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237. Hymenomima carneata spec. nov. 



Foretcimj : whitish, snft'nseJ throughout with pale flesh-colour, slightly black- 

 speckli'il ; the costa with short black striae ; the Hues velvety black, strongly 

 marked ; first from cue-fourth of costa, obli(pie]y curved inwards to near base 

 of inner margin, thickened at the veins ; outer line from three-fifths of costa 

 to about middle of inner margin, sinuous, marked with thick black teeth on 

 the veins, followed by a shade darker than the ground colour ; a median line 

 from a black spot on costa, outcurved and touching the black cell-spot, obsolete 

 below the middle ; submarginal Hoe wliitisb, irregularly lunulate, the lunules 

 marked internally by black scales, which beyond cell and at costa form black 

 blotches ; black marginal spots connected by black dashes with the outer teeth 

 of snbmarginal line ; fringe flesh-colour. 



IlimhciiKi : with a black line at base and a diS'use curved blackish antemedian 

 shade from inner margin to subcostal vein, followed Ijy a large black cell-spot ; 

 the rest as in forewing. 



Underside of forewing smoky fuscous, the outer margin smuky blackish, 

 the inner margin whitish ; costa ochreous, with black spots and striae ; cell-spot 

 black and large. Hind wing whitish, with only a dark cell-spot. 



Thorax and abdomen flesh-colour, the latter with a black ring at base ; 

 head pale, mixed with flesh-colour ; shoulders white, tipped with blade ; palpi 

 black externally. 



Expanse of wings : 38 mm. 



4 c?cf from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 6000 ft., November 1901, 

 wet season (Ockeuden). 



Distinguished by the coloration and the blackness of the markings. 



238. Hymeuomima rufata spec. nov. 



Forewing : whitish, thickly s])eckled and suffused with reddish brown ; the 

 lines red-brown, thick and well-marked, the inner and outer lines geminate ; 

 basal line from one-fourth of costa, angled outwards on subcostal vein, then 

 oblique inwards, twice curved, to uear base of inner margin, there joined by 

 a similar line nearer base ; median line bluntly bent in cell be3-ond the reddish 

 cell-spot, theu oblique, irregularly dentate, to two-fifths of inner margin ; outer 

 line from two-thirds of costa to three-fifths of inner margin, lunulate-deutate, 

 more or less parallel to hindmargin, followed by a slightly duller red line ; 

 snbmarginal line whitish, zigzag, preceded by a reddish brown shade and followed 

 by a less distinct one, except between veins 3 and 4, where there is a paler 

 space ; marginal line finely black, interrnj)ted at the veins, connected by black 

 dashes with the teeth of the submarginal line ; fringe reddish ochreous, mottled 

 with darker beyond the veins, which are themselves rufous ; costal edge marked 

 with dense reddish and pale striae. 



Iliiiiliriiiy : i)aler, being only striated, not suft'used, with rufous ; a dark line 

 at base ; a straight reddish antemedian line continuing the median of forewings ; 

 a blackish cell-spot ; the rest as in forewing. 



Underside rufous grey, faintly speckled ; both wings with median and outer 

 lines, the latter very strongly dark-dotted on the veins ; both cell-spots distinct ; 

 costa of forewing with dense dark striatious ; marghial area of forewing dark 

 fuscous, with a still darker central cloud ; hindwing with slight submarginal 



