234 NOTITATKS ZOOLOGICAE XXIV. 1917. 



Hindwing : basal half dirty buff suffused with earth-brown, outer half 



earth-brown. 



Length of forewing : 21-25 mm. Expanse : 47-56 mm. 



Habitat. La Oroya, Rio Inambari, South-east Peru, 3,100 ft., December 1905 

 (G. Ockenden), 5 S<3, type ; Rio Demerara, British Guiana, IS, 1 ?• 



II. Bardaxima molossus spec. nov. 



S. Antennae bro-wn ; palpi, head, tegulae, and centre of thorax daik 

 chocolate-brown ; a small tuft ot buffy-yellow haii- below antennae ; patagia 

 very large olive-grey, pale grey at base ; abdomen wood-brown. 



Forewing : basal two-fifths greyish wood-brown densely strigillated and 

 suffused with darker brown ; a median slightly curved double black-brown 

 transverse line, two blackish dots in median fold in basal one-fifth ; outer three- 

 fifths wood-gi-ey strigillated with yellowish brown and dark brown ; the striae 

 in some places so arranged as to form transverse bands more or less distinct ; 

 outer one-fifth of costa with double excision ; a large chestnut subapical patch. 

 Hindwing greyish wood-brown, fringe buff". 



Length of forewing: 31 mm. Expanse: 73 mm. 



Habitat. Fonte Boa, Upper Amazons, May 1906 (S. JI. Klages), 1 o. 



12. Bardaxima castaneobrunnea spec. nov. 



(J. Antennae red-brown ; head and thorax deep chocolate-rufous ; abdo- 

 men similar but washed with black. 



Forewing bright rufous chocolate, suffused here and there with purplish 

 mauve ; a number of crenulate streaks and spots more or less indistinct rufous 

 cinnamon ; a rufous cinnamon stigma at apex of cell containing two black 



lunules ; a large round ocellate subapical patch blackish chocolate. Hindwings 



blackish chocolate-brown. 



Length of forewmg : 20 mm. Expanse : 46 mm. 



Habitat. Rio Demerara, British Guiana, 1 S<S. 



13. Eragisa basifera spec nov. 



(J. Anteimae brown ; head and thorax mossy green-grey ; abdomen mouse- 

 grey suffused with pinkish cinnamon. 



Forewing mossy green-grey, a dull chestnut broad subbasal transverse 

 band edged outwardly by a triple black line, the outermost line being interrupted 



postmedian and submaiginal lines of white spots. Hindwing cream-buff 



abdominal area brownish buff ; termen and tornus suffused with cinnamon. 



Length of forewmg : 23 mm. Expanse : 52 mm. 



Habitat. Potaro, British Guiana, February— June 1908 (S. M. Klages), 

 6 S3 ; Aroewarwa Creek, Maroe\\ym Valley, Surinam, May 1905 (S. M. Klages), 

 2 (J(J ; La Union, Rio Huacamayo, Carabaya, South-east Peru, 2,000 ft., 

 December 1904 (G. Ockenden), Z <SS. Type, Potaro. 



13a;. Eragisa tenebrosa spec. nov. 



(J. Antennae strongly pectinated sooty black ; head deep blackish chocolate ; 

 thorax blackish chocolate mixed with rufous chocolate ; abdomen dirty brown- 

 buff at base and on sides of fii-st four segments. 



