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two-tliirds, obliqne ontwards and bent in middle, then incurved and towards inner 

 margin donble ; it is followed by two green horizontal streaks in and above cell 

 before the snbmarginal line, which is pale greenish and inwardly angled beneath 

 costa, interrupted in midwing, and ending in a narrow green line before anal angle ; 

 apical and anal areas darker purplish ; the median shade, slightly before the 

 middle, is deep purplish, concave above and below median and angled outwards 

 on median and submedian veins ; cell-spot jiurple ; dark purple marginal lunnles ; 

 fringe rufous grey with a paler base. 



Ilimhring : wholly olive-fuscous, with traces of two dark lines, approximated 

 on costa and diverging towards anal angle ; the marginal border deeper ; marginal 

 lunnles black ; fringe luteous grey with paler base. 



Underside of forewings above median smoky fuscous, beneath whitish ; an 

 obscure oblique black median line followed by a pale patch in end of cell ; a broad 

 black snbmarginal fascia to anal angle ; apex testaceous with black marginal 

 spots ; hindwing greenish testaceous, speckled with black ; a black cell-spot, 

 indistinct and interrupted postmedian line and snbmarginal fascia swollen at 

 middle, and interrupted above ; marginal spots black. 



Head and thorax dark purplish grey and green intermixed ; abdomen 

 cinereous, tinged with green. 



Expanse of wings : 56 mm. 



2 SS from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 0000 ft.. May 1902, dry 

 season (Ockenden). 



145. Oenoptila ignea spec. nov. 



Forewing : orange, covered with deep reddish fulvous striae, which in the ? 

 are suffused together and almost hide the orange ground-colour ; a broad brown 

 costal streak nearly reaching apes ; the lines dark fuscous ; first straight, from 

 one-third of costa to two-fifths of inner margin ; median from costa beyond middle 

 straight to vein 4, running in shortly along that vein, then straight to inner 

 margin at three-fifths ; outer line from five-sixths of costa, obliquely curved 

 outwards to near hiudmargin below vein 4, then curved inwards, but the lower 

 half very obscure ; the orange ground-colour most visible above middle, forming 

 especially a small patch before first line and another beyond the median line ; fringe 

 dull red with darker chequering ; cell-spot black. 



Iliiuhciny: with a straight antemedian line and outer line like that of forewing. 



Underside blurred, dull red with dull fuscous striations ; all the lines dark. 



Face and palpi dull red ; vertex brown ; shoulders grey tipped with red ; thorax, 

 patagia and basal segments of abdomen red ; rest of abdomen cinereous. 



Expanse of wings : 35 mm. 



1 c?, 1 ? from Santo Domingo, (Jarabaya, S.E. Peru, 0000 ft., January 1902, 

 wet season (Ockenden). 



In forewings vein 11 is stalked with 7, 10, 8, 9, 11 anastomosing with 12. 



146. Oenothalia nummifera. 



C'ertima nummifera Warr., Nuc. Zool. viii. p. 485 (I'JOl). 



This species, described originally from a ? , was provisionally referred to the 

 genus Certima ; lately I have seen a pair from Santo Domingo, S.E. Peru, of 

 which the 3 has pectinated antennae, but is otherwise in all points exactly like 

 the ? ? . They must be transferred to Oenothalia. 



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