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nearly straight to inner margin, also dentate inwards on the veins ; outer line 

 at two-thirds, distinctly dentate-lunulate throaghout, outcurved above, the teeth 

 pointing outwardly, followed by a slight grey shade, which is very indistinct, 

 except above and below vein 4, where it is thickened into two grey blotches ; 

 submargiual line whitish, regularly waved, preceded and followed by dark grey 

 shading ; marginal line black, crenulate ; fringe whitish ; starting from inner line 

 a smoky grey smear runs along the lower half of cell and then above vein 4, to 

 join the blotch beyond outer line ; all the lines are darker at costa and on inner 

 margin. 



Hindwing : with a slightly curved grey antemedian shade, touching above the 

 black cell-spot ; a lunulate-dentate median line, followed by a geminate grey blotch 

 on each side of vein 4 and some grey clouds towards inner margin ; submargiual 

 line and shades less marked than in forowing. 



Underside white, with a somewhat diffuse blackish border, thinning out before 

 anal angle, with a few slight pale marks before the black marginal line ; forewiug 

 grey-speckled, with all the lines marked ; the veins beyond outer line with long 

 black dashes ; cell-spot distinct : hindwing without speckling or marking except 

 the dark border. 



Face and palpi dull fuscous ; shoulders grey ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen 

 whitish ; fore and middle legs fuscous-grey. 



Expanse of wings : 72 mm. 



2 c?c? from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Pern, 0000 ft., March 1902, wet 

 season (Ockendeu). 



It is possible that this may be the missing d of B. pudicaria Gnen. 



128. Bryoptera ruficana spec nov. 



Forewing : rough-scaled, whitish peppered with black scales, the lines and 

 shades tinged with vinous; first line at one-fourth, thick, blackish, roundly 

 bent in cell, preceded by a vinous shade ; cell-spot round, large ami blackish ; 

 median line double, squarely outbent beyond cell-spot, then obliipie ; outer line 

 blackish, edged with whitish, at two-thirds, vertical to vein 4, with the j)art 

 from 6 to 4 somewhat projecting, then oblique ; followed by a thick vinous shade, 

 which beyond cell deepens into a black blotch ; submarginal line deeply zig;«ag, 

 marked and preceded by shining whitish scales and followed by vinous, the line 

 itself edged with darker ; marginal black spots ; fringe vinous ; the submedian vein 

 and the intervals between veins 2 and 4 are sometimes longitudinally vinous, 

 interrupting the markings ; veins in places dotted with black. 



Hindwing : without basal line ; the median shades broader ; veins more 

 black-spotted. 



Underside dirty grey, tinged with reddish, the borders broadly black ; cell- 

 spots blackish ; fringe whitish ; apex of forewing white. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen mixed rufous, grey, and white. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



2 (S (S from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 6OU0 ft., November 1901, 

 January 1902, wet season (Ockeuden). 



129. Bryoptera viridirufa spec. nov. 



Foretviny : pale greenish, more or less overlaid with dull vinous mixed with 

 grey and whitish scales ; the hindmarginal area and the submedian interspace 



