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forming two grcv lit-Its; the first tour all more or loss irregnlurly dentate, tlic 

 fifth blacker aud mure distinct, angled inwards below subcostal and ontwards on 

 vein 6, then inwardly waved to beyond middle of inner margin; the white bands 

 preceding and following each with a blackish central thread and edged with 

 blackish ; siibmarginal line whitish, irregnlariy dentate, j)receded by the brick-red 

 fascia, the marginal sjiace beyond dark grey ; marginal line blackish, marked with 

 a whitish dot at the ends of the veins, the intervals between them with fine blackish 

 longitudinal streaks from the pale onter belt to hindmtirgin ; fringe white with 

 grey mottling beyond veins. 



Iliiultriny : with the lines all blackish grey; the onter line of central fascia, 

 as in the forewing, thickest. 



Underside whitish, suffused in forewing with grey, with two central lines and 

 a marginal band grey, the latter broad in forewing, broken u[> in the hindwing. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white, much si)eckled with blackish; face with a 

 grey spot in the centre ; palpi white internally, reddish-tinged externally; antennae 

 fuscous, with basal fifth white. 



Expanse of wings : 27 mm. 



1 ? from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, OfiOO ft., November 1001, wet 

 season (Ockenden). 



186. Tephroclystia spurcata spec. nov. 



Foffirinfi : dull brownish, with dull fuscous suffusion ; crossed by a series of 

 darker waved lines which are most distinct on the costa, where they are wider; 

 a paler brown fascia angled below costa at one-third and two-thirds ; snbmarginal 

 line white, lunnlate, preceded and followed by darker ; fringe brown ; cell-spot 

 large, black, formed of raised scales ; veins dotted black and jiale. 



Ilhidiciny : brownish grey, with the markings plain along inner margin only ; 

 a dark cell-spot ; marginal line black, interrupted. 



Underside brownish cinereous, with cell-spots plain and the lines indistinct. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish grey. 



Expanse of wings : ::*6 — 30 mm. 



Common from Chili. 



The wings are broad, and the hindmargin of hindwing inegular, truncate at 

 anal angle and nearly straight from vein 3 to (i. 



1^7. Tephroclystia trigenuata spec. nov. 

 Forewing: pale ashy grey, darker grey along the hindmargin; the lines 

 black, thicker towards costa ; first from one-fourth of costa to one-fourth of inner 

 margin, bluntly angled in cell aud on submedian fold ; secoml from before middle 

 of costa to middle of inner margin, bluntly bent in cell and on submedian fold, 

 in the cell touching a large black cell-spot ; third from two-thirds of costa to 

 three-fourths of inner margin, obliciue outwards and bluntly bent at vein (i, angled 

 below vein 4, aud again inwardly angled on submedian fold ; between these 

 lines, which form the usual central fascia, less defined transverse lines are 

 denoted by black scales and shading ; the first and second are connected along 

 submedian fold by a black dash ; the pale snbmarginal line is scarcely indicated, 

 except towards inner margin ; the darker grey shade preceding it is tinged with 

 rufous ; marginal line black ; fringe grey ; on costa near base is a black spot, 

 ajiparently the cumnieuceuient of an obscure basal line. 



