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44. Lipomelia rubicunda spfc. uov. 



Forewiny : jiale livcr-culiuir, tiiig;ed with reddish ; costa at hase iiroadly black- 

 browu ; coil-spot silvery white with black edj;e ; a reddish median line from middle 

 of costa to middle of inner margin, straight to median vein tonrhing the cell-sj)Ot, 

 then siuuoas ; outer Hue from two-thirds of costa, strongly (mt< nrved to vein 2, then 

 again onteurved and vertical to inner margin before anal angle ; a large hoary grey 

 blotch at apex with dark curved inner edge from costa to vein 5, its centre reddish 

 and the marginal spots in it large and black ; a similar but much smaller blotch at 

 anal angle ; marginal spots between grey ; fringe reddish. 



Hindwing : like forewiug. 



Underside bright vinous, with blackish marginal borders broadening towards 

 apex of each wing, the black extending into the frinires. 



Expanse of wings : 25 mm. 



1 ? from Ariajiite Valley, Trinidad, June 19U2. 



45. Ptychopoda informipennis spec. nuv. 



Forewing : glossy olive-ochreous, flushed with pinkish and finely and sparsely 

 speckled ; costa pink-tinged : a faint diflnse pinkish shade, only clearly visible on 

 inner margin, denotes the inner and median lines ; onter line snbmarginal, finely 

 blackish, indented beyond cell and across submedian fold, oiitcurved between, from 

 five-sixths of costa to just before anal angle ; the marginal area pinkish lilac ; a 

 slight dark marginal line ; fringe yellowish ; cell-spot small, blackish. 



Tliiidicii)q : similar ; the median pink shade distinct. 



Underside the same ; the costal half of forewing flushed with pinkish grey. 



Face and palpi blackish; collar pink ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen oehreous 

 yellow, the abdomen pink-tinged on dorsum. 



Expanse of wings : 17 mm. 



1 ? from R. Colorado, Peru, August, Se])tember 1002 (Watkins). 



Both wangs broader and shorter than usual, rounded at apex and indented 

 opposite cell ; the inner margin of forewing convex. 



I have seen several other examples from different localities in Peru, but all too 

 poor to describe. 



Schematorhages gen. nov. 



Forewing : triangular ; costa sinuate, inflexed in middle, apex produced, 

 depressed ; hindmargin sinuous, longer than inner margin, into which it curves 

 without forming a defined angle. 



Iliiuliciiig : aborted, narrow ; the costa convex and curving into hindmargin ; 

 inner margin triuicate and distorted. 



Antennae with the joints angulate, ciliated ; palpi slender, short, ubliiiuely 

 nptnrned ; tongue slight ; frenulum very fine, but long ; hindlegs aborted. 



JS'euration : forewing, cell half as long as w ing, broad ; discocellular vertical ; 

 first median nervule at two-thirds, secoud close before third ; radials normal ; 7, 8. i) 

 stalked ; lu and 11 stalked, anastomosing with the stem of 7, 8, 'J : hindwing, cell 

 reduced to a short oval, with four veins visible, one from the apex of the oval to 

 below apex of wing ; two from the lower margin of cell running into the j)rojecting 

 middle of hindmargin, and one apparently from base; the inner margin folded and 



