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1 h2. Psaliodes vinosata spec. iiov. 



Fori'wi/iy : viuous fuscous ; the lines wliite : basal liue obscure, iudistiuctly 

 double, vertical ; iuner line double, nearly vertical ; outer line from nearly three- 

 fourths of costa, obli(iue inwards and indented on veiu 7, ontcurved to vein '.i, 

 then Ininilate inwards, and forming an acute inward angle on submedian fold, 

 edged by a fine black line, and this again in its lower course by a second 

 white and black line ; central fascia deeper vinous ; snbmarginal line hardly 

 expressed ; marginal line black ; fringe whitish, mottled dark beyond veins. 



lUndwmy : dull grey, darker towards hiudmargin, with a dark cell-spot, 

 and traces of two dark lines on inner margin above anal angle ; fringe as in 

 forewing. 



Underside of forewing blurred grey ; an orange-red subcostal streak ; a short 

 thick dark streak from costa before apex ; apical region striated with jiale ; 

 marginal line and fringe as above. Hiudwing white, thickly striated with grey ; 

 cell-sjiot large, blackish ; a lunulate-dentate curved jiostmedian line and traces 

 of a submarginal beyond. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen vinous fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 22 m. 



1 ? from Agualani, S.E. Peru, lo,(iOO ft., September 19U1 (Ockenden). 



153. Pterocypha abbreviata spec. nov. 



Forewing : fuscous ; the lines and markings blackish ; basal area to one- 

 half of wing covered with an olive-grey pile ; basal patch small, edged by two 

 dark lines ; tlie usual central fascia placed before the middle, the lines forming 

 its limiting bands meeting at costa to form two blackish triangular blotches ; 

 the space beyond it, between middle of wing and submarginal line, is traversed 

 by three acutely dentate dark lines, which below the middle form dark and pale- 

 dashe.s on the median nervules ; submarginal line irregularly waved, preceded 

 and followed by darker tints ; a short black apical streak of two lunules ; marginal 

 festoon black ; fringe dark fuscous. 



Uiruhcing : fuscous ; with a blackish straight postmedian line, followed by 

 traces of three other dark lines in the dark fuscous marginal area ; fringe pale 

 round apex. 



Underside ochreous grey with dark speckling ; both wings with black cell- 

 spots and three black curved postmedian lines, the outermost thickest and 

 irregularly crennlate ; forewing with black submarginal band separated by a 

 pale submarginal line from the black-speckled marginal area, which has no pale 

 spaces at apex or middle ; hindwing paler throughout. 



Head and palpi fuscous ; vertex pale olive ; thorax and abdomen olive, much 

 mixed with fuscous and black ; the segments of the abdomen obscurely black- 

 s])otted. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



2 cJcJ I'rom Sapucay, near Villa Rica, Paraguay, August and September 1901 

 (Foster). 



Distinguished by the position of the central fascia, and l)y the broad short 

 forewings with rounded apex ; also by the absence of the white apical spot 

 beneath. In another example the forewings are tinged witli olive-green and 

 flesh-colour, and all the markings are clearer. 



