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Underside smooth, dark brown ; inner margin of forewing glossy ochrcous ; 

 cell-spot as above ; outer line pale, starting from a pale rostal spot, followed by 

 a broad shade with straight defined outer edge, between which and the margin 

 is a triangular pale blotch above anal angle : hindwiug darker brown ; cell-sjiot 

 large, black, edged and crossed by ochreons scales ; onter line ochrcous ; a blackisJi 

 blotch at anal angle. 



Head, shoulders, and abdomen dark red-brnwn; patagia deep velvety brown 

 like the centre of forewing ; pectns and underside of abdomen red-brnwn; all tlie 

 legs olive-ochreous, unspeckled, the spurs with black rings. 



Expanse of wings : cJ 02 mm. ; ? 48 — ;j(i mm. 



2 cJc?, 2 ?? from Limbani, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, Or.iio ft., April 1904, dry 

 season (Ockenden). 



Fore and hindwing without projections, but with minute denticulations of thi- 

 fringe beyond veins ; one ? is smaller and paler, 



103. Perusia verticata spec. nov. 



Fomrini) : pale straw-yellow, covered with faint olive striae ; costa streaked 

 with olive-brown ; first line faint, from one-fourth of costa to two-fifths of inner 

 margin, thick and bulged above and below median vein ; a faint cell-mark ; an 

 olive-brown band vertical from anal angle to costa, where it widens out towards 

 apex : it is marked by a curved series of dark vein-dots, that on vein black and 

 wedge-shaped, projecting outwards, another above vein 7 nearer ajiex, foilownl 

 to apex by whitish and grey scales ; fringe concolorous. 



IJiiif/wi/u/ : whiter, straw-colour only towards inner margin, with faint traces 

 of 11 curved submarginal line. 



Underside whitish straw-colour ; the band of forewing brown ; costa brown at 

 base ; hindwing with a submarginal row of vein-dots. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous, 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



1 f? from Huancabamba, C'erro de Pasco, Peru, 6400 ft. (Brittger). 



l'J4. Pyriuia abditaria ^'fc. nnv. 



Forcwinrj : dull deep re<l, crossed by very obscure deeper red bands; inner 

 band at one-third, broad, its outer edge strongly angled on median vein at end of 

 cell ; two outer bands, submarginal and near together, narrower, and jiarallel to 

 hindraargin : fringe deep red at base, with the tips pale : costa yellowish with short 

 dark streaks. 



Hinrlicing : with ground-colour lighter, passing into fulvous towards inner 

 and hindmargins ; a postmedian deep red band, and a broader submarginal one, 

 preceded by a narrow red line ; fringe as in forewing. 



Underside fulvous yellow with snnie red striae; the angle of t he inner baud 

 shown in midwing ; a broad curved submarginal band ontwanlly Innnlate or 

 dentate, with some violet scales in middle: hindwing almost without striae, with the 

 three lines very distinct. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen red ; face and jialpi lielow yellowish. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



1 $ from Chanchamayo, Peru, August lOtil (Garlepp). 



