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4. Saccoploca excisa ab.(?) nigrosticta nov. 



Foreicing : less brown, more wood-colour, than in typical e.rcisa Warr. ; the 

 costa black ; the commencement." of all the lines at costa black-brown, the two 

 brown cross-lines less distinct ; the small dark spots forming the snbmarginal line 

 swollen into black blotches; the costal and marginal regions well sjirinklcil with 

 lustrous blue scales, as in typical cJcJ. 



liindiving : without markings except the two brown cross-lines. 



Underside paler, and thickly black-speckled ; cell-spot of forewing black. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings ; face dark brown. 



Ex2)ause of wings : 30 mm. 



1 ? from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Pern, 6000 ft., .July 1002, dry season 

 (Ockenden). 



Smaller than the type form ; the excision beneath apes of forewing is deeper, 

 and the margin below middle of wing concave, not straight. It is not, as at first 

 seemed probable, the dry-season form of excisa, as typical females are to hand, 

 taken at both seasons. 



Family GEOMETRIDAE. 

 Subfamily MECOCERATINAE. 



5. Hyphedyle divisa spec. nov. 



Foretciiiy : white, with a few blackish striae at base of costa ; a broad dull 

 red-brown stripe along middle of wing from base to hindmargin, uniting there 

 with a brown dark-speckled apical patch, the inner edge of which is curved and 

 darker ; fringe brown above vein .3, white below. 



Ilindwing : white, with sparse brownish striae at base and along inner margin, 

 and a pale brown line from anal angle to vein 4. 



Underside of forewing with the stripe smoky grey striated with brownish ; 

 the apical blotch much mixed with white scales varied with dark fuscous rather 

 coarse striae ; a darker blotch on the curved inner edge and on hindinargin below 

 apex : hindwing white with a few speckles ; the line very faint. 



Palpi fuscous ; face and vertex white with grey centre ; thorax mainly 

 fuscous, with a few whitish scales intermixed ; abdomen white, speckled with 

 fuscous towards anus ; legs white, dusted with fuscous and with the joints fuscous- 

 Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 

 1 c? from Chanchamayo, Pern (Schunke). 



Subfamily CYLLOPODINAE. 



6. Dioptis vitrifera spec. nov. 



Foi-cwing : iridescent hyaline; the costa and inner margin both narrowly 

 black ; a black bar straight from before middle of costa to anal angle, broadest 

 above the middle ; the veins in the basal half of wing blackish ; beyond the bar 

 a broad white space, all but touching costa ami hindmargin : the apex of wing 

 black, narrowing towards anal angle ; fringe black. 



Ilindwiny : wholly hyaline ; the veins black ; costal and hindmargins narrowly 

 blackish, thinning out to a jioint at anal angle. 



Underside the same, 



