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Face and palpi black ; vertex and base of antennae dull rufous, rest of 

 antennae grey ; shoulders find patagia pale, whitish grey ; thorax and abdomen 

 darker grey. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



1 ? Santo Domingo, t'arabaya, S.E. Peru, 6uu0 ft., November lyul, wet 

 season (Ockenden). 



Forewing with apex truncate, hindmargin vertical from vein 7 to 0, both 

 being slightly toothed, deeply excised to 4, which is strongly toothed, then 

 oblique and crenulate to anal angle which is shortly lobed, the inner margin 

 shallowly excised before it. 



Hindwing with costa sinuate, strongly shouldered at apex, and produced at 

 vein 7 ; 7, 6, and 4, all toothed; otherwise the margin is more or less straight 

 from 7 to anal angle. 



8. Epiplema vulpecula spec. nov. 



Foreicing : pale brick-red ; the black-speckled costa and edges of central 

 fascia tinged with pale grey ; all the veins greyish and conspicuously marked 

 with blackish dots ; lines much as in E. scabra, described above ; marginal 

 lunnles very obscure; the outer line followed above middle by a narrow lilac- 

 grey fascia ; fringe rufous (worn). 



Hindwing : like forewing, with the central fascia very indistinct, but marked 

 on inner margin by a pale blotch ; a brown-black submarginal spi>t below lower 

 tooth. 



Underside of forewing fulvous ochreous, coarsely black-speckled, the costal 

 and hindmargins paler, less fulvous ; hindwing paler, with only the hindmargins 

 fnlvous, containing a blackish submarginal cloud towards anal angle. 



Face and palpi black ; vertex and antennae pale rufous ochreous ; shoulders, 

 patagia, thorax, and abdomen grey, the abdomen tinged with rufous. 



Expanse of wings : 3U mm. 



1 ? from Santo Domingo, Caraba}'a, S. E. Peru, 6000 ft., December 1901, wet 

 season (Ockenden). 



Evidently closely allied to E. scabra, and also to E. draco AVarr. from Bolivia, 

 the outline of the wings being the same in all three species. 



9. Hemioplisis? alternata spec. nov. 



Foreioiiig : dull purplish grey, darker towards inner and hindmargins ; an 

 obscure dark transverse shade near base; first line from one-third of inner 

 margin, straight and oblique towards apex, acutely angled on vein 4 and re- 

 tracted to costa ; a curved line from middle of inner margin, concave outwards, 

 angled on vein 7 and retracted to costa ; a dark slightly sinuous submarginal 

 line, bent to costa before apex ; before this line, which is followed by a dark 

 cloud, an oblique cloudy shade slopes towards apex, becoming obsolete above 

 middle ; fringe concolorous. 



Hindwing : with basal grey area crossed by two straight parallel dark lines ; 

 outer half of wing coarsely and closely speckled with black, the ground colour 

 towards hindmargin becoming fulvous. 



Under.-iide of forewing sprinkled with ferruginous and fulvous, the hind- 

 margin grey beyond the dark submarginal line : hindwing dull whitish grey, 

 sjieckled with darker, and tinted with fnlvous towards margin. 



