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I'lilpi (liirk slate, with tij)s of scfimeuts whitish; lace whitish; vertex, 

 thorax, luid abdoiiieu shity grey ; shoulders and ]iataj;ia with yellow scales 

 intermixed ; fore and middle tibiae and tarsi mottled black and white. 



Expanse of wings : 3!J mm. 



A pair from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 6O11O ft., January 10ii2, 

 wet season (Ockeuden). 



101. Spargania semipallida sjiec. uov. 



Forewing : smooth, pale olive-green, crossed by deeper green lines, starting 

 from dark costal spots edged with pale scales ; these spots are nine in number — 

 three on the basal patch, three on the central fascia, and three submarginal, the 

 last two being often insignificant ; the line nearest base, that edging the basal 

 patch, the three lines of the central fascia, and that from the seventh spot are 

 marked with blackish across the wing, and the last forms a black lilotch beyond 

 cell : the onter line of the central fascia in the sinus beyond cell is marked with a 

 white Innule ; the central fascia is suffused with deep green : marginal line black, 

 interrupted ; fringe green, chequered with black beyond veins. 



Hindirinci : whitish, with the base, an obscure central band, and the marginal 

 border smoky grey, the last sometimes tinged with reddish towards apex ; fringe 

 whitish, mottled with black. 



Underside of forewing dull red, with black striae ; a patch of whitish scales 

 beyond cell ; the upper half of band beyond central fascia, the costal edge, some 

 spots at ajiex, and a large blotch in hindmargin below middle, yellow ; fringe yellow 

 chequered with black beyond veins and tinged with red in middle. Hindwing 

 yellow, densely striated with red ; the marginal border, au obscure postmedian 

 line, and the cell-spot marked with blai'kish and red. 



Palpi, head, thorax, and abdomen jiale and dark green; face pale ochreous ; 

 legs mottled fuscous and ochreons. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



3 c?c? from C'hanchamayo, June— August Uml (Hoffmanns). 



Distinguished from ■§. rolorifern and ititensa, to both of which it is allieil, by 

 the whitish hindwings. 



Urocalpe gen. nov. 



Vori'irinq: costa arched at base, indented at middle, strongly convex before the 

 dejiressed apex ; apex blunt ; hindmargin shortly vertical to vein 7, then obli(jue 

 and faintly sinuous ; anal angle rounded ; inner margin rather convex, and shorter 

 than outer margin. 



Ilindwing : with apex rounded, anal angle sr[uare ; hindmargin with a small 

 tail at tlie end of vein 3. 



Antennae filiform, shortly i)ubesceiit ; forehead rough-scaled below ; jjalpi 

 porrect, decumbent, rough-scaled, terminal segment curved ; tongue and frenulum 

 present ; hindtibiae with four spurs. 



Neuration as in I'er/zoma ; areole of forewing double ; discocellular of hindwing 

 biangulate, the radial from the lower outward angulation. 



Tyi)e Urocalpe nigriplaga spec. nov. 



Allied to Pleni'jrinpsis Warr. and Rliiiuira Warr., but diftering from both in 

 the outline of wings. 



