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34. Oospila ruptimacula sp. nov. 



Foreirings : grass greeu ; thu c.osta orange-pink with dense jinrplish black 

 striae ; bone-colonred blotches tinged with flesh-colour and speckled with purple at 

 apex and anal angle, as in albicoma Feld. and conrini/a Warr., but different in shape ; 

 the apical blotch narrowly edged with greyish purple, which forms three slightly 

 rounded lobes from apex to vein 4, along which it runs nearly to margin, connected 

 by a narrow greyish pnrple marginal streak with the anal blotch, which reaches 

 half-way along inner margin and does not extend beyond vein 2, except towards the 

 cell, where it forms a rounded projection touching end of cell : fringe greyish purple, 

 except beyond apical blotch, where it is bone-coloured ; dark marginal spots between 

 the veins, which are plain only in the blotches. 



Himlwings : with three bone-coloured blotches ; one oval and small at apex 

 between veins 7 and 8, a large horseshoe-shaped one between veins 4 and 6, and an 

 elongated blotch along inner margin to one-third from base, bounded above by 

 vein 2, except for a projection like that in the forewings, but smaller ; the apical 

 blotch is connected with the middle one by a dark-edged pale patch, and the middle 

 one with the anal blotch by a greyish purple streak, as in forewings ; a silvery white 

 spot at each end of the discoccllular and one at the base of the wing ; a continuous 

 purple marginal lino, crenulate above middle ; fringe bone-coloured, chequered 

 with purple. 



Underside pale whitish green, with the pale blotches shown in transparence ; 

 base of costa of forewings bright rufous ; fringe purplish. Palpi externally, face, 

 and forelegs red; fillet, base, and shaft of antennae snow-white; vertex, thorax, 

 and ])atagia green ; abdomen bone-colour, with reddish marks along dorsum. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



One cJ from Paramba, Ecuador, November to December 1898. 



Agrees in point of size with albicoma Feld., but in markings more resembles 

 concinna Warr. 



35. Phrudocentra pupillata ab. submaculata nov. 



Differs from the type form in having a broad blackish cloud on the underside of 

 hindwings, reaching from vein 5 to the submedian fold. 

 One cJ from Colombia. 



30. Racheospila astraeoides sp. nov. 



Forewings: pale semi-hyaline green; the costal area yellowish, the extreme 

 edge snow-white ; two fine pale lines, one curved at one-third, the other from three- 

 fourths of costa to four-fifths of inner margin, delicately luuulate and dentate 

 externally ; a small reddish cell spot ; marginal line thick, deep red, interrupted by 

 the pale veins, and curved shortly round the apex beneath tlie pale costal area ; 

 fringe white with fine reddish mottliugs. 



Himlwings : with outer line only ; an oblong red-brown patch on inner margin, 

 narrowed to base and anal angle, edged inwardly with yellowish ; marginal red line 

 swollen at each end ; fringe of inner margin on lower half red-brown, on upjier half 

 white. 



Underside whitish green ; the marginal line indistinct. 



Face above rosy, with two dull green patches ; below pale green with two rosy 



