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118. Nipteria exclamationis spec. nov. 



Foreiving : blurred Inteons grey, the costal area clear, pale lateons, thickly 

 mottled with blackish, towards base wholly blackish ; hindmarginal area grey 

 mottled with darker ; a cloudy blackish cell-spot ; a blackish outer line from 

 three-fourths of costa parallel to outer margin, thick and distinct to vein 4, 

 then obsolescent and marked faintly only on the veins ; fringe grey mottled 

 with darker. 



Ilindwinq : mottled with dark fuscous throughout, with a curved postmediau 

 line, a large spot on discocellular, and another in middle of cell showing through 

 from underside. 



Underside with all the markings much darker and more distinct ; the spot in 

 cell of hindwiug elongate. 



Head, thorax, aud alidomen luteous grey ; shoulders and patagia marked with 

 darker ; segmental divisions of al)domen fuscous ; legs dark fuscous. 



The ? is altogether paler, both in ground-colour and markings. The position 

 of the outer line seems variable ; in one ? it rises only just before apex and in the 

 hindwing is at two-thirds ; in another it rises at four-fifths, only a little nearer 

 margin than in the S- 



Several examples from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru (Ockendenj. 



Closely related to N. nigrisignata Warr. 



119. Nipteria nigrisignata spec. nov. 



Forewing : greyish white with a brownish tinge; along the costa somewhat 

 paler, more ochreous, and coarsely striated with black ; a black blotch from base, 

 and a large irregular curved blotch at three-fourths of costa, the lower pointed end 

 reaching vein 5 ; from it can be traced a faint oblique Hue to three-fifths of inner 

 margin, edged by a paler space; marginal area diffusely smoky brown with darker 

 transverse striae ; cell-spot large, black ; fringe grey, with darker patches beyond 

 the veins. 



Hindwing : wholly speckled with fuscous, the marginal area and fringe as in 

 forewing ; a smoky black cell-spot, a larger blotch in cell before it, and a bent 

 interrupted line lieyond it showing through from underside. 



Underside brighter, more ochreons-tinged ; forewing with base of costa, cell- 

 spot, and subapical blotch velvety black ; hindwing with large blotch at base and 

 middle of costa, cell-spot and blotch in middle of cell, and a blotch below vein 2 

 velvety black. 



Head, palpi, and patagia black ; thorax and abdomen like wings, the segments 

 of abdomen marked with black and broadened laterally ; abdomen beneath whitish, 

 black-speckled ; legs all blackish. 



E.Kpanse of wings : 48 mm. 



I ¥ from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Pern, 6U00 ft., March 1902, wet 

 season (Ockenden). 



120. Nipteria occulta spec. nov. 



Forewing : semi-transparent, smooth pale grey, unspeckled ; the costal and 

 apical areas suffused with brownish grey and dark-speckled ; a small blackish 

 cell- spot; from just before the apex, where it is followed by a small pale spot, a 

 dark obliijue line, marked by black dashes on veins, runs tn vein G, is deflected 



