( 577 ) 



Underside less heavily dnsfed ; oell-spots and marginal dots distinct ; the 

 green shades only indicated. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings, the last thickly dnstcd with dark ; 

 lace and shoulders brownish tinged ; legs ochreons, spotted with dark. 



Expanse of wings : 52 mm. 



1 ? from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Pern, 65U0 ft., October 1 902, dry 

 season (Ockenden). 



This may possibly ])rove to be an abnormally marked ? of M. bclla Warr., but 

 the lines and colouring, instead of being, as in that species, distinct and clear, are 

 here all bat absent. 



187. Nematocampa ? confusa spec. nov. 



Forewing : yellow, covered with fine close orange striae ; costa and marginal 

 line brown ; lines ill defined, orange ; first from one-third of costa to one-third of 

 inner margin, slightly curved and oblique inwards ; outer from three-fonrths of 

 costa, incurved below middle to before two-thirds of inner margin ; submarginal 

 line represented by a small brown blotch on vein 5, and a brown blotch in an orange 

 shade at anal angle; fringe yellow, brownish below middle ; cell-spot small, black. 



Hindwing : without any distinct line ; cell-spot black ; marginal line brown. 



Underside smooth jjinkish yellow ; cell-spots and marginal lines brown ; fore- 

 wing with broad brown shade from three-fourths of costa outcurved to margin and 

 ending in anal angle ; apical area whitish. 



Palpi externally brown ; face yellow, brown above ; vertex bright yellow ; 

 collar brown ; thorax and abdomen like wings. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



1 ? from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Pern, OOUO ft., November lOOl, 

 wet season (Ockenden). 



The hindmargins of both wings are crennlate ; it may be an Isochromodes, but 

 the palpi are very short for that genus. 



188. Nematocampa cuprina spec. nov. 



Foreidng : bright reddish orange, with a few blackish striae ; the veins and 

 diseocellular narrowly black ; costa dnll brown with darker striae ; lines dark 

 brown ; first oblique inwards, from one-third of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, 

 preceded by white dashes on veins ; outer line vertical, but bent slightly at vein 1, 

 broad at costa, from two-thirds of co.sta to two-thirds of inner margin, followed by 

 bluish white wedge-shaped marks on veins, which between veins 3 and .5 develop 

 into a blotch ; marginal area dark brown, containing two large marginal blotches 

 of ground-colour, one at apex, the other at anal angle ; marginal line black, 

 festooned ; fringe like wing, with dark dashes beyond veins ; an interrupted obscure 

 submarginal line. 



Ilindwiny : with a dark line at base ; outer line fine, angled at vein 4, then 

 concave to inner margin at two-thirds, followed by whitish dashes on veins ; sub- 

 marginal line indicated by dark blotches between veins ; veins 3 and 4 thickened 

 to margin. 



Underside washed with yellow, and with brown striae ; the lines and onter 

 shades dull brown ; marginal blotches whitish. 



