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139. Epirrhoe rufilineata sp. nov. 



Forewings : gre3-ish ochreons, slightlj' tinged with green; the markings brown- 

 black ; basal patch small with a vertical brown-black edge, the extreme base 

 remaining of the ground colour ; central fascia occupying middle third of wing, its 

 edges crenulate, the inner slightly curved, the outer nearly vertical, brown-l)lack 

 enclosing a small pale space at costa ; the pale bands preceding and following it 

 with a rufous line close to the fascia, and both as well as the central fascia itself 

 tinged with rufous towards inner margin ; submarginal line interrupted, the lunules 

 followed by small wedge-shaped blackish marks, and preceded by a black-brown 

 costal blotch, by two dark elongate marks beyond cell, and by a double sinuous 

 cloud at anal angle ; marginal line fine, black ; fringe concolorous with ground 

 colour, mottled with dark beyond veins. 



Ilindwiiigs: dingy greyish ochreons, with traces of two curved postmedian lines. 



Underside paler with central and submarginal dark grey fasciae on forewings, 

 the latter broad at costa; hindwings with two curved postmedian bauds. Face 

 and palpi brown-black : vertex, thorax, and abdomen like wings. 



Expanse of wings : 35 mm. 



One S between Chimborazo and Chimbo, July 1897 (Rosenberg). 



140. Epirrhoe subpulchrata sp. nov. 



Forewings : dull olive-green ; basal patch small, edged by a band of three 

 blackish irregularly waved lines ; central fascia with its inner band formed of four, 

 its outer of three waved and dentate blackish lines ; the inner edge waved parallel 

 to basal patch ; the outer minutely dentate below costa, insinuate beyond cell, 

 forming two prominent teeth between veins 4 and 2, and two others less prominent 

 above inner margin ; submarginal line pale, regularly lunulate outwards and 

 dentate inwards, preceded by three similarly formed darker green lines ; marginal 

 line dark, interrupted at vein ends ; cell-spot dark ; fringe green, with deeper greeu 

 chequerings beyond veins. 



Hindwings : ochreous white, tinged with grey in basal half and along inner 

 margin, with indications of two dark grey lines above anal angle ; cell-spot grey ; 

 marginal line as in forewings ; fringe ochreous white, chequered with grey. 



Underside greenish ochreous, with blackish jwstmedian and marginal fasciae, the 

 latter interrupted by a pale green spot below middle and paler at the apex; cell-spot 

 large, blackish ; hindwings yellower, with curved grey median, postmedian, and 

 submarginal lines, the space between the first two rather greyer; cell-spot dark grey. 

 Face, palpi, and thorax greenish ; abdomen cinereous ; metathoracic tuft and edges 

 of abdominal segments dark. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



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



The palpi are short, and upturned. 



Eriopygidia gen. uov. 



Agreeing with Spargania Guen. both in general appearance and structure, but 

 characterised at once by the difference in the abdomen of the i. This in Spargania 

 is short and blunt ; in Eriopygidia on the other hand it is elongate, reaching 



