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on the outer half of the wing ; median three-fifths of costal area and for part 

 of cell creamy greyish buff ; a sinuate postmedian line of black dots and a 

 black dot under base of vein 2 ; lobe of inner margin hardly produced ; in 

 outer two-thuds of wing are a number of dark striae reaching from apex of 

 cell and median nervure to termen. Hindwing huffish cinnamon, a post- 

 median sinuate band consisting of an inner portion darker than rest of wing 

 and an outer one paler ; a brownish patch at tornus and traces of dark 

 half-moons along margin. 



Length of forewing : 40 mm. Expanse : 87 mm. 



Habitat. Tinguri, Carabaya, South-east Peru, 3,400 ft., August 1904 (G. 

 Ockenden), 1 $. 



5. Antiora aflSnis spec. nov. 



(J. Differs from A. subrufula Walk, in the wings being shorter and broader. 

 The forewings appear darker and more maroon, owing to the reduction of the 

 grey irroration ; the white stigma and postmedian transverse band are absent ; 

 between veins 2 and 4 is a postmedian ill-defined cloudy whitish patch. 



The hindwings differ m being quite black and having a median cloudy 

 whitish patch. 



Below entirely black, and the cloudy whitish patches on fore- and hindwings 

 much more sharply defined and whiter. 



Length of forewing : 19 mm. ExpaiLse : 43 mm. 



Habitat ?. 



6a. Cargida pyrrha intensa subsp. nov. 



Differs from pyrrha pyrrha m being much darker and in the pattern being 

 much more strongly marked. 



Habitat. Nogales, Arizona, July 1903 (Oslar), 4 <Jc?, 1 ?. 



7. Nystalea nigriplaga spec. nov. 



?. Nearest to idonea WaUi. 



Antennae dark brown ; frons and palpi wood-buff, vertex sooty grej' ; the 

 two tufts at base of antennae, the tegulae, and patagia sooty blackish grey 

 edged with huffish, the rest of thorax and abdomen dark wood-grey slightly 

 variegated with bufif. 



Forewing dark blackish wood-brown variegated all over with huffish and 

 rusty brown-buff, which on costa consists of bent streaks in basal three-fifths 

 and of square dots on outer one-fifth. A black round velvety stigma ringed 

 with huffish on lower corner of discocellulars with a dark rufous spot above 

 it and a dull sooty black quadrate spot behind it ; an oblong sooty black 

 patch extends obliquely from end of cell to termen, in this patch is an oblique 

 buff streak and some indications of huffish dots ; a row of black chevrons 



on margin and fringe of termen. Huidwings sooty black-brown ; basal half 



suffused with buff ; fringe and abdominal margin buff. 



Length of forewing : 42 mm. Expanse : 92 mm. 



Habitat. La Oroya, Rio Inambari, South-east Peru, 3,100 ft., December 

 1905 (G. Ockenden), 1 ? type ; 1 ? Santo Domingo, Carabaya, 6,500 ft., 

 December 1902 (G. Ockenden). 



