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12'.). Heterusia particolor sp. uov. 



Forewings : velvety lilack, witli f(inr small pale cream-coloured costal sjwts, the 

 first, second, and fourth giving rise to very obscure oblique grey lines ; a creamy 

 white blotch on middle of inner margin reaching to the median ; fringe black, 

 strongly chequered with white ; two pale dots on costa before apex. 



Ilimliriiiijs : black, with the white blotch of forewings extended to inner 

 margin as a slightly wider baud ; base and inner margin blackish ; cell-spot 

 small. 



Underside wliitn ; costal half of wing from base to middle with numerous black 

 strigae ; cell-spot large, black, followed by a broad black fascia containing at apex 

 an orange-red blotch marked towards base with rows of whitish scales ; costa 

 with a cream-white tooth iu the black fascia and a large white space in middle 

 above cell-spot, with two black lines at its centre. Hindwiugs white, with black 

 spots along costa and inner margin, one large spot near middle of costa ; marginal 

 fascia complete, black mottled with whitish and pearly scales, having on its inner 

 edge a curved olive-brown blotch from the costa, and along the margin from veins 

 5 to 7 a narrow orange-red one. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, sjirinkled with 

 white, the last most thickly. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



One t? from Corvico, Bolivia (Garlepp). 



Distinguished from all its allies by the bright orange-red ajiical area of the 

 underside. 



Spiloctenia gen. uov. 



Forewings : wnth costa bluntly shouldered at base, then straight ; apex bluntly 

 rounded ; hindmargin oblicjuely curved. 



Ilindicings : with hindmargin strongly rouuded, and slightly indented before 

 the anal angle, which is somewhat lobed. 



Antennae of S pectinated for two-thirds ; palpi well develojied, with second 

 joint long, obliquely inclined upwards ; third joint porrect, narrower and blunt at 

 apex; hindtibiae with four sjuirs ; tongue and frenulum present. 



Ncwation : forewings, cell not quite half as long as wing ; discocellular vertical 

 for two-thirds from the subcostal, then strongly oblique, almost parallel to median, 

 the oblique arm as long as the vertical ; first median at three-fourths, second close 

 before third ; lower radial from centre of the vertical jwrtion of discocclluhir ; veins 

 0, 7, 8, and 9 stalked : 10 and 11 stalked ; Ki anastomosing witii .S and '.', forming 

 a single areole. Ilindwings with discocellular angled, the radial from below the 

 centre ; the two subcostals stalked. 



Type : Sj/iloctenia oceUata sp. nov. 



Distinguished from TrochiodM Guen. by the pectinated antennae of i. 



l:!0. Spiloctenia ocellata sp. nov. 



Forewings : black ; the median vein white for two-thirds of cell; an oval white 

 spot beyond discocellular and a larger one obliipiely below it between veins 2 and 3; 

 an oblicpie white subajiical streak, t'ormed of four spots, the two middle ones sejiarated 

 by vein 6, large and always distinct, the two end ones small, often obscure, and 

 sometimes wanting; fringe dark, faintly clieciuered with whitish. 



lliiKliriiiys : black, with a large round central spot white, with a slight yellow 

 tinge ; fringe chequered with white, that of the inner margin white. 



