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Face and jialpi dark brown ; vertex pale ocbreous ; thorax and abdomen 

 like wings ; anal tufts ochreons ; legs ocbreous, brown-speckled ; forelegs brown 

 in front. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



1 (? from Jalapa, Mexico. 



Tbe antenoae are qnite simple ; otherwise the insect might well be taken 

 for an Isochromodes. 



195. Tetracis inquinata spec. nov. 



Foreunng : glossy white, tinged and sprinkled with olive-grey and a few 

 black atoms ; costa striated with olive ; inner and median lines diffuse, wavy, 

 reddish brown ; inner at one-fonrtb, median just beyond middle, approaching outer 

 line on inner margin ; outer line fine, reddish, nearly straight, from two-thirds of 

 inner margin to vein 7 before apex, there retracted and curved to costa, the angle 

 followed by two dark blotches to costa, continuing the direction of the line ; the 

 line is thickened at the veins and finely edged with paler; it is followed by an 

 outwardly Innulate-dentate-edged red shade, which fills np most of the apical 

 area ; a blackish spot between veins 3 and 4, from which a grey streak descends to 

 above anal angle ; fringe red ; cell-spot black ; the extreme base of wing and the 

 space between median and outer lines are tinged with darker olive-grey. 



Ilindwing : with the line continued and marked darker on the veins ; a slight 

 median shade from cell to inner margin ; inner two-thirds whitish, speckled with 

 grey and black ; outer third with a reddish grey cloud except at apex. 



Underside whitish, thickly dark-speckled, without reddish suffusion except 

 towards middle angle of forewiug ; cell-spots black. 



Head and thorax ochreous and rufous ; abdomen paler ; fillet and shaft of 

 antennae white ; the latter with black dots ; palpi with third segment blackish 

 with a white tip. 



Expanse of wings : 52 mm. 



1 ? from Santo Domingo, Caraba3-a, S.E. Peru, 6000 ft., January 19ii3, wet 

 season (Ockenden). 



Both wings have the hiudmargin crennlate, the hindwing more deeply. 



Subfamily PROSOPOLOPHINAE. 

 196. Exelis? fumida spec. nov. 



Forewing : dull smoky cinereous, covered with dark scales ; the lines blackish ; 

 first from one-fourth of costa to one-fifth of inner margin, vertical, or slightly 

 oblique outwards, to median vein, thence oblique inwards ; outer line from three- 

 fourths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, parallel to hindmargin, but slightly 

 projecting between veins 3 and 6, somewhat thickened ou the veins and obsoletely 

 curved between them ; a black cell-spot midway between the two lines, traversed 

 by a dark median line, which below middle is parallel to and equidistant from 

 the other two lines; submarginal line pale, interrupted, preceded by a slightly 

 darker band ; a black marginal line swollen between the veins ; fringe concolorous, 

 with paler base. 



Ilindwing : like forewiug, but without the basal line. 



Underside paler cinereous, with black cell-spots and smoky darker marginal 

 borders. 



