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NOVITATE? ZOOLOGICAE XXIV. 1917. 



Underside nearly as in weakly marked piercei, but with the discal streak 

 of forew'ing sharply expressed. 



San Esteban, N. Venezuela, June 1909 (S. M. Klages). Type in coll. 

 Tring Museum. 



E. illineata Warr.. unknot™ to me and described from a single $ from 

 French Guiana, probably belongs to this group and not to that of roseivena 

 Prout ( = calvina Warr., nee Druce), with which its author compares it. It 

 may even be that one of my species will prove a race thereof, although as none 

 of them has the discal tuft " red-browi " and the group is evidently rich in 

 closely similar forms, this is by no means probable. 



-i. Eligavia venturii spec. nov. 



(J, 36 mm. In structure and markings akin to hrunnca Schaus. Body and 

 wings rather darker and duller. 



Foreiving rather narrower ; a small areole present, as in iiraria Guen. ; R' 

 arising less near R' than in the example of brimnea before me ; the raised ceU- 

 tuft less developed ; median area more heavily irrorated ; postmedian line less 

 acutely angled on R', less deeply incurved between this and R". 



Ocampo, El Chaco, Argentina, January 1906 (Venturi). Type in coU. 

 Tring Museum. 



Superficially recalls stigmaria Wallv. even more than brunnea Schaus, except 

 for the white cell-mark of hindwing. 



SuBFAM. HEMITHEINAE. 

 5. Racheospila rufoseriata spec. nov. 



<J, 31 mm. Face brown-red, the lower edge more rosy, a narrow obMque 

 white-yellow band at each side separating the two shades. Palpus fully one- 

 and-a-half times diameter of eye, third joint moderate, partly concealed by 

 projecting hairs of second joint ; white at base, upper part and end of second 

 joint brown-red, third joint darker and duller. Vertex white ; occiput green. 

 Antenna white proximally, tinged with brown-red distally ; pectinations about 

 twice as long as diameter of shaft. Thorax and base of abdomen green above ; 

 abdomen with four white, red-edged dorsal spots, the first large, the second 

 small and weak, the last two moderate. Foretibia and tarsus (the latter paler) 

 brownish, spotted with white ; hindtibial process reaching fully to the middle 

 of the rather long first joint of tarsus. 



Wings shaped as in alhnscriala Warr., or very slightly broader. 



Forewing with SC" free or anastomosing sUghtly with C, R' connate, M' 

 rather widely separate ; light yellowish green ; costal edge white, at proximal 

 and apical extremities slightly underhned with red ; antemedian brown-red dots 

 on SC, M and SM=, that on M farthest from base, close to origin of M' ; a moderate 

 brown-red cell-dot ; a postmedian row of browii-red vein-dots, incurved pos- 

 teriorly, that on M» 4 mm. distant from termen, sUghtly elongate ; minuter 

 white dots accompanying this series distally ; a very fine red terminal line, very 

 sHghtly interrupted at the veins ; fringe pure white proximally, dirty white 



distally. Hindwing with JI' rather widely separate ; similar to forewing, the 



postmedian dots more elongate, especially on R' iind M'. 



