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median just beyond three-fourths, slightly less oblique than termen ; a fine 

 dark terminal line, sUghtly interrupted at the veins, accompanied proximally 



by an equally fine pale line. Hindwing not bent at R' ; first line wanting ; 



cell-mark as on forewing ; postmedian line curved parallel with termen. 



Underside much paler, markings scarcely indicated, costal margin of fore- 

 wing sUghtly reddish, extreme edge more ochreous. 



San Estcban, N. Venezuela, June 1909 (S. M. Klages), 3 cJcJ in coll. Tring 

 Museum. Buenavista, E. Bolivia, 750 m., August 1906— -April 1907 (Steinbach). 

 Distinguishable at a glance by its colour and abdominal line. 



22. Semaeopus {'.) purpureoplaga spec. nov. 



(J, 30 mm. Face red, above and for a distance down the middle dark brown. 

 Palpus ochreous mixed with red, a dark mark on second joint. Antenna not 

 dentate, ciUation longer than diameter of shaft. Vertex, thorax, and abdomen 

 buff, the collar and pectus, fore- and middle-legs marked with red. Hindtibia 

 moderately long, with hair-jjencil, the upperside shghtly fringed ; tarsus strongly 

 abbreviated. 



Forewing wth costa arched ; SC" from cell, R- not noticeably before 

 middle of DC ; buff or pinkish butt', proximally vinaceous buff ; Hues rather fine, 

 raw sienna or inchning to ochreous, not reaching costa ; antemedian indistinct, 

 arising in cell, incurved behind ; median excurved beyond cell-dot, incui-ved and 

 thickened behind ; postmedian irregularly lunulate-dentate, forming a moder- 

 ately strong proximal curve from behind R= to behind M= ; cell-dot strong, black ; 

 some confluent greyish-pui-ple blotches shortly beyond the postmedian, that 

 between the radials small, one between R' and M* and one from fold to tornus 



large ; terminal hue purple, interrupted at the veins. Hindtcing with termen 



little convex, rather recalling the shape of a Leptoclenopsis ; SC separate ; first 

 line wanting ; median shade crossing (and thickened around) the cell-mark ; 

 postmedian similar to that of forewing ; purple blotches smaller and weaker ; 

 cell-dot white, shghtly elongate, very finely black-edged. 



Underside wthout markings ; forewing largely tawny or tawny-ochreous, 

 its distal and hindmargin, with the whole of the hindwing, paler and more 

 pinkish. 



"Brazil" (? Amazons). An old specimen in coll. Tring Museum. 



The shape and the hindleg more suggest a Somatina than a normal Semaeopus. 



23. Trygodes basisignata spec. nov. 



?, 31 mm. Palpus with second joint reaching well beyond frons, third joint 

 long. Antennal ciUation one-half as long as diameter of shaft. General colora- 

 tion as in pliysciata Feld. (Reise Novara, Lep. Hep. t. 128. f. 8) or niobe Druce, 

 occiput spotted wth blackish. 



Forewing with a small, blackish-green spot at extreme base just in front 

 of M, closely followed by two others (in front of and behind base of cell) ; lines 

 distinct, grey, olive-mixed ; antemedian extremely obUque outward subcostally 

 (almost parallel with costa), from SC into cell nearly vertical but shghtly den- 

 tate, obUque inward to M, nearly straight to hindmargin at two-sevenths ; a 

 conglomeration of ohve-green central spots, narrowly separated by DC' — R' 

 and by DC-"' ; anterior spot (between SC and DC — R') wedge-shaped, those 



