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two lines the costal area is pale ochreous, widest beyond middle where it reaches 

 below vein H, and tapering to a i)oint at each end ; the second and third lines rise 

 from its lower edge, at even distances from each other and from the ontside two ; 

 the ochreous costal area is thicklv dnsted with fascons, and from the middle of costa 

 contains an oblique dark brown blotch ; fringe concolorons ; apex of wing dark. 



Ilindirings : with the first two lines continued across them, first close to base, 

 second at one-fonrth ; basal area pale, with dark speckles ; the rest of the wing dark 

 as the forewings ; a large round yellow cell-spot, with darker yellow centre. 



Underside dull pale grey, with the margins clouded with darker. Head and 

 thorax like wings ; abdomen wanting ; fillet narrowly white. 



Expanse of wings : 35 mm. 



One ? from Cachabi, Ecuador, low country, December 1896 (Eosenberg). 



247. Prochoerodes cubitata sp. nov. 



Foretvings : fawn-colour, towards the hindmargin flushed with redder fawn, 

 with slight black dusting and obscure striae ; the basal area also slightly redder- 

 tinged than the central ; lines obsciare, hardly darker than ground-colour, but 

 marked by white dashes on veins ; first curved, at one-fourth ; outer line double, 

 oblique and slightly curved, from middle of inner margin to costa just before apex ; 

 the reddish tint beyond the line runs actually to the apex, giving the appearance of 

 the line itself so running, but the white dash nearest the costa is placed before the 

 apex ; a darker rufous cloud from anal angle runs into the marginal cloud ; cell-spot 

 small, black, distinct, of raised scales ; fringe rufous fawn-colour, the tips towards 

 anal angle shining whitish. 



Hindwings : with the double line slightly antemedian and straight, just beyond 

 the black cell-spot ; an obscure and irregular dentate submarginal shade ; extreme 

 hindmargin from apex to angle at middle lilac-grey ; fringe as in forewings. 



Underside pale greyish fawn, much speckled with black, with slight rufous 

 suffusion beyond the double line, which is however not expressed, and a deeper 

 suffusion at margin in middle ; apex of forewings white ; cell-spots distinct ; fringe 

 as above. Face and palpi fuscous brown ; vertex pale grey ; thorax and abdomen 

 like wings. 



Expanse of wings: 48 mm. 



One ? from British Guiana. 



Nearest to F. incaudata Guen., but the hindwings have a distinctly produced 

 blunt tail, without jmle scaling ; forewings bluntly angled at vein 4, the apex 

 minutely produced. 



248. Spilocraspeda plana sp. nov. 



Forewings: drab, thickly dusted with black scales; first line curved, at one- 

 third, indistinct, except above inner margin, and marked by vein-dots ; second line 

 also marked only by vein-dots, lying in a straight line from costa shortly before 

 apex to inner margin at three-fourths ; fringe concolorons, with small dark spots at 

 the ends of the veins ; cell-spot l)lack. 



Hindwings : the same ; the outer line curved, and the dots indistinct. 



Underside much paler, with the dusting and cell-spots black. Head, thorax, 

 and abdomen drab, mixed with fuscous scales. 



