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olive : a pale yellnwisb ocbreous elongated blotch occupies two-tbiids of the lon-er 

 half of cell. 



llimlwinq : gloss}' grey, with traces of a darker iiostniediati shade and darker 

 margin ; fringe grey. 



Underside of forewing fuscons-olive, with the costal region broadly reddish and 

 the costal marks of n]iperside reproduced, the series of spots being all faintly 

 discernible. Hindwing dull reddish, speckled with olive fuscous, with diffuse central 

 shade, distinct postmcdian Innulate line, and outer maruin broadly fuscous. 



Abdomen concolorous with hindwing ; thorax, shoulders, face, and terminal 

 segment of palpi reddish and pale; vertex, collar, and patagia dark olive, the same 

 colour as the sjiots ; front of forelegs red. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



1 c? frdui Popayan, ( 'olombia (Lehmann). 



Hypolepis gen. nov. 



An iiffshoot of I'fuiliofles. The abdomen of the c? beneath is furnished with a 

 double row of large spatulate scales meeting keelwise along the middle, from 

 between which arises a long double curved pencil of hairs, or thick tufts oi 

 huir. The hindwing bears a partially scaled furrow along the submedian fold. 

 Lastly the nenration differs : the discocellular of the hindwing i.s not biangulate, 

 but vertical above and oblique below, the radial rising from above tlie centre. The 

 antennae arc thickened, subserrate, the teeth clavate. 



Type : lliijioli-jiin strigosa spec. nov. 



110. Hypolepis albistriga spec. nov. 

 Fore/ri//(/ : dark brown ; the lines and all the veins (except vein .5) whilisii 

 ochreous ; basal line vertical, below middle curved outwards ; inner line straight 

 and broad, from middle of costa to just before middle of inner margin, closely 

 preceded from subcostal vein by a narrower slightly waved line ; outer line double, 

 at three-fourths, ontcurved between vein 7 and the submedian fold, both arms 

 somewhat crinkled ; submarginal line irregularly zigzag, forked below apex, all 

 but touching outer line on vein 5; a marginal line of whitish scales ; fringe 

 dark i>rown, cheijuered with whitish between the veins. 



Ilixdiring : whitish ochreous, darker along hindmargiu : fringe ochreous, 

 chcpiered with black beyond veins, and with a dark fine line along base. 



Underside pale blurred grey ; a broad submarginal streak and veins G and T 

 narrowly orange-red ; apical area dusted with i)ale ochreous ; inner and outer lines 

 jiale, the latter dark-edged towards costa; fringe ochreous with velvety black 

 mottliiigs beyond veins. Hindwing whitish, mottled with brown ; a brown ])ost- 

 median waved line, costal and subcostal veins orange ; fringe yellow, with black 

 line along base. 



Face brown ; vertex ochreous ; shoulders and jiatagia brown with ochreous 

 tips ; abdomen ochreous, brown along dorsum, with the segmental divisions 

 ochreous ; legs brown, speckled with ochreous ; scales beneath abdomen and the 

 tufts ochreous ; (palpi broken). 

 Expanse of wings : 2(i mm. 



1 6 from Santo Domingo, Carabava, S.Fl Peru, (iOoti ft,, November I'.'nI. wet 

 sensOD (Ockenden). 



