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Forewing deep blackish chocolate sufifused with a slaty purple bloom from 

 a dusting of bluish scales, a number of more or less distinct transverse crenulate 

 and waved lines of black spots and lunules ; a buff stigma outlined in black. 



Hindwing sooty brown, basal one-third and abdominal area suffused and 



mixed with buff ; a rusty buff broken line in fringe. 



Length of forewing : 33 mm. Expanse : 75 mm. 



Habitat. Chiriqui, Panama, 1 tj. 



14a. Crinodes striolata fuscipennis subsp. nov. 



tS ?. Differ from striolata striolata from Brazil m their darker duller forewings 

 and in the hindwings being uniform grey-brown, not variegated with buff. 



Habitat. Venezuela and Costa Rica and Peru (tj'pe 3, Tinguri, Carabaya, 

 South-east Peru, August 1904, G. Ockenden), 10 specimens. 



146. Crinodes striolata insularis subsp. nov. 



<J ?. Differ from striolata strioUiia in being suffused with dark brownish 

 cinnamon which gives it a washed-out appearance. 

 Habitat. Trmidad, 10 specimens. 



15. Crinodes schausi spec. nov. 



Mr. W. Schaus was the fii\st to point out that the insect figured by Huebner 

 as the $ of hLs beskei was a distinct species which he named striolata but Mr. 

 Schaus lumped together under the name of striolata specimens with striolated 

 forewings and without ; considering the non-striolated $$ to be the $? of his 

 striolata. However, I have a big series of the non-striolated form containing 

 both SS and $9, and I consider it a good species. 



(J ?. Differ from ritsimae in the rufous chocolate not sooty black-brown 

 colour, in the long narrow not short kidney-shaped stigma and which is not 

 buff, in the more striated baso-costal region of forewing, and in the longer and 

 narrower pale wedge on inner margin. 



Habitat. Mexico and Costa Rica, 57 specimens. 



16a. Lepasta bractea gigantea subsp. nov. 



(J ?. Much larger than bractea bractea, and much more sooty grey without 

 any trace of cinnamon. 



Length of forewing, bractea bractea, <? 19 mm., $ 21 mm. ; expanse, <? 43 mm., 

 5 47 mm. 



Length of forewing, bractea gigantea, o 26 mm., ? 26 mm. ; expanse, J 58 mm., 

 ? 58 mm. 



Habitat. Santo Domingo, Carabaya, 6,500 ft., December 1902 (G. Ockenden), 

 1 ? (type) ; La Union, Rio Huacamayo, 2,000 ft., November 1904 (G. Ockenden), 

 1 c7. 



17. Tachida cossula spec. nov. 



(J ?. Antennae brown ; liead and tegulae dark cmnamon suffused with 

 sooty grey ; rest of thorax variegated with various shades of grey. 



Forewing mauve-grey clouded with various band-like suffusions of brown 



