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117. Hypolepis castanea spec. nov. 



Forewing : dark chestnut-brown ; the basal patch, central fascia, and marginal 

 area darker, more fnscons-tinged ; all tliese darker areas edged by white lines, 

 traversed eacii by a black thread ; edge of basal patch cnrved and waved ; inner 

 edge of central fascia waved; onter line lunnlate-dentate, the teeth pointing base- 

 wards, indented beyond cell and on snbmedian fold ; a dark linear cell-mark ; 

 snbmarginal line, sometimes obscnre, forming the limit of a large triangnlar dark 

 patch between ape.K and vein 4 and lunnlate-dentate thence to anal angle; fringe 

 chequered, dark and light brown. 



Hindwing : dark fuscous brown ; the cell-spot dark ; fringe ]iale, with dark 

 spots. 



Underside of forewing dnll brownish grey ; costal edge dotted with dark ; an 

 orange subcostal streak ; cell-spot dark ; markings partly showing through. 

 Hindwing paler, with brownish striae; a dark cell-spot, and traces of a dark 

 postmedian line. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen chestnut-brown ; antennae dark fuscous : abdominal 

 scales and tufts ochreous. 



E.xpanse of wings : 3i) mm. 



■3 cJc?, 4 ? ?, from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, Novemlier, Dc'cember 

 1901 (Ockenden). 



1 1 s. Hypolepis conspersata spec nov. 



Forewing : dnll brown, with darker, more fuscous, markings ; basal patch 

 small, fnscons, edged by a white, black-liordered, nearly vertical line; central 

 fascia fuscous, edged on each side by a white Innnlar line traversed by a black 

 one, the outer edge more or less parallel to hindmargin and indented beyond cell; 

 cell-sjKit obscure, blackish ; space between basal patch and central fascia and that 

 beyond onter band occupied by brown shades ; a black sharply lunulate snbmarginal 

 line, the lunules above vein 4 partially filknl in with black ; an interrupted black 

 marginal line ; fringe yellowish, mottled with dark ; the wing, and esjiecially the 

 marginal third, is thickly covered with minute pale and dark striae. 



Hindwiiig : dull brown, paler towards base, with obscurely darker postmedian 

 and snbmarginal lines from inner margin ; cell-spot dark ; fringe pale yellow, 

 with dark mottling. 



Underside of forewing cinereous, dappled with yellowish; an orange subcostal 

 streak ; cell-spot dark, followed by a pale ()atch ; hindmargin above middle 

 darker. Hindwing yellowish, striated with brown, with two slightly miirked lines ; 

 cell-spot linear, conspicuous. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fnscons brown. 



Expanse of wings : 2!) mm. 



1 ? from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Pern, &>W ft., May IW)2, dry 

 season (Ockenden). 



Very near to H. castanea and sonlida, but apparently distinct. 



119. Hypolepis plumbesceus spec. nov. 

 Forewing : pale leaden grey, glossy ; the basal patch, central fascia, and 

 marginal area somewhat darker, decidedly darker along the edges, where they 

 are mixed with brown, and all edged with a p;iler line ; biisal patch suudl, its 



