484 NO-PITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIV. 1917. 



Forewing yellowish grey irroratecl with black strigilae which in the disc 

 also form a median and postmedian band, and a postdiscal round patch above 

 vein 5 ; a discoceUuIar black stigma. — — Huidwing semivitreous white, veins 

 and costa yellowish, a black discocellular stigma. $ Head and thorax brownish 

 cinnamon ; abdomen banded yellow and black with pink basal segment. 



Forewing brownish cinnamon marked as in 3. Hindwing rosy salmon 



colour with one larger and three small black submarginal spots as well as the 

 stigma. 



Length of forewing : S 20 mm., ? 27 mm. Expanse : (J 46 mm., ? 60 mm. 



Hnbltnt. Harrar, Abyssinia (G. Kristensen), 3 So, 1 ?. 



37. Turuptiana pellucida, sp. nov. 



o. Antemiae black ; head and thorax brownish cinnamon-buff, frous black ; 

 abdomen deep orange, four middle segments above black. 



Forewing vitreous ; base, costal area, inner margin, and above vein 1 

 brownish cinnamon ; three black sjjots in costal region, and two vertical black 



lines in the inner area. -Hindwing vitreous, abdomuial and costal area brownish 



cinnamon. 



Length of forewing : 24 mm. Expanse : 54 mm. 



Habitat. Monte Tolima, Columbia, 3,200 mm. = 10,400 ft., January 1910 

 (A. H. Fassl), 2 <Jc?. 



38. Turuptiana steinbachi, sp. nov. 



cJ?. Antennae black ; head olivaceous brown-grey ; tegulae olivaceous 

 brown-grey, rest of thorax black ; abdomen black, basal and anal segments dark 

 buff. 



Forewing differs from ohscura Schaus in the postmedian black bands being 

 much more sharply curved and angled, in the ground-colour being much darker, 



and in the antemedian black band bemg more oblique. Hindwmg in <J clear 



buff with a sooty spot above tornus and two or three minute dark dots here 

 and there, in the ? it is olive-cinnamon with double median sooty band and a 

 postdiscal row of irregular spots. 



Length of forewing : S 19 mm., $ 21 mm. Expanse : q 44 mm., $ 48 mm. 



Habitat. Tucuman, 1,100 m. = 3,575 ft., January — February 1905 (J. 

 Steinbach), 1 J, 1 ?. 



39. Turuptiana fuscescens, sp. nov. 



<J. Similar to testacea Rothsch., but larger and darker. 



Antennae black ; head buff suffused with fuscous grey-brown : tegulae basal 

 half buff, outer half fuscous grey-brown, rest of thorax sooty brown-grey ; 

 abdomen testaceous yellow, heavily clothed with dirty fuscous hairs. 



■ Forewing fuscous brown-grey with postmedian darker shadow band, nervure 



darker. Hindwing smiUar with abdominal one-third clothed with long 



darker hair. 



Length of forewing : 21 mm. Expanse : 48 mm. 



Habitat. Rio Huacamayo, Carabaya, 3,100 ft., June 1904 (G. Ockenden), 

 4 <J<J. 



