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inliabit the higher altitudes of the Andes, but I have not sufficient 

 material to discuss their relations to each other. 



OXYTENIS LAVERNA Druce. 



Pampaconas River, August, 1911. 



FamUy SYNTOMID^. 



COSMOSOMA AUGE Linnaeus. 



Santa Ana, 3,000 feet, August 4, 1911. i 



Family LITHOSIID^. 



AKDONISSA ADSCITINA Dognin. 



Cuzco, 11,500 feet, July 9, 1911. 



FamHy ARCTIID^. 



VIRBIA ELISCA, new species. 



Fore wing grayish black; hind wing dull black with large orange 

 patch on costa on outer half except apex, runnmg down almost to 

 termen below vein 1. Beneath, hind wing as above; fore wing with 

 a large orange patch from close to inner margin from end of cell to 

 near base. Expanse, 25 mm. 



Type.— C&t. No. 15633, U.S.N.M., Huadquina, 5,000 feet, July 24, 

 1911. 



Allied to V. jiuminea Schaus, but without red on fore coxae. 



VISBIA CATAMA, new species. O 



Fore wing brownish black. Hind wing orange, with narrow outer 

 black border, widened a little at apex and submedian; a little black 

 at base of costa. Fore wing below with the disk broadly orange; 

 costa and base narrowly and outer margin broadly grayish black. 

 Abdomen and legs black. Expanse, 32 mm. 



Type.— YemsilQ, Cat. No. 15634, U.S.N.M., Huadquina, 5,000 feet, 

 July 24, 1911. 



Near V. leTimanni Rothschild, but the abdomen entirely black. 



HEMIHYALEA MELAS Dognin. 



Cuzco, 11,500 feet, July, 1911. 



ECPANTHERIA PERUVIENSIS Hampson, 



Santa Ana, 3,000 feet, August 5, 1911. 



ALTIM^NAS TAPINA, new genus and species. 



Hind wing with vem 4 present; 6 and 7 from apex of cell; fore 

 wing with veins 7 to 10 stalked, 6 from angle of cell; proboscis 

 aborted; hind tibiae without medial spm's; fore tibiae without claw; 

 eyes not hairy; vestitm-e of head and thorax of rough woolly hairs; 

 eyes small, sunken in the vestiture. 



Thorax with long blackish hairs. Fore wing densely powdered, 

 blackish on pale ocherous, leaving patches in cell, on either side of 

 incised black discal spot and an outer band, curved over cell; a ter- 

 minal row of diffuse black spots; fringe pale. Hind >ying pale 



