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edge wavy, vertical; iuner edge of central fascia, sinuous, vertical, at oue-third ; 

 outer edge from two-thirds of costa to three-fifths of inner margin, projecting at 

 veins and 4, insinuate between and on submediau fold ; marginal area above 

 vein 4 mucli darker, forming a large triangular projection beyond cell ami a smaller 

 rounded one above vein 6 ; antemarginal space pale )'ellow with a darker yellow 

 shade down it ; three pale grey streaks on costa before aj)ex ; fringe yellow and 

 grey ; costa finely dotted with yellow. 



Ilindwinij : pale yellowish, tinged with pale grey, excejit along a bniinl 

 postmedian curved band ; cell-spot faint ; fringe yellowish. 



Underside pale leaden grey ; costa dotted with yellow ; an orange subcostal 

 streak from base to ajiex"; the apical veins orange; an obliijuc pale straw-coloured 

 outer band; cell-spot black; fringe yellow, dotted with grey. Hiiidwing whitish, 

 striated with grey ; a blackish cell-spot and broken postmedian liue, followed by 

 a )>road yellowish band ; veins and fringe yellow. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish ; face brownish grey ; tibi.ie and tarsi of 

 fore ;iiid middle legs brown-speckled. 



Expanse of wings : $ 22 mm. ; ? :.'0 mm. 



1 i^'i ? ?, from Santo Domingo, Curabaj-a, S.E. Peru, liniin ft., .lauuary 

 VMvl, wet season (Ockeuden). 



r^iJ. Hypolepis prunicolor spec. nov. 



Foren'inji : dark violet-grey, tlie markings deep purple-brown, narrowly and 

 obscurely edged with golden yellow scales; basal patch quite small, purple-brown; 

 followed by a broad baud of the ground colour, the centre of which is occupied by 

 a dark band marked by a deep blotch on costa and iuuer margin but interrupted 

 in middle ; all these dark markings edged with deep yellow scales ; central fascia 

 with inner edge straight and oblique from just before middle of costa to before 

 middle of inner margin, its outer edge diffuse, projecting on vein and at middle, 

 from two-thirds of costa to just beyond middle of iuner margin, where the fiiscia 

 is narrow ; the inner half of the fascia only purple-browu ; beyond the second 

 band of ground colour the outer line is waved and partially lunulate ; submarginal 

 line lunulate, the lunules filled uj) with purple-brown, that beyoud cell large and 

 coalescing with the lunule of outer line; fringe yellow, with j)urple-brown mottling 

 beyond veins. 



Hindtrivff : wholly dark brownish fuscous. 



Underside of forewing purplish grey, the costa speckled with dee]) yellow ; 

 a dull orange subcostal streak. Hindwing yellowish, with long dull purjilish grey 

 striae ; a postmedian band and hiudmarginal border purplish grey ; cell-spot 

 linear, velvety black. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish brown ; ji.-dpi deej) dull yellow ; abdomen 

 beneath and legs dull yellow ; foretibiae and tarsi mottled i)urplisli and yellow. 



Exi)anse of wings : 23 mm. 



1 (S from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, (iOOO ft., November lUUl, 

 wet season (Ockeuden). 



I'^'l. Hypolepis sordida spec. nov. 

 This species is very near to //. rfisfanea Wan-., but <litt'ers in the following 

 jioiiits. The red-brown tinge of cdstanen is reiilai-ed by dark fuscous ; tlie inner 

 edge of central fascia is less acutely angled at mediiin, the uiijier half being more 



