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between the veins below median, and bent in at inner margin, preceded by a deeper 

 red-brown shade and followed by a fine dark line ; median area rather darker than 

 the rest ; cell-spot hyaline white, bent in middle, and surrounded by a deeper tint ; 

 marginal area darker like the fringes; no submarginal spots. 



Hindwings : darker, dull smoky brown, showing rnfous only towards hind- 

 margin ; an obscure darker line from before anal angle to before apex. 



Underside bright rufous, speckled with grey ; inner marginal area of both 

 wings and hindmargin of forewings grey ; discal mark of forewings more developed; 

 outer line of forewings double, the inner, representing the straight line above, faint; 

 the outer finely blackish and irregular ; this on hindwings becomes whitish and 

 denticulate. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings, but less rufous ; anal 

 tuft pale. 



Expanse of wings : 36 mm. 



Two S S from Popayan, Colombia (Lehmaun). 



Between these two specimens there is as much difference in coloration as 

 between the two forms of Pergama meliss(x Druce. In the second example, for 

 which I propose the name of ab. nocturna, the ground colour is dull sombre grey, 

 with the central fascia dark fuscous grey, almost blackish, without any rufous 

 tint whatever ; and below the grey tints are much more predominant than in 

 the typical form. 



217. Azelina velutina sp. nov. 

 Forewings : dull brownish grey speckled with black scales in the S , more pearl- 

 grey in the ? ; basal line somewhat indistinct, marked by black scales, from one- 

 fifth of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, forming a blunt tooth in cell at about 

 one-third of wing, and two less prominent below the median vein ; outer line sinuous 

 from five-sixths of costa, convex above median, then concave, and again convex 

 outwards, running sharply in to middle of inner margin, finely edged throughout 

 with white, and preceded by a broad diffuse black-brown shade ; the spai:e between 

 the lines more or less suffused with fuscous brown, except the costal area, the median 

 vein standing out jjale brown ; cell-spot formed of two black dots placed obliquely 

 one above the other, distinct in ?, obscure in cJ; costa dotted with fuscous; marginal 

 area in ? beyond the white line first pearly grey with a darker line in the middle, 

 then brownish ; in the c? wholly brownish ochreous ; black submarginal spots, the 

 uppermost one tipped with white ; marginal line dark ; fringe grey with darker grey 

 centre and fine ochreous basal line. 



Hindwings : pale brownish grey in c?, pearly grey in ¥ ; outer line paler, 

 sinuous, shaped somewhat as in forewings, edged inwardly with a darker shade, 

 especially above anal angle ; an indistinct submarginal cloud ; fringe as in fore- 

 wings ; all the markings faint towards costa. 



Underside cinereous, more brownish-tinged in the 6, much speckled with dark 

 scales ; outer line of forewings blackish, denticulate ; submarginal sjjots large and 

 white; no cell-spot ; hindwings with distinct crennlate blackish outer line edged 

 with a paler more ochreous tint ; cell-spot small and annular ; a single white sub- 

 marginal spot between veins and 7. Head and thorax brownish grey or fuscous, 

 like forewings ; abdomen like hindwings. 



Expanse of wings : 35 mm. 



Two cJc?, two ? ? from Castro, Parana (E. D. Jones), the ? ? dated March and 

 November lb96, the 6 <S August and October ISOS. 



