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153. Spargania approbata sp. nov. 



Foretvings : dull olive-greeu mixed with paler ; the lines black, deutate aud 

 lunnlate, more complete than in S. narangilla Dogn., and with black costal spots 

 between each line as in that sspecies ; first line from one-fourth of costa oblique to 

 median, then incurved, and again obliiiue to beyond one-third of inner margin, the 

 basal patch crossed by another similar black line ; inner edge of central taseia 

 parallel to first line and dentate ; outer edge from two-thirds of costa to two-thirds 

 of inner margin, strongly dentate, forming two small acute teeth on each side of 

 vein 6, and two larger and blunter ones on each side of vein 3, incurved beyond 

 cell ; the two edges approximating on inner margin ; a black cell-spot followed by 

 an indistinct central dark line; three black dentate lines in the marginal area 

 parallel to outer edge of central fascia, the first complete, the second much 

 interrupted, the outermost strongly zigzag, the outer teeth reaching hindmargiu ; 

 large double black spots on each side of each vein-end, followed by black spots in 

 the dark-green fringe ; all the black lines slightly edged with yellowish and pale 

 scales ; the area below the median vein flushed with purplish. 



Hindicings : dull coppery, tinged with greenish at base aud inner margin ; a 

 faintly darker snbmarginal curved line ; fringe coppery. 



Underside of both wings greenish coppery ; costa of forewings chequered with 

 pale and black dashes ; a pale blotch on costa beyond central fascia, followed by 

 two obli(ine black shades, the outer the larger ; apex paler ; marginal line finely 

 black ; fringe paler, with black spots beyond veins ; hindwings with only faint 

 traces of postmedian line and cell-spot. Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-green, 

 basal segments of abdomen varied with black ; fore and middle tibiae green, black- 

 spotted ; hind-tibiae wholly green. 



Expanse of wings : 42 mm. 



Two 6S from R. Tanampaya, Bolivia, 1894 (Garlepp). 



Allied to S. narangilla Dogn. 



154. Spargania colorifera sp. nov. 



Forewings : yellowish olive-green, suffused with darker green, and crossed by 

 numerous waved blackish lines, starting from velvety black costal spots finely 

 edged with yellowish scales ; basal patch edged by a nearly straight black line from 

 one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin, the basal area darker green aud 

 containing a black line edged with bluish white and a black spot on costa and 

 inner margin ; central fascia dark green, of uniform width, both edges waved and 

 edu-ed with bluish white, with a wavy black central line and the veins blackish, 

 each bluish white line edged by an olive-green one ; marginal area traversed by 

 three waved black lines, the first and third partially edged with yellowish scales, 

 the third preceded by bluish white scales, and by a black spot beyond cell ; a row 

 of black marginal lunulcs ; fringe with inner half olive-green, the outer half paler, 

 both chequered with darker ; cell-spot blackish. 



Hindwings : dull pink, the base and inner margin tinged with greenish fuscous; 

 traces of two dark lines on inner margin above anal angle ; marginal Innules black, 

 preceded by a smoky fuscous snbmarginal line, thickened towards apex ; fringe pale 

 yellowish green, with basal half pink and black. 



Underside of forewings dull pinkish, with the linear cell-spot and outer edge 

 of central fascia blackish, and the outer lines blackish towards costa only ; a dark 



