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black, pR'oodeil t)y a darker blotcb beyond cell ami in suliiuediaii interspace ; 

 pairs of black dasiies alonp; margin at end of veins, which are here finely black ; 

 fringe olivc-greeii, black-mottled beyond veins ; cell-spot linear, blackish ; the 

 submedian fold and vein are both dotted with black, and there is a projecting 

 tooth of black scales from the middle of inner margin. 



Iliiuluing : whitish towards costa, jiale flesh-coloured ochreons tinged with 

 grey along inner and liindmargins ; the tuft of hairs in fold ochreons like the 

 ground colour. 



Underside of forewing pale grey, somewhat glossy, without markings, e.xcept 

 along eosta and hindmargin: of liiudwing ochreons as above. Thorax and abdomen 

 ochreons and grey ; face pale ochreous ; palpi olive fuscons. 



Expanse of wings : 28 — 30 mm. 



2 S<S from Tueuman, October 1001, 700 metres (Dinelli). 



Probably a variable species, as the only two examples differ considerably. 

 The scheme of markings is somewhat involved, and they are moreover obscured 

 by grey and olive i)atches of shading. To some extent the description of 

 improbaria Schans agrees with them, but the hindwings are totally different 

 in colonilion. 



157. Sparg'ania daira. 



Epirrhoii (liiira Druce, Jilnl. C'enli: Am., Lrj>. II. I. ii. p. lUO. t. 06. fig. 2(5. (J $ , Mexico. 

 Sjmrganiu liellipicia Warr., Auv. Zool. viii. p. 408. J ? , Colorado. 



The discovery of the identity of these insects was made accidentally, when 

 I was comparing the types of S. American insects in Mr. Schaus's collection. 

 The figure of c/aira in the Biologia does not give a very accurate idea. Mr. 

 Schaus informed me tliat this is not by any means the only instance in which 

 when collecting at high altitudes in Mexico he has met" with insects also 

 taken on the monntains of N. America. 



l.")S. Spargania intensa spec, no v. 



Forewhiff : dark olive-green, without any yellow tinge, crossed by deeper 

 green lines which are more or less obsolete, except along costa, where they 

 are represented by black-green spots edged with gilded yellow; these spots 

 are ten in number ; three on the basal patch ; the 5th and fith represent the 

 edges of the central fascia ; the 4th and 7th, both small, indicate the dark 

 lines of the two paler bands on either side of the fascia ; the 8th, 9th, and 

 10th form the commencement of the usual three snbmarginal lines; the lines 

 edging the central fascia, and a third between them, not reaching costa, are 

 marked darker across the wing, the fascia itself being filled with much deeper olive- 

 green ; tlie outermost line is swollen into a black patch beyond cell ; all 

 the darker markings are finely traced with gilded yellow; a black festooned 

 marginal line ; fringe green, mottled with black beyond the veins. 



Ilindwimj : deep red ; the base and inner margin dull blackish ; a black 

 marginal border, interrupted below middle ; a black marginal festoon ; fringe 

 pale ochreons, reddish-tinged, and marked with black beyond veins ; cell-spot 

 blackish. 



Underside blood-red ; upper part of band beyond central fascia of forewing 

 forming a yellow bracket-shaped mark, followed by a black snbinarginal band 

 from below costa to vein 4; some strigae below cell, the eell-si)ot, and a spot 



