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242. Melanoscia albimacula spec. uov. 



Forewing : Miickish green, varied wiUi large and small white sjiots ; the costa 

 striated with white ; the large s[iots are six ia number, all more or less round ; 

 three in the snhmedian interval, near base, below the origin of vein 2, and ou 

 hindmargiu ; two more on the hindmargiu, at apex, and between veins 3 and 4 ; 

 the sixth, the largest of all, immediately beyond the discocellnlar. In the cell is a 

 smaller triangular spot. The smaller sjiots, also round, follow the course of tue 

 usual lines, and are placed between the veins, 3 beyond the basal spot, representing 

 inner line ; S forming a sinuous line passing beyond the large discal spot, and 

 7 submarginal ; a few smaller irregular white marks occur in ditierent parts, 

 especially along inner margin ; fringe wliite, marked darker above and below 

 middle ; discocellular mark linear, blackish. 



Ilimhcing : with basal two-tUirds white, with dusky striae, which are darker 

 and denser below median vein ; cell-spot black ; a broad black marginal border 

 with a large white sjiot at apex and anal angle and smaller one between. 



Underside like ui)per, but duller. 



Head and thorax greenish fuscous ; tips of patagia white ; abdomen dark, 

 mixed with whitish. 



Expanse of wings : 50 mm. 



2 cJc? from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Pern, Gt)00 ft., November lyol, 

 wet season (Ockendeu). 



243. Melanoscia felina spec. nov. 



Foreiving : olive-ochreous, speckled with blackish green, and more or less 

 obliterated by the dark blackish green suffusion ; basal area blackish green, 

 containing a velvety dark blotch at base of costa, and another below the median 

 vein, and edged by an obscurely double lunulate line, the outer edge being nearly 

 vertical ; this is followed by a vertical white sjiace, rnninug across cell from 

 subcostal vein to inner margin, generally narrow throughout, but in one examjjle 

 much broader Ijelow the middle ; beyond it the cell is occu])ied by a large oblong 

 velvety black blotch, including the discocellular mark, followed by a S(|uare white 

 Idotch between veins 4 and 6 ; outer line sinuous, dentate-luuulate, from two-thirds 

 of costa to middle of inner margin, running outwards and bounding the white blotch 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; this line is broader below the middle, is edged outwardly 

 with whitish or ochrcous, and is preceded below middle by another dark lunulate 

 line ; nuirginal area filled nj) with dark, traversed by a paler submarginal line, often 

 very obscure, preceded by deeper blotches, and sometimes marked by ochreous or 

 whitish spots, in all cases ending in a whitish, tadpole-shaped, apical blotch ; all 

 the veins are ochreous, and in the jialer examples the space between veins 3 and 4 

 remains olive ochrcous ; fringe dark, while at apex, and with an ochreous patch at 

 anal angle. 



Jlindicing : mottled, smoky grey, with a dark cell-spot, a dark postniedian 

 line, and two broad, jiartially coalesceut, submarginal shades; the fringe white. 

 In the ? the basal half of hindwing is white, sjieckled, and at base and along 

 costa suffused with smoky grey, followed by a broad blackish marginal border. 



Underside duller, the dark markings all blurred, the white blotches distinct. 



Head, antennae, centre of shoulders, thorax, and abdomen yellow ochreous ; 

 sides of shoulders, the patagia, the jialpi and legs externally blackish green. 



