( S.iO ) 



Palpi and antennae dark grey; fapp dull wiiite ; thorax and al)domen pale 

 grey, the latter ringed with darker. 

 Exjianse of wings : 35 mm. 

 2 cJJ from Hnaneabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Pern, GOOO— 10,000 ft. (Bottger). 



125. Nipteria unilinea s])oc. nov. 



Forcuiiuj : dull groyish ochreoiis, more clearly oohreons along costa and 

 beyond the onter line ; the whole with fine fnscons striae, which are plainest and 

 densest in the ochrcons {tortious ; base of costa fuscons ; a bent inner line is hardly 

 traceable from one-fifth of costa to one-third of inner margin ; a blackish, inwardly 

 diffuse, straight oblique line from three-fifths of inner margin to costa shortly 

 before apex ; cell-spot cloud}', blackish ; fringe brownish. 



Ilimlwing: with small dark cell-spot and slightly sinuous dark postmedian 

 line, which is indistinctly double ; fringe pale. 



Underside brownish ochreous, thickly freckled with fuscous ; inner area of 

 forewing semi-transparent dark grey without ochreous tint or dark speckling; the 

 lines and cell-spots distinct ; the line of hindwing plainly double ; a black spot at 

 base of cell. 



Palpi and legs black ; head and thorax pale ochreous ; abdomen greyer ; 

 outside of patagia at base blackish ; antenual shaft ochreous, the pectinations dark. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



1 $ from Huancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Pern, 6000—10,000 ft. (Bottger). 



Evidently near secturata Dogu., which, however, is larger, and differs, judging 

 from the description, iu several particulars. 



126. Nipteria vestigiata spec. nov. 



Forewing : dull whitish with dark veins; the costa tinged with grey and witli 

 two darker grey elongated clouds at one-third and two-thirds, the costal" ed^'e near 

 base blackish ; from the onter costal grey cloud an outer line rises, running more 

 or less parallel to hindmargin, and marked with dark dashes on veins, thick and 

 diffuse to vein 4, then slightly outcurved and linear, beyond the dark vein-spots ; 

 a l.road diffuse snbmarginal grey clond, narrower and interrupted below middle'; 

 cell-spot linear, vertical ; fringe pale and dark grey. 



Hhuhchiy : like forewing, the outer line thin and outcurved, but insinuate 

 beyond cell. 



Underside with the dark shades and markings much stronger : hindwing with 

 a basal and inner line as well. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish ; tips of shoulders and patagia and 

 segmental divisions of abdomen grey ; legs, antennae, and palpi blackish." 



Expanse of wings : 37 mm. 



1 $ from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 6000 ft., April 1002, end of 

 wet season, and 2 ? ?, October I'jo:.', dry season (Ockenden). 



Subfamily ASCOTINAE. 



127. Bronchelia fiimistrota spec. nov. 



Forcunng : white, thickly sprinkled with coarse grey granulations ; the lines 



blackish grey ; first at one-fourth, outcurved above and below median vein, dentate 



inwards and darker marked on the veins, preceded by a similar line ; median 



shade a little before middle, outcurved round the black cell-spot and cloudy, then 



