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marginal ends of spaces above and below vein 5 whitish ; the fork between veins 

 3 and 4 on both wings is filled np with black scales. 



Underside like upper. Face and palpi black; cheeks white; thorax and abdomen 

 cinereous ; an orange spot on side of each shoulder in front ; abdomen beneath pale. 



Expanse of wings : 4U mm. 



One ? from Colombia. 



33. Tithraustes moerens sp. uov. and ab. coudensata uov. 



Foj-eivings : smoky blackish, the basal area semihyaline, with the veins black ; 

 a large irregularl)- oblong white blotch beyond cell, and a smaller round one at anal 

 angle ; two small white spots before hindmargin beyond cell. 



Hindwings : with the hindmargin broadly black ; the veins black ; a white 

 blotch beyond cell, with a fainter one below it. 



Underside similar ; the hindwings with a whitish streak on submedian fold and 

 at base of cell. Face whitish, with the centre vertically grey ; palpi externally 

 blackish ; thorax and abdomen blackish ; base of patagia yellow ; underside of 

 abdomen white. 



Expanse of wiug.s : c? 35 mm. ; ? 37 mm. 



One (?, one ?, from Cachabi, Ecuador, low country, Jan. 7th, 1S97 (Rosenberg) 

 Three <? J, two ? ? from Paramba, dated Blay 1SU7, dry season, are much more 

 suffused with smoky, all the white blotches being reduced in size ; to this aberration 

 the name condensata may by given. 



34. Tithraustes picata sp. nov. and ab. intersecta nov. 



c? Foretvings : white ; costal, inner, and hindmargins narrowly blackish : an 

 oblique blackish streak from middle of costa, including the discoeellnlar, along vein 

 3 to the hindmargin above aual angle ; vein 2 thickened towards the margin and 

 connected with 3 by a transverse streak ; apical area black, with two, sometimes 

 three, oval white spots ; the veins and folds often black. 



Ilindwinqs : with costal and hindmargins black and all the veins black. 



Underside duller. Face, palpi, and vertex white ; thorax blackish ; base of 

 patagia yellow ; abdomen blackish above, white beneath. 



? with the white spaces purplish hyaline, the large postmedian blotch alone 

 whiter and larger ; the two apical spots much reduced. 



Expanse of wings : 30-35 mm. 



Many of both sexes from Cachabi, Ecuador, low country, January 1897 

 (Rosenberg), also one S from above Chimbo, August 1807 (Rosenberg). 



ab. intersecta uov. One ? has the large white blotch much reduced, the black 

 from the apical area encroaching upon it, and the veins across it blackish, so that it 

 forms a narrow quadrilobate fascia ; the two apical spots, on the contrary, are as 

 large and as white as in the tj 6- 



Subfamily DYSPHANIINAE. 

 Xanthoxena gen. uov. 

 Foretvinqs: with costa uniformly curved; apex rounded: hindmargin strongly 

 curved, more oblique below; aual angle distinct. 



Ilindivings : with hindmargin well-rounded and faintly protuberant in middle; 

 anal ansrle rectangular. 



