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hindwing has the basal two-thirds red-brown and a series of small 3'eIIow sub- 

 marginal blotches ; in both wings the cell-spot is black in a yellow circle. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



1 cJ, 1 ? from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Porn, 6000 ft., the ? dated 

 January, the c? June 1902 (Ockendeu). 



As the darker ? was taken in tlie wet season and the paler c? in the dry, 

 the diiFerence between the two examples may not be really sexual, but seasonal 

 only. 



175. Isochromodes miniata spec no v. 



Forewiiig : deep red, finely speckled with blackish ; costa at base dark ; first 

 line at one-third, marked by blackish blotches on subcostal, median and snbmedian 

 veins ; cell-spot black, forming part of a triangular black blotch stretching from 

 vein 3 to the subcostal and outwardly lunate-edged before the submarginal line 

 of the ground-colour, which is followed by a blackish blotch at apex, and two others 

 on veins 3 and 4 ; the outer line is marked below the large blotch by black spots 

 on veins 1 and 2 ; fringe red. 



Hindwing : with a quadrate black anal blotch, formed apparently, as in 

 forewing, by waved contiguous shades ; a small black cell-spot, followed by a 

 larger spot on vein 6. 



Underside dull rosy pink ; the dark blotches of upperside slightly showing 

 through ; cell-spots black ; fringe like wing. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen red like the wings : base of abdomen with a black 

 dorsal blotch. 



Expanse of wings : 36 mm. 



1 S from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 6500 ft., October 1902, dry 

 season (Ockenden). 



176. Melinodes subapicata spec. nov. 



Forewing : yellow, thickly freckled with reddish orange ; costa and lines 

 brown-black ; first line straight from before one-third of costa to one-third of 

 inner margin ; outer line straight from three-fourths of costa to four-fifths of 

 inner margin ; marginal area filled with a smoky fuscous suffusion except a clear 

 oval space at apex and another, somewhat blurred, at anal angle ; marginal line 

 finely black ; fringe yellow, finely chequered with black beyond veins ; cell-spot 

 black. 



Hindioing : without first line ; outer line curved parallel to hindmargin ; 

 marginal area as in forewing, but the space at anal angle discoloured, leaden grey ; 

 cell-spot black ; inner margin and fringe pale ochreous. 



Underside whitish ochreous, with a faintly darker tinge towards base, and 

 striated with fuscous ; costa of forewing, lines, and marginal area smoky black ; 

 aj)ex of both wings with an oval whitish blotch ; that at anal angle of hindwing 

 pale leaden grey. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; abdomen in anal half cinereous, with 

 pale ochreous anal tuft ; collar and base of shoulders brown-black ; underside 

 of abdomen and legs pale ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



1 c? from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 6OOO ft., April 1002, end of 

 wet season (Ockenden). 



