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with white towards base ; palpi red-brown with some white at extremities of 

 2nd and 3rd joints ; abdomen red-brown mixed with some whitish ; pectus 

 and legs red-brown mixed with whitish, the tarsi black-brown ringed with white. 

 Forewing red-brown mixed with grey, the terminal half of inner margin tinged 

 with sap-green, the veins of terminal area with shght blackish streaks ; a dark 

 point at base of median nervure ; a shght waved dark subbasal hne from costa 

 to submethan fold ; antemedial line blackish, double obhque and filled in with 

 whitish to median nervure, then v, aved and filled in with white, conjoined black- 

 brown spots before it in and below the cell and above inner margin ; the medial 

 area very narrow ^vith a strong obhquely curved black-brown medial hne, 

 another double, blackish, shghtly curved and sinuous hne just beyond it with 

 some dark brown beyond it below the costa ; postmechalhnesUght, dark, dentate, 

 and produced to wliitish jDoints at the veins, rather obhque to vein 5, then in- 

 curved, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; a faint pale sinuous subterminal 

 hne, defined on inner side by some brown and with a slight dark mark on its 

 outer side at discal fold ; a terminal line of minute dark somewhat lunulate spots. 

 Hindning glossy red-brown, the ciha \ihite chequered with red-brown. Under- 

 side whitish suffused with red-brown ; forewdng with the costal area white and 

 rufous with a rufous mark at middle and double oblique postmecUal striae ; 

 hindwing with dark discoidal spot, sinuous red-brown medial line and waved 

 postmedial line somewhat excurved below costa and at middle. 



Hab. Venezuela, Esteban Valley, Las Quiguas (lUages), 1 ? type. Ex-p. 

 SO mill. 



4285a. Namangana thyatirodes n. sp. 



?. Head and thorax white mixed with ohve-green and irrorated with a few 

 black scales, the patagia with some black scales on edges ; antennae black 

 ringed with wliitish ; palpi black-brown and whitish ; abdomen whitish suffused 

 with red- brown and with shght blackish segmental hnes ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen red-browai and whitish, the tibiae with blackish marks 

 towards extremities, the tarsi black-brown, the extremities of tibiae and the 

 tarsal joints ringed with white. Forewing ohve-green irrorated with black, the 

 veins beyond the cell streaked with black, the costal edge black towards base, 

 the base of inner margin more thickly irrorated with black ; antemedial Una 

 slight, black, obhque to submedian fold and angled inwards at vein 1 ; a conical 

 white patch on inner medial area from before the antemedial hne to the post- 

 medial hne ; claviform defined by black scales ; orbicular defined by black, 

 large, round ; reniform defined by black on inner side and below, its outer part 

 lost in a large round white patch tinged with rufous at centre, extending to the 

 postmedial hne and to below costa ; postmedial hne blackish, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then excurved to vein 4, then double oblique and waved, 

 an obhque patch formed by two spots to it at vein 6 from apex, a white patch 

 beyond it between veins 4 and 2, and some black between veins 5 and 3 and 

 below 2 ; some black suffusion on costa before the obhque white patch ; a ter- 

 minal series of shght black lunules ; ciha white mixed with some black. Hind- 

 wing white, the inner area tinged with ochreous ; the veins beyond the cell dark 

 brown ; the terminal area suffused \\ith dark brown, narrowing to tornus ; a 

 terminal series of blackish bars defined by white ; ciha wliite ; the underside 



