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below costa, then vertical, its outer edge broadly dentate on the median vein 

 and again on snbmedian, concave between ; exterior line obliqne from two-thirds 

 of inner margin towards apex, the inner arm, which is deeper green, passing 

 from vein 7 vertically to the costa, marked on veins 7 and !S by a blackish 

 point ; tlie large annnlar cell-mark also olive green ; between it and the outer 

 line a blood-red sinuous line outwardly dentate on the veins, almost touching 

 outer line at inner margin ; marginal line lunulate, dark green ; fringe shining 

 whitish, cheijuered with red beyond the veins. 



Jlindmn;/ : whiter along costa and at base; cell-spot large and round, 

 greenish, with a black central dot ; outer line double, greenish, curved ; preceded 

 by a reddish sinuous streak from inner margin to cell-spot, and followed by a 

 dentated green subraarginal shade ; marginal line and fringe as in forewing. 



Underside whiter, with fewer speckles and without much red tinge ; forewing 

 with the costal striae, the discal ocellus, and the two lines pale green ; a red 

 cloud on costa before outer line, stretching across the line towards the middle 

 of hindmargin : hindwing with large black cell-mark, and the two outer lines 

 green. 



Face and palpi white below, tinged with red above ; vertex and shoulders 

 ochreiius ; thorax and abdomen whitish ochreous, the latter with fine dark 

 dusting; legs ochreous spotted with dark green. 



Expanse of wings : 45 mm. 



1 i from Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E, Peru, (iMdii ft., November 19U1, 

 wet season (Ockenden). 



Closely resembling .1/. ti//i>ariii Feld., but with much more complex markings. 



:U;]. Nematocampa completa spec. uov. 



ForeiriiKj : straw-colour, sti'iated with rod-brown, and with the veins red ;, first 

 line at one-third, thick and straight, not curved ; outer third of wing red-lirown, 

 with an oval apical space of ground colour, the inner edge also forked at middle 

 on costa ; discal line and a curved median line red ; fringe wholly red. 



JliiKhriiif/ : wholly red-brown, except a narrow median costal blotch of ground 

 colour, reaching to below the origin of vein 4; a slightly paler submarginal space 

 above anal angle, followed by three black wedge-shaped spots before hindmargin 

 between veins 'Z and 4 ; fringe red. 



Underside with margin of forewing as above; hindwing with red-brown margin 

 narrowing oft' to anal angle, the basal two-thirds siraw-colour. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen straw-colour with brown speckles ; the face paler. 



Both wings are angled at middle of hindmargin. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



1 c? from Fambilar, Ecuador (Flemniing & Miketta). 



344. Paracomistis subtractata Warr. 



Until now the only s])ecimen of the species I had seen was the original S ty[ie 

 from Snriiuim, described in Xoc. Zoo/, iv. p. 408 (18U7). Two ? ? lately received 

 from S.E. Pern differ both inter se and from the c? ; but the peculiar oval pale space 

 containing the cell-spot of hindwings will always serve to identify the species. In 

 the best-preserved example the ochreous ground colour is very thickly covered 

 with brownisli striae and speckles ; the outer line with its angle is very slender 

 and indistinct, but there is a very distinct median shade, not seen at all in the cj. 



