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olive-black ; the outer line to luidille and the submaigiuul blackisli olive edged 

 with white; the other markings only showing through ; cell-spot black in a pale 

 space : hindwing with dark olive antemediau, thick dentate jiostmediau, and diffnse 

 submarginal lines, all edged outwardly with white; tiie margin jiinkish ochreuiis; 

 a large dark olive cell-spot ; fringe yellow, mottled with black, and with a fine 

 black line at base. 



Head, thorax, and iilidomeu olive-ochreous ; base of abdomen whitish, the 

 remaining segments on dorsum dark olive ; the anal tufts ochrcuus; legs and palpi 

 ochreous, externally olive. 



Exjianse of wiijgs : 'J>> mm. 



1 ? from Limbani, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, !i5iin ft., April I9(i4, dry season 

 (Ockeuden). 



72. Pterocypha simpliciata sjiec. nov. 



FoiYicing : grey, with a slight ruious and olive tinge in j)laces ; basal patch 

 and central fascia dark olive-fuscous ; basal patch small, its edge vertical ; inner 

 edge of fascia also nearly vertical, slightly curved only at costa, at one-third ; outer 

 edge oblique outwards and forming a shar]i projection on vein 4, then incurved and 

 vertical to two-thirds of inner margin ; the limiting bands composed of three 

 lilackish curved lines, the middle of the fascia on costa forming a sijuare grey 

 blotch ; cell-spot black, hidden iu the dark sulfnsion ; traces of a pale snlmiarginal 

 line preceded by a dark cloudy shade, with lines marked Ijy dark dashes on veins ; 

 a dark lunulate marginal line ; fringe grey, mottled with black. 



Hinilwiny : rufous-fuscous, the hindmargin darker, preceded by a paler band 

 beyond the angled dark outer line, which is preceded by three other lines and a 

 cell-spot ; the whole basal area darker. 



Underside cream-colour, with black cell-spots and an nuter angled baud of 

 three dark lines ; forewing with broad black marginal band to vein 2, complete to 

 vein 4, then interrupted, the apex jiarrowly pale ; hindwing with the band sub- 

 marginal and slighter; a black spot on costa of forewing at one-third. 



Face and j)alpi black, the face with centre grey ; thorax and alidomen oclireous- 

 grey, the dorsum grey-tinged and with two interrujited darker lines ; underneath 

 cream-colour. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



1 <J from Suncha Corral, Santiago del Estero, Argentina (Steinbach). 



The rough curled hairs of forewing are restricted to the ujiper half of cell alorg 

 subcostal vein. 



"3. Spargania nigrifasciata spec. nov. 



Forewing: olive-green iu basal third, the central fascia blackish green, 

 marginal third white; the basal jiatch crossed by three curved and waved dark 

 lines; central fascia with inner edge vertical and irregularly waved, the outer 

 sharply projecting above vein 6 and below vein 4, and more bluntly below vein 3 : 



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apical area above vein 4 olive-green, crossed by darker shades and a waved pale 

 submarginal line ; a few dark clouds towards anal angle ; cell-.spot black. 



llindidiKj : white, slightly greyish towards base, and with an obscure cell-spot 

 fringe white. 



Underside of Ibrewing to outer edge of fascia greenish grey, the aj.ical area the 



