( 505 ) 



thorax, base, aud sides of abdomen green ; rest of abdomen ochreous ; the sides 

 with red spots ; the dorsal segments with flattened red-brown lustrous crests. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



1 ? from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Pern, 6500 ft., December 1902, wet 

 season (Ockenden). 



Nearest to Oospila delacfuzi Dogn., but the white blotches much restricted 

 in size. 



28. Oospila rufiplaga nov. spec. 



Forewing : semi-transparent, dark green, with faintly darker striae ; the 

 costal edge reddish ochreous ; a round brown-black cell-spot, with a minute pink 

 centre ; marginal border with two blotches as in tnlnnnria Gnen., but smaller and 

 of different coloration ; a small semicircular one from vein 6 to below vein 5, 

 blackish brown with a few pink scales in it ; a larger oval blotch at anal angle, 

 reaching to halfway between veins 2 and 3, but narrower laterally than in 

 trilunaria, blackish brown, with a round pink space in the upper part above 

 vein 1, the green along its inner edge with a yellowish tint ; marginal line finel)' 

 black ; fringe black-brown, chequered narrowly with white between the veins, 

 above vein 1 with pink. 



Hindwlnq : with the blotch at anal angle quite small, and only a slight 

 thickening of the marginal line at apex ; cell-sjiot as in forewing, near lower 

 end of discocellular ; a small round shining white spot at the upper end ; fringe 

 as in forewing. 



Underside whitish, with cell-spots and marginal spots red-brown ; costa of 

 forewing yellowish ; the large blotch at anal angle of forewing showing through. 



P'ace and palpi dull reddish; fillet and antennal shaft white ; the pectinations 

 rufous ochreous ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen green, the latter with a pink dorsal 

 stripe, containing five crests, the first three of raised black and metallic scales 

 mixed with pinkish hairs ; the last two of pink hairs only ; anal tuft white ; 

 abdomen below and legs whitish ; forelegs rosy-tinged. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



1 $ from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 6000 ft., June 1902, dry 

 season (Ockenden). 



Apparently the Peruvian form of the Brazilian trilunaria Guen. 



Guenee does not allude to any dorsal crests. 



Poecilochlora gen. nov. 



Fore/wing : costa slightly curved ; apex bluntly rounded ; hiudmargin bluntly 

 toothed at vein 4, slightly emarginate from 7 to 4, very oblique and somewhat 

 crenulate below ; anal angle well marked ; inner margin short. 



Iluidiving : bluntly toothed at vein 4 and less so at vein 6, excised between ; 

 straight and crenulate to anal angle. 



Antennae of c? of delicate structure, the shaft and pectinations semi-transparent, 

 the pectinations sliort and stout, strongly ciliated; palpi porrcct, roughly scaled, 

 terminal joint pointed ; tongue and frenulum present ; hiudtibia with four spurs. 



Nenration : forewing, cell less than half of wing ; discocellular concave ; first 

 median nervule at three-fourths, second and third short-stalked ; lower radial from 

 above middle of discocellular, upper stalked with 7, 8, 9, 10; 11 anastomosing with 

 12 : hiudwing with 6, 7 long-stalked, 3, 4 short-stalked. 



