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Ilimlwing : with the veins from base finely pale ochreous ; a bluntly angieil 

 outer line finely pale, broadly edged internally with brown ; the basal area within 

 it below the median pale ochreous, mottled transversely with brown ; above the 

 median a pale olive-brown streak from base along lower half of cell ; the upper 

 half marked with alternate oblique streaks of brown and whitish ochreous ; 

 marginal area brown and ochreous, containing a conspicuous white patch beyond 

 angle of outer line ; marginal line fine, white, preceded by an olive-brown, inwardly 

 black-edged narrow band, broadly interrupted at vein 5 and narrowly on vein 4 

 by whitish streaks. 



Underside of forewing yellowish ochreous, black-sj>eckled ; a smoky brown- 

 black cloud before hindmargin from anal angle hardly reaching costa, and a 

 slight dark blotch before excision : hindwing pale ochreous with brown speckles, 

 darker between the teeth. 



Face and palpi black above, ochreous below ; vertex, collar, shoulders, and 

 antennae bright pale ochreous ; thorax, patagia, and abdomen greyish brown, the 

 segmental rings narrowly pale ; abdomen beneath and legs ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



1 ? from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 6UU0 ft., November lOUl, 

 wet season (Ockenden). 



Forewing with apex depressed ; hindmargin concave from 7 to 4, straight 

 from 4 to 3, concave above and below vein 2, the anal angle strongly lobed, 

 and the inner margin very sinuous, fringed throughout with long fine pale hairs ; 

 hindwing with costa twice excised, veins 4 and 7 with long curved tails. 



Distinguished at once by the wholly pale ochreous vertex and [jrothorax. 



5. Epiplema rectilinea spec. nov. 



Forewing : red-brown, speckled with black ; the veins pale grey, black- 

 speckled ; first line from one-fourth of costa, oblique outwards to median vein, 

 where it is bluntly angled, then oblique inwards, bent on vein 2, to one-third 

 of inner margin, black-brown ; second line from quite two-thirds of costa nearly 

 straight to three-fourths of inner margin ; the sjiace between the lines darker 

 brown, especially on inner margin and towards outer line; the base of wing also 

 darker ; an indistinct darker patch on hindmargin between veins 4 and 6 ; fringe 

 red-brown, darker above the middle of wing. 



lliiidwiny : with the two lines curved ; the space between rather darker from 

 costa to vein 2 ; an obscurely marked submarginal series of dark specks ; fringe 

 as in forewing. 



Underside dull wood-brown, with transverse dark striae ; basal half of 

 forewing and outer line darker. 



Face and palpi black-brown ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen like wings, but 

 the abdomen greyer. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



2 (Jc? from Santo Domingo, (Jarabaya, S.E. Peru, 6000 ft., December IUdI, 

 ■wet season (Ockenden). 



The hindmargin of i'orewing very slightly excised, the teeth at veins 4 and 7 

 scarcely visible ; in the hindwing vein 7 is strongly toothed, bnt the tooth at 

 vein 4 and the excision between are both inconspicuous. Antennae liroken. 



