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Shoulders, patagia, and thorax greenish grey, like the wings ; face paler ; 

 palpi fuscous ; abdomeu jiale grny ; antennae peppered black and white ; legs pale 

 grey mottled with dull greeu. 



Underside pale grey, with coarse black speckles, slightly greenish-tinged 

 throughout, aud with a ruore ])rououuced but diffuse fasciaform greenish shade 

 beyond outer lines ; cell-spots black ; basal area of hiudwiug with fine woolly 

 liair, like that of the pectus and femora ; fringe of the inuer margin double, 

 fine and silky, pale ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 60 mm. 



1 ? from Santo Dommgo, C rabaya, S.E. Peru, COOO ft., November 1901, 

 wet season (Ockenden). 



Apex of forewing sharp, costa at apex shortly truncate ; hindmargin oblique ; 

 ana angle of hiudwing slightly lobcd, the inner margin somewhat insinuate 

 just before it. 



306. Ira ochriplaga spec. nov. 



Fcyreiving : ochreous in the basal and marginal areas, with the median space 

 between the inner and outer lines sienna brown ; the basal space is brownish on 

 costa, tinged with brown at base and with brown-black striae along the veins ; 

 the inner line at one-fourth is double, curved, lunu late-dentate, the teeth pointing 

 inwards on the veins, all more or less obscured by the dark brown of the central 

 area ; outer line j)lainer, also Innulate-deutate, from two-thirds of inner margin 

 to a subapical brown costal blotch edged with whitish and indented on each edge, 

 the space immediately before the blotch being paler, ochreous brown ; the costal 

 space also paler brown, spotted with dark and pale ; submarginal line dentate, 

 the teeth marked with black and white scales, the si)ace along margin beyond it 

 paler ochreous ; fringe rich brown ; cell-spot round, black. 



Ilinchcing : duller, the brown area greyer and reaching from base to outer 

 line, which is darker brown, regularly lunulate-dentate, and often obscured ; cell- 

 spot black ; outer ochreous area sutfused with olive-grey, the submarginal line 

 distinct ; fringe brown ; fringe of inner margin ochreous. 



Underside brownish ochreous, or olive grey-brown, black-speckled ; cell-spots, 

 outer, and submarginal lines marked ; the outer black-clondcd on inner margins, 

 the submarginal often faint ; marginal space sometimes dusted with whitish, 

 becoming white at ajjex of forewing; fringe chestnut-brown. 



Head and thorax dark brown ; abdomen greyish ochreou.s ; the apex of 

 forewing is minutely produced, the hindmargin bulged, not angled in the middle. 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 



3 cf c?, 1 ?,from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 6000 ft., November and 

 December 1901, wet season (Ockenden). 



3oT. Ira opalizans spec. nov. 

 Forewing: pale stone-colour, washed with greenish, thickly speckled with 

 dark green (in the only ? seen these speckles coalesce into a dark cloudy 

 blotch along and beyond the inner lini') ; first line red-brown, from one-third of 

 costa, shortly oblique to middle of cell, there bent, and straight to one-third of 

 inner margin, almost hidden by the dark blotch of speckles in ? ; in the S only 

 expressed in the costa! arm ; base of costa to first line red-brown in the ? ; 



