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U'ti. Urocalpe uigriplaga spec. nov. 



Foreu'ing : pale oclireous ; basal patch black-brown, its edge runniug straight 

 and oblique from one-third of costa to one- third of inner margin, traversed by 

 obscnre dark and pale lines, and containing below the median vein an oval space 

 of pale gronnd colour ; a black-brown snbapical j)atch on costa, formed of three 

 outwardly oblique short streaks, angled at vein 7 ; from the first four fine brown 

 nearly parallel lines run to middle of inner margin slightly bent at vein 2, 

 followed by a pale band with a sliglit central line ; marginal area pale brown, 

 marked above with traces of three or four lines with jialer intervals, slightly darker 

 on veins and forming a geminate black-brown waved patch before anal angle on 

 inner margin ; fringe pale beyond a dark marginal line ; an apical pale streak ; 

 cell-spot small, brown. 



Iliiulwim/ : with three or four waved grey transverse lines and darker grey 

 marginal border, blackish at anal angle and traversed by a pale submarginal line ; 

 fringe pale, except at anal angle, where it is blackish. 



Underside of forewing below middle blurred, above it ochreous, with the lines 

 and markings red-brown ; cell-spot brown in a pale ring ; basal patch edged by 

 a broad brown angulated fascia. Hind wing with all the lines and shading coarsely 

 black-brown ; cell-spot black in a large pale space ; submarginal line waved, 

 bluish-grey. 



Head, thorax, basal and anal segments of abdomen black-brown ; intermediate 

 segments creamy ochreous with a brown dorsal spot on each ; shoulders and patagia 

 with some ochreous scales. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



1 cJ from Chanchamayo, June — August KtiJl (Hoffmanns). 



Subfamily EUCESTIINAE. 



163. Callipia aurata spec. nov. 



Forewing: black; the costa dull brown with black streaks; a deep yellow 

 blotch limited towards base by the subcostal vein above and submedian fold below ; 

 the outer edge rounded and irregular, leaving the subcostal vein at the discocellular, 

 and curving between vein 4 and the submedian fold within three millimetres of 

 outer margin ; fringe black with brown marginal dots at end of velus. 



lliiuhniig : wholly black with a greenish tinge. 



Underside the same in forewing, but the inner margin duller, grey-brown ; 

 the apical area varied with long slender brown striae, and wholly brown round 

 apex. Hindwing deep black, with the veins finely ochreous, covered thronghout 

 with fine long yellow striae ; a patch of yellow scales at base of costal and 

 median veins ; a spot of ochreous scales at ujiper end of discocellular ami at 

 end of vein 7. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dull black ; a streak of yellow hairs from sides 

 of pectus over shoulders andj base of patagia ; sides of thorax and femora with 

 yellow scales. 



Expanse of wings': 62 mm. 



1 c? from Popayan, (Colombia ( Lehmann). 



