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llindwinq : with outer liiip only. 



Undcrsiilu white without markin<;s : costa of forewiug; bronzy grey. 

 Head and shonklers yellowish ; thorax, patagia, and abdomen white. 

 Ex})anse of wings : c?, 35 mm. ; ? , 35 — 40 mm. 



3 (?(?, 3 ? ? from Santo Domingo, Oarabaya, S.E. Pern, fiOOo ft., November, 

 December I'.Mil, January 10i)2, wet season (Ockenden). 



221. Nipteria astyochiodes spec. nov. 



ForeiciiKj : white, somewhat discoloured along costa, with a linear grey 

 cell-spot on discocellular, and two waved grey lines ; first vertical from costa a little 

 before the middle, straight above the median vein, then waved and oblique inwards ; 

 outer line from four-fifths of costa, ontcurved at first, then parallel to hindmargin ; 

 a thin marginal line and the veins grey ; fringe white. 



Ilindwiioi : with a single waved grey marginal line. 



Underside white ; the costa of forewing broadly grey towards base. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white, the head and shoulders yellowish-tinged. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



2 <?cj, 3 ? ?, from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Pern, (iOno ft., November, 

 December 1901, wet season (Ockenden). 



In markings a perfect mimic of Astijockia claelin Druce and pkilyra Drnce ; bnt 

 the discocellular of forewing is straight, and the hiudwing of c? without any tuft 

 of hairs on inner margin near base. The hindwing, as in pliilyra, is also slightly 

 protuberant at middle of hindmargin. 



222. Nipteria flaviplaga spec. nov. 



Foreir'nuj : greyish fuscous, thickly speckled with dark fuscous; the lines 

 dark fuscous, with darker dots on the veins ; the first at nearly one-third running 

 a little outwards to the median, then vertical, bent inwards on submedian fold ; 

 outer line from four-fifths of costa straight to vein 6, then oblique and straight 

 inwards to two-thirds of inner margin, marked beyond vein 5 by an irregular small 

 yellow blotch ; cell-spot distinct, black ; fringe brownish fuscous. 



Hindwing : wholly blurred dark grey, with traces of a dark cell-spot and of a 

 curved postmedian dark line. 



Underside of forewing dark fuscous and striated only along costal and 

 hindmargin, the whole interior being paler and the line faint : the hindwing, 

 on the other hand, darker than above, with the line and cell-spot dark and distinct ; 

 the yellow spot of forewing as on up[)erside. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous like wings. 



E.\panse of wings : 40 mm. 



1 ? from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, Uouo fi., December I'Jiil, wet 

 season (Ockenden). 



223. Nipteria flebilis spec. nov. 

 Forewinfi : dull cinereous grey, spotted and suffused with darker grey along 

 costal and hindmargin and in the basal area ; the costal edge with some white 

 marks in the apical half ; the two lines dark : the first obscure, from one-fourth of 

 costa to one-third of inner margin ; the outer line thick, straight and slightly 

 waved, from four-liftlis of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, edged outwardly 

 with a faintly paler line; marginal area dark above, paler below, the limit of the 



