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1 1 before it : hiiidwing, costal and subcostal slightly approximating near base ; 

 0, 7 stalked ; 3, 4, long-stalked. 



Scaling smooth and fine, as in Sijrfodea Guen. 



Type : Xeodi'sinodfs srmiallata spec. nov. 



127. Neodesmodes semialbata spec. nov. 



Frirc'tciiu/ : silky white, with sienna brown and black markings ; a lilack liasal 

 ]>atch, with its centre brown, followed at one-fourth by a broad curved or bent black 

 band ; cell-spot black, with a black costal and subcostal mark above it, and some 

 blackish scales forming a kind of median cloud across the white central area, which 

 is bounded at two-thirds by an irregularly bent black line, forming a short beak 

 outwards on median vein and another on submedian, strongly bulging basewards 

 between ; marginal area brown, containing an interrupted white snbmargiual band, 

 biangulate to vein 4, then interrupted and forming a straight line from 3 to anal 

 angle ; before and beyond this lower arm the brown colour becomes black, and also 

 beyond cell ; a pale streak at apex ; a row of dark marginal lunnles ; fringe 

 cheqnered white and brown. 



Ilindiring : white, with a broad blackish marginal border ; cell-spot and 

 median line showing dark from underside ; fringe blackish. 



Underside like upper, but all the markings of forewing dull, of hindwing clear. 



Head, shonlders, and metathoracic tuft white ; pali)i blackish, with white 

 terminal segment ; thorax, patagia, and abdomen black, the last more cinereous, 

 and with pale segmental rings ; underside of abdomen and legs mottled black 

 and white. 



Expanse of wings : 35 mm. 



1 ¥ from Limbani, C'arabaya, S.E. Peru, 9000 ft., February and March 1904 

 (Ockenden). 



In the above description the coloration of the right wings has been followed. 

 In the left forewing the costal end of the inner band, the cell-spot and those above 

 it, and the marginal area above middle are brown, not black ; while in the left 

 hindwing the marginal horder is brown at apex. The same difference occurs on 

 the underside. 



128. Sericosema angiilata spec. nov. 



Foreiriiiq : J'ale ochreous, flushed with ochraceons, and witli a few black 

 speckles; the veins, especially the median and its branches, paler than the rest; 

 first line represented by three black dots on veins and one on inner margin, placed 

 in a slight curve at one-third ; outer line by a similar series from close before apex 

 to five-sixths of inner margin, slightly sinuate : followed by an ochraceous shade 

 from apex, which pales off towards liiodmargin ; a broad brownish ochraceous 

 median shade from below two-thirds of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, nearly 

 straight; slight dark lines along margin between veins; fringe ochraceous, with 

 paler basal line. 



Hiiuhrhui : without any ochraceous tinge, or first line; the median shade 

 browner. 



Underside duller, tinged with greyish ochreous and more thickly speckled ; the 

 markings indistinct. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, and legs all ochreous. 



