390 NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXIV. 1917. 



31. Ptychopoda xanthodeta spec. nov. 



<J, 18 mm. Face dull red. Palpus slender, with terminal joint distinct, 

 not minute ; blackened on outer side. Crown yellow, irrorated with red. 

 Antennal shaft partly darkened ; cilia tion very long. Ihorax above deep 

 yellow ; abdomen above shghtly paler ; underside .still paler. Foreleg long, 

 femur and tibia blackened on inner side ; hindtibia shghtly shorter than femur, 

 somewhat thickened, with hair-pencil, tarsus verj- slender, as long as tibia. 



Forcwirig rather broad, costa gently arched distally, apex round-pointed, 

 termen obhque, straight anteriorly, then slightly curved ; areole long, SC aris- 

 ing before its end ; white, with yellow irroration ; costal margin as far as SC 

 mostly Uver-coloured, but rather irregularly, with the extreme edge darkened ; 

 basal region mostly yellow ; hnes thick, yellow, very ill-defined, the postmedian 

 and two subterminals less so ; postmedian and proximal subterminal parallel, 

 incurved between the radials, dentate outward on R* and M', shghtly inter- 

 rupted just behind M' ; distal subterminal close to termen, almost touching it 

 in places, less thick than the ethers, becoming thinner posteriorly ; fringe mixed 

 ■with yellow, especially anteriorly. Hindwing with termen ver}' slightly con- 

 cave between the radials, otherwise fairlj- regular ; as forewing, or slightly 

 clearer, costal margin concolorous. 



Forewing beneath with shght reddish-smoky sufiusions anteriorlj% especially 

 in cell, whitish posteriorly ; two weak, ill-defined, rather thick darker Unes 

 indicated in distal area between costal margin and M'. Hindwing beneath 

 whitish, unmarked. 



San Antonio, W. Colombia, 5,800 ft., December 1907 {M. G. Palmer). Type 

 m coll. L. B. Prout. 



32. Ptychopoda calhpepla spec. nov. 



(J ?, 12-13 mm. Face and upperside of palpus purphsh. Vertex and base 

 of antenna more rosy ; antennal joints in S shghtly projecting, Ihe ciliation 

 very long and fine. Thorax in front cadmium jcHow, behind rosy ; abdomen 

 above rosy, mixed with dark plum-eolcur, sometimes wholly overlaid with the 

 latter shade ; anal extremity yellow ; underside paler. 



Forewing with SC arising before apex of areole, M' generally stalked ; 

 yellow, with a spot of deeper yellow at base ; a subbasal pink fascia, more or 

 less strongly overlaid, except at its edges, with dark plum-colour ; a large, 

 round-oval subapical patch extending from costa to M', its central part blackish, 

 mixed with iridescent blue and shghtly with pink (producing a general eii'ect 

 of dark plum-purple), its circumference geranium pink, the proportion of the 



two colours variable. Hindwmg rather narrow and elongate, SC and JP 



both stalked ; a moderately broad yellow distal border, shghtly broadest at 

 apex and extending some distance along costa ; the rest of the wing dark 

 plum-purple, bordered distally (to a variable width, correlated to the coloration 

 of the forewing) with geranium pink. 



Underside similar, though slightly paler. 



Jamaica, August 1898 (W. J. Kaye), type <J, and Moneague, January 20, 

 1905 (Lord Walsingham), paratype ?, both in coll. British Museum. Also 2 $?, 

 merely labelled " Jamaica," in coll. Tring Museum. 



