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base of forewiiig streaked with orange fulvous; costa of hiudwing striated with 

 fulvous ; outer lines orange fulvous ; forewing with red-brown apical triangle with 

 a white sjiot at middle ; fringes as above ; cell-spot fulvous. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow ; face and shoulders orange-tinged ; dorsal 

 segments red-speckled ; abdomen beneath yellow ; pectus white ; legs fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : J, 22 mm. ; ? , 2(i mm. 



1 6, 1 ?,from .Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, (JODi) ft., November, 

 December 1901, wet season (Ockendcn). 



299. Herbita aemula spec. nov. 



Forewing : dull red-brown, scantily speckled with blackish, mainly along costa 

 and inner margin and towards base ; the lines a shads darker than the ground 

 colour ; first from beyond one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin, 

 bent in cell, preceded on the veins by small white spots ; cell-spot black, followed 

 by a very obscure darker median shade ; outer line from two-thirds of inner margin, 

 oblique and very faintly curved towards apc^c, angled on vein 7, and retracted to 

 costa, followed by a somewhat lustrous pearly line, marked whiter on the veins 

 and on costa forming a snow-white spjt ; submargiual line represented by some 

 whitish and dark scales below costa beyond angle of outer line, hardly distinguish- 

 able below ; between veins 2 and 4 a large ditfusely edged black blotch beyond 

 outer line ; fringe concolorous. 



Ilinf/winr/ : with costa pale ; the outer line of forewing continued just beyond 

 middle ; cell-spot black in a grey ring ; submargiual line zigzag, very obscure, 

 its internal margin in some lights faintly shining ; fringe of inner margin pale 

 ochreous. 



Underside duller red, with the markings faintly shown. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; pectus and abdomen beneath reddish ; 

 legs mottled olive fuscous and pale. 



Expanse of wings : 50 mm. 



1 3 from Huatn.xco, Vera Cruz. 



Hindmargin of forewing gibbous at middle ; in Microgonia ru/aria Warr., which 

 it mimics in a remarkable way, this margin is straight. 



300. Herbita cervina s])ec. nov. 



Forewing : brownish fawn ; costal edge whitish, with black dots ; a dull 

 yellow diffuse patch at end of cell containing the small black cell-spot, preceded 

 by a dark shade and followed by a broader more diffuse cloud ; a grey semicircular 

 blotch on costa before apex, white-edged inwardly, indented outwardly ; the costa 

 beyond it truncate; a very faint darker submargiual shade from it parallel to 

 hindmargin. 



Himhcing: with small black cell-spot and indistinct lunulate-dentate post- 

 median line. 



Underside paler fawn, with small blackish speckles ; a faint postmediau line 

 on forewing ; the costal spot outlined with dark ; fringe darker ; cell-spot black. 



Face and palpi brown-black ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; fillet 

 finely whitish ; legs fawn-colour ; foretibiae and tarsi dark fuscous with whitish 

 spots. 



