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Hindiciiiij : rosy grej-. with a ferrnginons patch at anal angle, and the inner 

 margin cream-coloured with coarse black speckling ; a dark crinkled postmedian 

 line from three-fonrths of costa to above anal angle, ending iu a black spot, pale- 

 edged thronghont, the edging at the angle becoming broad and white ; an indistinct 

 brown cell-spot ; snbmarginal dots black ; fringe concolorous, greyer towards apex. 



Underside of forewing paler chestnut ; the cell-spot whitish, caudiform on 

 lower half of discocellular ; costa marked light and dark ; outer line fine, curved, 

 starting from a bright white spot at costa; apex blue-grey ; more than half the 

 inner-marginal area dull whitish, reaching anal angle ; hindwing with black 

 cell-spot, quartered with white ; inner-marginal third white, with black striae ; 

 outer line marked by white spots on veins ; two black submargiual dots below 

 apex. 



Face, thorax, and abdomen chestnut ; fillet and shaft of antennae white ; palpi 

 and vertex olive-fuscous ; legs speckled fuscons and whitish ; pectus and abdomen 

 beneath chestnut : metathoracic tuft grey and black. 



Eximnse of wings : 44 mm. 



(? c? from Huancabamba, Cerro de Pasco, Peru (BOttger). 



172. HygTochroma catenulata spec. uov. 



Forewing : stone-grey, tinged with pale pink in basal half and deeper towards 

 margin ; thickly speckled with fuscous and olive ; first line olive-green, from costa 

 at nearly one-third to before one-third of inner margin, angled in cell, then straight ; 

 median line starting from costa at middle as a broad outwardly oblique red-brown 

 streak, sharply angled at vein 6, then obliqne inwards to before middle of inner 

 margin, iu the form of an acutely dentate-lunulate olive-green line, the teeth 

 touching the outer line, and the interval between the lines pale olive-green, and 

 forming a dark blotch at inner margin; outer line lunulate-dentate, outwardly 

 edged with pinkish white, running from inner margin close beyond and j'arallel 

 to median line, sharply angled on vein 7 close before apex, and retracted to costa 

 where it forms an obliijue brownish green streak, followed on costa by a triangular 

 greenish mark edged with white scales, beyond which the extreme apex is dark- 

 speckled ; an indistinct pale submarginal line, with darker clouds on each side ; 

 fringe greenish ; cell-spot small, dark green. 



Hindwing : paler, especially along costa, two lunulate-dentate green lines 

 from beyond middle of inner margin not reaching costa, and a cloudy greenish 

 grey submarginal shade. 



Underside yellowish ochreous, coarsely spotted with dark brown ; the lines 

 dark brown ; costa of forewing olive with finer markings ; a submarginal olive- 

 brown shade containing a small tawny blotch before middle of hindmargin, which 

 is narrowly lilac-grey ; apex pale grey ; fringe olive-green and grey ; hindwing 

 with fewer and finer speckles, with a broad olive-brown marginal border, the 

 ma/rgin grey towards apex ; dark cell spots on both wings. 



Face and palpi olive-grey ; vertex, collar, and shoulders pinkish grey, the 

 shoulders also olive-tinged ; patagia and thorax pale stone-grey ; abdomen pinkish 

 ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



4 (?(? from Charaplaya, Bolivia, 1300 m., June 1901 (Simons). 



Closely resembling H. subusta Warr. 



