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SuRFAMiLT ABRAXINAE. 

 3.'). Panthera semiconfluens spec nov. 



Foreiring : pale yellow, as iu P. conylomeratu Warr., with a slight olive tinge ; 

 all the margiual sjiots couflucnt, sometimes eutirely, sometimes with small 

 interspaces of yellow. 



Il/nduiiiq : uniformly pale yellow ; the ajpical spot always lengthened along 

 costa and confluent with the two margiual blotches below it. 



Head and tliorax grey ; base of patagia and centre of thorax pale yellow ; 

 abdomen grey with segmental rings yellow ; sometimes more or less yellow with 

 dark grey blotches, the last two segments always dark grey. 



Expanse of wings : -IS — 52 mm. 



10 examples, all ? ?, from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, iS.E. Peru, 05im) ft., 

 July and August 1902, dry season (Ockenden). 



Nearest to P. conglomerata Warr. from Ecuador, which has all the spots much 

 darker. 



Subfamily NEPHODIINAE. 



36. Hyalopola marginata spec nov. 



Foreicing : white, semi-transparent ; costal area above subcostal vein, hind- 

 margin and fringe, and the apex broadly slaty grey ; veins ])lainly darker ; a grey 

 band from costa before middle to middle of inner margin, where it forms a broad 

 cloud, the upper part more or less obsolete. 



llindiving : with costal area paler grey, the hindmargin and apex as in fore- 

 wing ; fringe of inner margin in both wings grey. In the dark marginal area of 

 both wings appears a faint waved paler snbmargiual cloud. 



Underside with costal and marginal areas all smoky black ; no trace of 

 transverse shade on forewinsj. 



Head and antennae blackish ; thorax and abdomen grey, the latter darker ; 

 abdomen beneath whitish, with a central dark line ; pectus and femora whitish ; 

 tibiae and tarsi black. 



Expanse of wings : 50 mm. 



1 c? from R. Colorado, Pern, October 1902 (Watkins). 



37. Myrmecophantes assimilis spec nov. 



Very near to M. fl>/tiri Druce, differing as follows : the underside of hindwing 

 is without the white snbmarginal band ; the inner margin of the same wings is 

 white, edged by a brown streak along the submedian fold ; the brown streak along 

 the cell-fold beyond cell is not continued through cell to base of wing. 



The face is black, edged laterally and below with white. 



Expanse of wings : 56 mm. 



1 J from Pozuzo, Department Huanuco, Peru (Hoffmanns). 



38. Nipteria directa si)ec nov. 



Fffrewing : very pale brownish-grey, slightly darker along costa, and more 

 broadly at apex and middle of hindmargin ; the costa and apex with obscure dark 

 striae ; a dark linear cell-mark on upper half of discocellular : a fine curved brown 



