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101. Apicia bbttgeri spec. uov. 



Forewing : pale pearl-grey, faintly waslied with olive, with very fine dark 

 striae ; lines brownish olive, fine ; first from one-fourth of costa, strongly outcurved, 

 bent on median, below which it is semi-obsolete ; onter line fine, edged externally 

 with paler, from three-fifths of inner margin oblique towards apex, acutely angled 

 on vein 7, and retracted to a broad olive costal streak at three-fourths ; a siiuihir 

 but longer streak at middle of costa indicates a median line ; a dark spot before 

 apex the beginning of a submarginal line ; cell-spot minute ; fringe concolorous. 



Ilindicinij : paler, tinged with green only along hindmargin, where there are 

 traces of a zigzag submarginal shade ; median line obsolete above cell. 



Underside pale grey, more thickly striated and speckled ; an olive suffusion 

 before hindmargin of both wings ; cell-spots minute ; oblique line of forewing 

 indicated only. 



Head and shoulders olive-greenish ; patagia, thorax, and abdomen pearl-grey. 



Expanse of wings : 39 mm. 



2 Jc? from Hnancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Pern, 6U(JU— 10,000 ft. (Bottger). 



162. Apicia citrina spec. uov. 



Foreioing : pale lemon-yellow, without markings of any kind, except an oblique 

 enter line, pale brown, from two-thirds of inner margin towards apex, bent at 

 right angles on vein 7 and retracted to costa ; a small brown cell-spot ; fringe 

 concolorous. 



Ilindwixij : with the line crossing just before middle. 



Underside paler ; the outer line on forewing fine and curved, uot angled, 

 below costa. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



1 <? from Duaca, Estada Lara, Venezuela. 



163. Azelina albisecta spec. nov. 



Forewing : pinkish grey-brown, covered with olive striae, which are thicker 

 and stronger along the costa ; first line at abont one-third, forming three outward 

 curves, finely blackish, edged inwardly by some greenish white scales ; outer line 

 from four-fifths of costa to four-fifths of inner margin, vertical to vein 5, then 

 bluntly bulged on 3 and 4 and again on 1, with a sinus between, narrowly black, 

 with thick black spots on the veins, finely edged outwards with greenish white ; 

 it is preceded by a broad brown band of uniform thickness, edged inwardly by a 

 darker shade ; a largish black spot on discocellular, placed immediately above 

 a streak of greenish white scales running along and beyond the lower half of 

 cell ; a zigzag submarginal line of greenish white scales ; marginal festoon black, 

 edged with pale ; fringe brownish, crenulated, with two darker lines separated by 

 a paler one. 



Hi7idwing : paler brown, with the postmedian band fainter beyond a cloudy 

 dark cell-spot ; at the anal angle a dark cloud, edged outwardly by a streak of 

 white scales ; veins paler, speckled with black. 



Underside of forewing olive-brown, thickly black-dotted above the median and 

 vein 2, dead white below ; marginal area beyond submarginal line powdered with 



