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18. Gymnelia boettgeri sp. nov. 



?. Pectus orange; legs blackish olive; antennae black; Lead, thorax, and 



abdomen ^^reenish olive. Wings pale hyaline-yellow, nervnres and margins 



black, forewing costa basal two-fifths liyaline, base of forewing and inner area 

 of hindwing with tornus broadly olive, the inner area of hindwing clothed with 

 thick and long hairs. 



Length of forewing : 17 mm. 



Hah. Huancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Pern, 0000—10,000 ft. (E. Boettger), 1 ?. 



19. Gymnelia baroni sp. nov. 



$. Coxae orange-bnff, femora black tii)ped with metallic bine, tibiae orange, 

 with metallic bine bases, tarsi basal half orange, apical half Mack; antennae black; 

 frons black with crescentic orange spot ; vertex and tegnlae metallic blue edged 

 with black; patagia orange, external half black; thorax black; basal segment 

 of abdomen bull' with large black patch, rest of abdomen metallic steel-blue 

 edged with black and with broad deep orange segmental rings and a median 



dorsal row of orange spots joined to the rings. Forewing hyaline-yellow, basal 



two-fifths of costa yellow, rest black, inner margin broadly sooty brown-black, 

 onter margin black, expanding at termen ; hindwing paler hyaline-yellow, tornus 

 and onter margin black, inner area hyaline. 



Length of forewing : 24 mm. 



llab. Zamora, Ecuador, 3000— 4000 ft. (U. T. Baron), 1 S ; Huancabamba, 

 Cerro de Pasco, Peru (E. Boettger), 1 S. 



20. Gymnelia doncasteri sp. nov. 



?. Coxae of forelegs orange, tibiae and tarsi black and orange; palpi orange, 

 third joint black ; antennae black ; head orange with black patches at base of 

 antennae, tegnlae basal half black, onter half deep orange ; patagia and thorax 

 deep orange streaked with black ; abdomen deep orange broadly ringed with 



black and paired subdorsal metallic blue spots on last three segments. Forewing 



hyaline-white, nervnres and fringes black, termen black, basal half of costa 

 hyaline-yellow, basal half of inner margin broadly black with a yellow basal 

 streak ; hindwing hyaline-white, fringes black, inner area forming broad lapjiet 

 reaching two-thirds of the way to tornus black, clothed with long hair. 



Length of forewing : IT mm. 



llab. Caracas, Venezuela, 1 ?. 



21. Phoenicoprocta baeri sp. nov. 



(?. Fore coxae white with red dots at base; palfii Mack; aiiteniiae Mack, 

 tijis white ; head and tegnlae metallic blue ; thorax and abdomen black with 

 median metallic blue line, a dirty buff band on penultimate segment and anal 



tuft basally black, anteriorly dark crimson. Forewing black, basal two-thirds 



of cell and a large patch below it hyaline-white, the latter extending from base 

 along space between vein 1 and median nervure halfway to outer margin; hindwing 

 hyaline-white, costa broadly and outer third of wing black. 



Lengtli of forewiuK : 13 mm. 



llab. Fa/.cnda Espcranea, Kio Uruhu, Goyas, Brazil, TOO metres, December 

 IDOo (G. A. Baer), 1 i. 



