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59. Gagitodes plumbinotata spec. nov. 



Foreiviny : ochreous washed with brown ; basal patch, the broad baud 

 following it, a triangular patch on costa before apes, and a submarginal blotch 

 along vein 2 purplish slate-colonr ; the edge of basal patch and the bands edging 

 central fascia marked at costa by velvety black blotches ; the margins of the 

 bands preceding and following the central fascia finely ochreous ; the inner band 

 of central fascia is continued across the wing, but interrupted below middle 

 by the brown dusting of the central ochreous space ; cell-spot a brown Innule 

 with a broad pale ochreous edging, forming an ear-shaped blotch with two 

 dark spots on its outer edge ; the pale line edging central fascia externally is 

 right-angled above vein 6, then incurved and marked by black dots on veins ; 

 a black oblique streak from apex ; submarginal line hardly indicated ;; extreme 

 margin and fringe deeper brown, the outer half of fringe mottled with grey ; 

 pairs of small black dots along margin at the ends of the veins. 



llindicinc/ : cream-white, with indications of black lines at and above anal 

 angle ; fringe pale brown ; cell-spot grey. 



Underside pale ochreous, in the forewing suffused with purplish grey except 

 towards anal angle and along the outer line which is marked by black vein-dots ; 

 in the hindwing dusted only with dark grey, with the cell-spot and outer row 

 of dots conspicuously black as in forewing ; fringes as above. 



Palpi, head, and thorax purplish black ; abdomen ochreous grey, with the 

 base broadly and the anal segment purplish black. 



Expanse of wings : 29 mm. 



1 cj from Hnancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Peru, 0000 to 10,000 ft. (Buttger). 



60. Hydriomena scalata spec. nov. 



Foreiciiig : grey speckled with darker, tinged in parts with pale green and 

 pale flesh-colour ; a small grey blotch at base of costa ; the rest of the wing crossed 

 by five dark grey bands ; the first narrow and oblique, from near base of costa 

 to one-fourth of inner margin ; the second broad, also oblique outwards, angled 

 outwards on the median vein and inwards on the submedian fold ; the third 

 Y-shaped, the two upper arms rising obliquely from costa as squarish black 

 blotches, angled outwards in cell, then becoming blackish lines, parallel to each 

 other, and angled inwards on submedian fold, crossed by the black veins ; fourth 

 vertical and slightly sinuous, oblique inwards from vein 6 to submedian fold, 

 its outer edge wedge-shaped between the veins ; fifth marginal ; a dark oblique 

 streak from ajiex with two short black dashes on it ; the paler spaces between 

 the bauds along costa, where they are broader, are pale green, and below, where 

 they become narrowed, pale reddish ; a linear black cell-spot touching the inner 

 arm of the middle band ; a marginal line of black dashes at the vein-ends ; 

 fringe concolorous with marginal band ; when fresh most of the veins are black 

 and the bands edged with black. 



Hindwing : pale grey, with traces of curved median, postmedian, and marginal 

 darker bands ; fringe pale grey. 



Underside greenish cinereous ; the bands of both wings slightly darker ; costa 

 of forewing broadly greenish ochreous with the bands darker, the fourth and outer 

 arm of the third black, 



