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to three-fonrtlis of inner margin is a raixtnro of yellowish and blackish scales, 

 edged ontwardl}' by a darker line and then a bluish white line ; its inner edge 

 is lined tlironglioiit with metallic silvery, its outer oidy to subcostal vein ; this 

 vein is yellowish between the two lines ; fringe whitish yellow, grey only at 

 extreme apex ; at the base of wing are a few yellow and metallic scales. 



Ilhuhr'nig : with the outer line of forewing continued across it to anal angle, 

 being roundly curved below the middle ; the outer pale line here liecnmes lustrous 

 in its lower course : tlie space between the inner metallic line and the outer 

 lustrous one is traversed by a central black line, the space before it being clear 

 pale yellow, and that beyond it mixed, as in forewing, with blackish ; two metallic 

 silvery spots before the angle, the lower and smaller one edged inwardly with 

 black, the larger upper one with deep red ; a broad i)atch of the same red runs 

 along margin from apex to vein 6, and thence narrowly round the tail ; fringe 

 whitish yellow from apex to angle, grey below the angle. 



Underside dark grey, with the outer pale line showing slightly in both wings. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey like wings. 



Expanse of wings : S, 44 mm. ; ? , 40 — 44 mm. 



1 <J, 2 ? ?,from Dominica, West Indies, November 1903 and January 1904 

 (Agar). 



The hindmargin of hindwing is strongly angled at middle, especially in 

 the $. 



Si'BFAMiLV PALYADINAE. 



92. Argyrotome muricolor spec. nov. 



Foreiriny : mouse-grey, the scales forming fine dark transverse lines on a 

 pnler ground; basal two-thirds spangled with coarse dull leaden scales; a large 

 riMiiid ocellus on discocellular, the pupil black, almost hidden by a central boss 

 of raised leaden scales, surrounded by first a dull olive-yellow and that with a 

 dark ring ; a broad curved olive-brown shade from two-thirds of costa to anal 

 angle, traversed along middle by a line of contiguous leaden bossy spots between 

 the veins ; fringe concolorous. 



Hindwing : without discal ocellus, the basal two-thirds sprinkled with coarse 

 metallic scales ; a leaden metallic line from before apex to anal angle, and another 

 along hindmargin ; the marginal sj)ace tinged with olive-brown and marked by 

 three bosses of leaden scales, one on each side of vein 3, the upper the larger, 

 and a small one between and 7 ; fringe grey. 



Underside pale blue-grey, with a broad brownish submarginal fascia on both 

 . wings. 



Face and jialpi dark, the face with a strong steely lustre ; thorax and abdomen 

 grey. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



1 J from L'hanchamayo, Peru, October 1901 (Garle]ip). 



93. Berberodes penumbrata spec. nov. 



Fofcwini/ : white with three lines of gilded yellow spots, as in canchylalu 

 Guen. ; the costa yellow, speckled with purplish bronzy at base, and with three 

 bronzy spots at beginning of the lines ; a brown marginal border from below 

 apex to anal angle, interrupted by the white ground-colour between veins 

 3 and 4 ; a row of dark brown diamond-shaped marginal spots between the 



