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running nearly straight and oblique outwards to below vein 4, forming a prominent 

 tooth bftweeti 3 and 4, then oblir|ne inwards to two-thirds of inner margin, the 

 oblique upper half blackish ; the fascia is tilled up with olive-grey, and contains 

 two fiuer lines and the cell-spot ; bands on either side pale, with a dark waved 

 middle line; submargiual line pale, waved, the teeth followed by dark wedge- 

 shaped marks to margin ; pairs of rather large dark spots at the vein-ends ; fringe 

 pale grev ; basal area in the unique specimen ochreons, but this apjiears the result 

 of a stain, and the natural tint was probably grey. 



llhxiirinq : smoky olive-fuscous, darker along bindmargin beyond a ]ialer 

 snbniarginal band : fringe olive-grey, the inner margin dark grey. 



Underside smoky grey: marginal bands blackish grey beyond a jialcr band; 

 cell-spots black ; no pale spots at apex or along margin. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-grey ; inner edge of patagia blackish ; 

 dorsum smoky dark grey, with base and anal tufts pale. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



1 (? from Chanchamayo, Peru (Schunke). 



The inner margin of hindwing is short and the anal angle truncated. In the 

 shape of outer edge of central fascia of forewing it agrees with //. )ii//i/l/iieata 

 Warr. from Paraguay. 



IT. Hypolepis fulva spec. nov. 



Forewhuf : greyish ochreous, tinged with bright fulvous; the basal iiatch, 

 central fascia, and marginal Innules olive-fuscous ; basal patch small, dark on 

 costa and broader, narrowed close to base on iuner margin, edged witii paler ; 

 central fascia obli(iuely sinuous, with creuulate edges, broadly interrupted by 

 fulvous along the median vein, and indented in cell on its inner edge ; above the 

 middle wholly dark, below sprinkled with whitish ; both edges margined with a 

 pale brown-edged line ; marginal lunulcs obscure, but edged inwardly with paler, 

 the ends of the veins broadly fulvous ; fringe mottled olive and fulvous. 



lUndwhig : greyish ochreons, with traces of dark central line ; fringe spotted 

 with dark. 



Underside of forewing dark grey ; the veins and a subcostal streak bright 

 fulvous ; the grey intervals towards apex dappled with ochreous and dark grey ; 

 hindwing whitish striated with fuscous ; cell-spot and interrupted outer line 

 blackish. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fulvous : antennae dark fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 'M mm. 



1 ? from Santo Domingo, Clarabaya, S.E. Peru, iJbW ft., October l'JU2, dry 

 season (Ockeuden). 



18. Hypolepis fuscata spec. nov. 



Forewhui : olive-brown, with dark fuscous suffusion ; costa tinely dotted 

 ochreous anil brown ; the central fascia bordered by two nearly straight pale 

 ochreous bands, starting from subcostal vein, the first at one-third, the second 

 from three-fourths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, slightly curving inwards ; 

 a pale spot above origin of vein 4 just beneath the dark cell-spot; basal patch 

 edged by a darker line slightly bordered with pale ; a pale oblique streak from 



