88 NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXV. 1918. 



27. Somatina exaeta sp. nov. 



<J, 32 mm. ; ?, 34 mm. Head red-brown. Palpus short, beneath pale 

 yellowish brown. Antennal jomts in ^ scarcely projecting; ciliation rather 

 long, slender. Thorax and abdomen pale buff, paler beneath, the thorax above 

 with a tinge of olive, the abdomen of vinaceous. Hindleg in o very short ; tibia 

 shorter than femur, strongly dUated, rough-scaled, clothed above with long 

 projecting scales ; tarsus strongly abbreviated. 



Forewing with SC= stalked, R- scarcely before middle of DC ; costal margin 

 except towards apex purple (vinaceous, jsartly mixed with blue-black) ; ground- 

 colour otherwise cream-buff, in places tinged with olive, palest at costa, in apical 

 area (broadly) and in distal area, about the cell-mark and between median and post- 

 median bands ; three diffuse, irregular bands of an ochreous tone, mixed in the 

 proximal part of the postmedian and posterior part of the others with vinaceous ; 

 antemedian oblique, anteriorly somewhat curved, from beyond one-third hind- 

 margin to SO near end of cell ; median curved beyond the ceU-mark, slightly 

 incurved behind, thickening to hindmargin at three-fifths ; postmedian strongly 

 excurved in a great part of its course, slightly lobed about R- and M', slightly 

 incurved behind, reaching hindmargin rather near tornus ; a very indistinct 

 elongate ochraceous cell-mark ; an ochraceous. dark-mixed sinuous subterminal 

 line from close to tornus, approximately parallel with the postmedian band, in 

 the cJ obsolete anteriorly, in the $ here more strongly sinuous, receding from 

 termen in front of R', not quite reaching costa ; terminal line slight ; fringe 



whitish, weakly chequered. Hindwing with SC= — R' connate or very shortly 



stalked ; whitish at base, otherwise buff, clouded with vinaceous ; two large 

 blue-black dots on discocellulars, slightly connected by a brown shade ; median 

 and postmedian shades strongly developed, the former crossing or placed only 

 just beyond the discocellulars, the latter approximately parallel with termen ; 

 a thick, slightly sinuous subterminal brown line, beyond which the ground- 

 colour is somewhat more whitish. 



Underside pale cream-buff, the forewLng clouded (except at distal and pos- 

 terior margins) with salmon-buff and with the costal edge proximally more 

 rufous ; both wings with salmon-buff terminal line. 



Carabaya, S. E. Peru : La Oroya, Rio Inambari, 3,100 ft., September 1904, 

 dry season (G. Ockenden), type <? in coll. Tring Museum ; Quinton, 5,000 ft., 

 January 1905 (G. Ockenden), paratype ? in coll. Joicey. 



Though lighter, this sjjecies supei-ficially recalls Scelolophia (Crypsityla) 

 quinquelineata Dogn. {Le Nat., xii. 10), but the (J lacks the hair-tuft beneath the 

 hindwing, the ? hindtibia has 4 spurs and the venation is different. I refer to 

 Sonudina, in the lack of good differential characters, all the Sco/jx/a-like species 

 with double areole (Acratodes, "Lipomelia" admirahilis Oberth., the adela 

 group, etc., etc.). Even Xystrota Hulst scarcely differs except in the rougher 

 scaling and pectinate <J antenna, and its genitalia show a close affinity with 

 those of S. adela Dogn. Semaeopns, sens. lat. (vide Novitates Zoologicae, 

 xxiv. 378) though offering few tangible differential characters from Somatina, is 

 shown by the genitalia to belong to the CosymJbia section of the subfamily. 



28. Eumacrodes euthysticta sp. nov. 

 (J ?, 18-19 mm. Very similar to small specimens of Euacidalia orbdia Dnicr 

 {Biol. Centr.-Amer., Lrp. Het. ii. 145, t. 54, fig. 26). ^ hindtarsus minuter, hind- 



