( 300 ) 



portions of the marginal area an intprrnpted jiale snbmarginal lino is traceable, 

 beginning as a whitish spot on costa, forming two acnfc black ]iale-fdged teeth 

 below it, and a white Innule at inner margin ; on costa and inner margin this line 

 is jireeedt'd bj a shade of deeper red-brown ; a fine black marginal fostonn ; fringe 

 dark brown, with fine pale chequering beyond veins. 



llhidicinq : greyish white, in one ? cinereous, with u. broail bhickisb fnscons 

 marginal imrder, preceded by a fine angled postmedian line ; fringe reddish. 



Underside of forewing blurred grey, blacker towards hindniargin ; costal area 

 pinkish ochreous, mnch speckled with black ; a pale marginal patch between 

 veins 3 and 4 and a smaller one at anal angle : liindwing ochreous, densely striateil 

 witli blackish, the cell-spot, postmedian Hue, and marginal border black. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen green, varied with darker and redilish nchrenus ; 

 pal]>i pale with dark tijis ; abdomen darker along dorsum. 



E.xpanse of wings : 33 mm. 



1 6 from Santo Domingo, ( 'arabaya. S.E. Peru, G5iio ft., December ]9ni.' ; 

 1 ?, November VM^l, wet season; and 1 ?, April 1902, dry season (Ockenderi). 

 The 6 throughout is more strongly marked. 



I'-'C. Ischnopteris degener spec. uov. 



Foi-eiriiiq : greenisli wliite, freckled all over with blackish striae, with a rufous 

 tinge in parts; a dark blotch at extreme base: first line blackish, oblique, from 

 one-sixth of costa to one-fourth of inner margin ; outer line at about three-fifths, 

 irregularly dentate, outcurved but interrujited in middle of wing to two-thirds of 

 inner margin, followed by a pale greenish white baud, broader on inner margin ; 

 median shade blackish and diffuse, sinuous ; subraargiual line whitish, interrupted, 

 preceded by a blackish shade forming acute teeth below costa and above inner 

 margin ; the marginal area again becoming freckled and grey, with some ill-formed 

 black marginal spots ; fringe rufous-grey. 



liindwing : greyish white, darker along inner and hindmargin, with traces of 

 a snbmarginal shade ; fringe dark grey, beyond a dark marginal line. 



Underside of forewing dirty whitish, with the markings all dull grey ; of 

 hindwing dull whitish with a few striae. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey sjieckled with darker : jialpi externally 

 fnscons ; face rubbed. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



1 i from Santo Domingo, ('arabaya, S.E.Peru, noim I't., Octob.'r lOirJ, dry 

 season (Ockenden). 



Neodesmodes gen. nov. 



Foreiving : costa strongly arched at base, then straight ; a|iex blunt ; hind- 

 margin curved, not oblicpie imr crenulate ; anal angle squared. 



Iliudiring : a.m\Ac ; hindmargin with a very slight jirojection at vein 4, and 

 indentation above it beyond cell ; apical angle rounded ; anal angle s(iuared. 



Thorax, metathorax, and abdomen tufted; palpi rough-scaled, upcurveil in 

 front ; antennae ( 9 ) simple ; tongue and frennlum present. 



Neuration : forewing, cell a little longer tlian half of wing ; discocellubir 

 concave; first median nervule shortly before end of cell, second and third long- 

 Stalked; radials normal; 7, 8, U stiiJked from belore end. In from the same point. 



