forewing, a 

 subbasal oval semihyaline white spot, inner area black fringed with white. 



Length of forewing : 22 mm. 



Had. Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 6500 ft., dry season, April 1902, 

 and La Oroya, Rio Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft., wet season, March 1905 (G. R. 

 Ockenden). Type c?, Santo Domingo. 



67. Chrysocale gigas sp. nov 



S. Allied to corax Hampson, but much larger. Legs black-brown, coxae and 

 tibiae deep metallic blue, hind tarsi white ; head and tegulae black with metallic 

 blue points ; antennae black ; thorax and patagia black ; abdomen black with 



lateral metallic blue patches. Forewing black-brown densely suffused with 



dark green metallic scales, a dark bine point and a paler blue metallic suffusion 

 at base of wing ; hindwiug black, powdered slightly with green scales between 

 veins 2 and 3 and along median nervurc. 



?. Similar. 



Length of forewing : cJ 32 mm. ; ? 35 mm. 



Ilab. Santo Domingo, ('arabaya, Peru, 6000 ft., dry season, December 1901 

 (G. R. Ockenden), 1 S ; Zaniora, Ecuador, luOO— 3000 ft. (0. T. Baron), 1 ? ; 

 Bogota, 2 ? ?. Tyi)e J, Santo Domingo. 



68. Calonotos autennata sp. nov. 



c?. This is the second species of the group with enormous feathery antennae. 

 Differs from pliimulatus E. Klages in its longer and narrower wings, and in the 



