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less oblique than in A. obliquata; while wanting all hoary or pale 

 scales, the thorax above is dark and unicolorous in A. densa. The 

 genus seems allied to Nouagria. 



GORTYNA, Ocks. 

 Gortyna parpurifascia, n. sp. (Plate 7, fig. 51, 9 •) 



5. Size, moderate. Bright ochre-yellow and purple. Head,undertho- 

 racic surface and legs light purple. Palpi purplish, beneath with pale 

 scales. Antennae testaceous, tufted with white scales at base. Collar 

 shaded with purple at the sides and in front, the scales becoming deep 

 yellow behind, A prominent purple tuft centrally on the thorax, be- 

 hind the prothoracic scales. Thoracic disc deep yellow, becoming pur- 

 ple behind where the scales are raised. Patagia deep yellow, shaded 

 with purple in front and terminally. Abdomen pale, tufted on the 

 dorsum, cinereous, with a purplish cast, the latter more prominent be- 

 neath. 



Anterior wings slightly interspaceally excavate along external mar- 

 gin, deep yellow, powdered with red and shaded with purple. Base 

 deep yellow. Basal half line reddish, geminate, its inner line travers- 

 ing straightly the basal space ; its outer, more sinuate, edging inwardly 

 a broad purplish shade filling up the sub-basal space except at internal 

 margin. This shade is margined outwardly by the transverse anterior 

 line which is geminate, the two lines composing it becoming fused in- 

 feriorly, and running at variance and more widely apart at costa. Or- 

 bicular small, round, white, more or less stained by the ground color 

 of the wing. Situate inwardly obliquely with regard to the orbicular, 

 and below the median nervure, lie the intermediate and claviform spots, 

 also white, moderate, the intermediate more or less stained by the 

 ground color of the win"-, both annulate with black and more or less 

 coalesced, held apart by the red scales clothing the sub-median fold. 

 All the nervures faintly marked by red scales over the median space. 

 Median shade red, slightly irregular, running as usual from the costa 

 downwardly and outwardly obliquely to the lower extremity of the dis- 

 cal cell beneath the reniform spot, thence inversely obliquely to inter- 

 nal margin, lleniform, distinctly annulate with red, of the ground 

 color of the wing, upright and but little constricted, a parallelogram 

 in shape, not resolved into clustered white dots as in allied species, but 

 more or less edged with white above and below inwardly. Transverse 

 posterior line double, consisting first of a narrow red line interspace- 

 ally very slightly waved, then of a broad and prominent even blackish 

 bund, the presence of which is a strong specific character. The line 



