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hindmargiu between the veins ; friuge white ; the uarrow submargiual area is 

 white without auy spots, and the cell and space beyond are less thickly dusted ; 

 before ajicx a pale brown streak on costa. 



Jlimlicimj : witlioiit spots, except the cell-spot, a submargiual row on the 

 veins, and the marginal spots as on forewiug. 



Underside like upper. 



Palpi blackish ; face and vertex white ; shoulders yellow ; thorax and jiatagia 

 whitish with large black spots ; abdomen yellow with dorsal and lateral rows of 

 smaller spots. 



Expanse of wings : 52 mm. 



1 ? from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 6000 ft., April 1902, end of 

 wet season (Ockenden). 



This is, I believe, only the second species of the Old-World genus Abraxas 

 yet known from S. America. 



M. Dognin described the first, ^1. estria<la, from Chiriipii. 



Subfamily BRACCINAE. 

 111. Devarodes subtincta spec. nov. 



Forewing : velvety black, the fringe whitish ; from the centre of the base a 

 dull whitish space extends between the median vein and snbmedian fold, expanding 

 in middle of wing into a clearer white round blotch, occupying the lower half of 

 the end of cell and embracing the origin of the three median nervnles. 



Hindwing : pale sulphur-colour for three-fiftiis, with a liroad velvety black 

 border from apex to anal angle. 



Underside of forewing with tlie white basal patch reaching inner margin, and 

 bordered by a velvety black band, starting from base of cell and carving round 

 twice as broad as at its origin into anal angle ; the basal half of costa and the 

 apical area remaining dull white, the veins black : hindwing pale yellowish with 

 outer border smoky grey, the veins black. 



Palpi black ; face blackish with the sides whitish ; vertex black with a white 

 spot in middle ; a white mark behind the eyes ; shoulders black with the tips 

 white ; patagia black with the tips and inner edge white ; thorax black ; abdomen 

 with- dorsal streak, segmental ring,s, and anal segment black, the sides and 

 underneath white ; legs white beneath ; antennae black, with the shaft, at middle 

 white. 



Expanse of wings : 35 mm. 



1 (J from Upper River Toro, La Merced, Peru, August, September I'JOl 

 (Simons). 



Allied to buioiM Druce and stibcaria Wlk. 



112. Sangalopsis velutina spec. nov. 



Forewing : deep velvety black ; a large red blotch wilii curved .sidi's iieyund 

 cell, broadening downwards, crossed by veins 2 to 6. 



JliiKhoiiig : wholly black ; fringes black. 



Underside of forewing with the red blotch as above and the disc velvety 

 black ; all three margins and the apex broadly ])aler ; the last with a dull sheen 

 in certain lights : hiudwiug smoky blackish, the veins deeper ; the kiudmargia 



