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Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



Two ? ? from Rio Demerara, British Guiana. 



Allied to nebuligera Butler and nodigera Butler. 



71. Anisodes stramineata sp. no v. 



Forewings : pale straw-colour, densely sprinkled witli brick-red andgreyisii olive 

 atoms ; the lines thickened with a greyish olive tint ; first line at one-fourth, grey- 

 tinted outwardly, preceded by a slight space free from speckles ; median shade from 

 just beyond middle of costa to middle of inner margin ; outer line from four-fifths 

 of costa to four-fifths of inner margin ; both these dentate-lunulate and grey-edged 

 inwardly, the outer line with the teeth prominently marked with blackish and 

 followed by a narrow unspeckled space ; a greyish marginal shade containing the 

 very obscure pale submarginal line ; cell-spot a flattened ring ; marginal dots dark 

 reddish black ; fringe straw-colour. 



Hindioings : the same, but the cell-spot larger, white, with a black edge ; 

 fringe with small reddish dots beyond the ends of veins as well as the spots 

 on margin. 



Underside duller ; marginal spots and outer line represented on both wings, the 

 forewings also with cell-spot and median shade, and the costa s^jeckled ; the markings 

 all dull pinkish grey. Head, thorax, and abdomen straw-colour ; palpi above rosy ; 

 face at top brownish. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



One ? from Paramba, Ecuador, 3.500 ft., dry season, April 1897 (Rosenberg). 



72. Anisodes subcarnearia sp. nov. and ab. grisea nov. 



Forewings : deep flesh-colour, much suff'used and dusted with olive ; all the 

 lines olive ; the inner and outer marked with the usual series of black vein-dots ; 

 median shade rather thick, externally snbdentate ; cell-spot round, black-edged, with 

 grey or whitish centre ; marginal dots black, small ; fringe concolorous. 



Hindicitigs : the same ; the cell-spot large and black, with a minute white 

 centre and ring of white scales round it within the black disc. 



Underside deep dull rosy ; the cell-spots blackish, linear ; fringe rosy. Face 

 dull red-brown ; palpi brighter red ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen concolorous 

 with wings. 



Expanse of wings : 26 to 28 mm. 



Two ? ? from Sao Paulo (type) and Maraval ; the latter brighter and paler red, 

 with less olive suffusion. 



A second ? from S. Paulo I shall for the present refer here as ab. grisca. Instead 

 of being red, it is dull grey, with a slight pink tinge ; cell-spots of both wings round 

 aud black, with a minute white central speck ; abdomen grey, with a dorsal row of 

 red dashes ; underside pale whitish, with a rosy flush. 



73. Anisodes subpallida sp. nov. 



Forewings : pale stone-grey, darker grey along the costa ; inner and outer lines 

 indicated by small vein-dots ; central shade obscurely darker, slightly curved round 

 the cell-spot, which is white, somewhat shining, without darker edging ; submarginal 

 line indistinctly paler, lunnlatc, preceded and followed by a darker shade, that which 



