( 540 ) 



Underside of forewiiig tilive-fuscous ; costal area and the apex broadly 

 checjuered with red and fuscous : hiudwing. much paler, reddish sprinkled with 

 fnscons ; a diffuse smoky dark fuscous band from iuncr margin above anal angle 

 towards apex, which it does not reach. 



Face, vertex, aud palpi olive-fuscons, with a few rciUlish scales ; shoulders 

 and patagia reddish like base of costa ; abdomen olive-cinereous, basal segment 

 paler, olive-ochreons ; antennae pale ochreons yellow. 



Expanse of wings : 37 mm. 



1 c? from Hnancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Peru, 0000—10,000 ft. (Bottger). 



Differs from ('. sobria Warr. in having no trace of pale enter line either above 

 or below. The anteunal pectinations are much shorter than in the other species, 

 being reduced to mere stout pubescent serrations. 



103. Cophocerotis margaritacea spec. nov. 



Forewing : satiny white, with a slight grey tinge from the underside ; costa 

 with four large olive blackish blotches, separated by pale spaces, all increasing 

 in size towards apex, the edge of the dark areas finely speckled with pale, the 

 last one before apex with a white tooth in middle ; fringe white with concise 

 black cheqnerings beyond the veins. 



Hindioing : without markings ; the fringe with black dots only and one 

 sjiot at apex. 



Underside pale green with the last costal blotch velvety black, the four 

 blotches produced as dull olive-brownish coalescent fasciae across wing, the last 

 interrnpted between 4 and 6 by a rosy brown tinge marked with black at 

 hindniargin ; fringe with velvety black mottlings : hindwing with three widely 

 interrnpted olive-brown fasciae, represented by three elongated blotches on inner 

 margin, and two above middle, the outer one isolated, the middle touching costa 

 and angled below. 



Palpi and anal tuft of abdomen black ; face, vertex, thorax, and abdomen 

 greenish white ; antennae speckled black and white ; abdomen below and femora 

 black mixed with pale green ; tibiae and tarsi rufous ochreons ; pectus and sides 

 of shoulders black. 



Expanse of wings : 37 mm. 



1 $ from Hnancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Pern (Bottger). 



104. Cophocerotis submuscosa spec. nov. 



Foretving : blurred grey, with a slight pink tinge, which is more evident 

 along costa and at apex ; costal edge with fine black specks ; costa witli three jiiile 

 streaks, indicating so many lines ; first at one-sixth, not developed ; second at 

 one-third, edged outwardly with dark, the line from it obscure, bent in cell, then 

 straight to inner margin, forming the inner edge of an ill-defined central 

 fiiscia; outer line pale with dark inner edge, from two-tlurds of costa to 

 two-thirds of inner margin, outbeut from vein 6 to 2 ; a slight dark cell-mark ; 

 apical area deep dull rosy, striated with dull grey ; fringe deep, the inner half 

 dull rosy, the outer yellowish white, with double black mottlings beyond veins. 



Jliruhring : with blurred and indistinct grey mottlings on a dull pink ground ; 

 the outer line pale and distinct throughout, the inner more or less obscured ; tracej 

 of a pinkish waved submarginal line ; cell-spot dark grey ; fringe dull luteous 

 with black mottlings. 



