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coalescing, form a bold, comma-shaped mark, and the two spots of the 

 inner branch of the bifurcating snbmarginal series, which are nearest 

 the costa of the primaries, and are relatively large and conspicuous, 

 especially the one nearest the costa. 



Expanse of wings, 31 mm. 



There are several specimens in the National Museum collection 



Genus ALPENUS, Walker. 

 ALPENUS TRIFASCIATA, new species. 

 (Plate VII, tig. 10.) 

 Male— Anteuun', eyes, and front black. Collar, patagia, and thorax 

 very pale ashen. Abdomen yellowish, with a row of seven small black 

 spots on the top and a similar series on the sides. Legs margined 

 with black upon the upper side. The anterior wings are pale ashen, 

 nearly white, and have three transverse macular bands, one near the 

 base, one at the end of the cell, and one on the limbal area. These 

 bands are very sharply angulated about the region of the median nerv- 

 ule, and the spots are here produced along the nervules as lines. The 

 si'.ots composing these bands are all black, and are largest upon the 

 costa and near the inner margin of the wing. The posterior wings 

 liave a round blackish spot at the end of the cell, one near the outer 

 angle, and another near the anal angle. The under side is somewhat 

 darker than the upper side, and almost all of the spots of the upper 

 surtace are obliterated, or only very faintly reappear upon the lower 



side. 

 Expanse of wings, 30 mm. 

 Type in the National Museum collection, from Kilimanjaro. 



Genus TERACOTONA, Butler. 



TERACOTONA CLARA, new species. 



(Plate VII, lig. 12.) 



Male.— AntemiiB light in color. Tibiic of anterior pair of legs bright 

 pink. Head, collar, patagia. and thorax very dark brown. Kegion of 

 metathorax clothed with long pinkish hairs. Abdomen pale brown, 

 annulated and spotted on sides with black. Forewings uniformly 

 brown, not so dark in color as the thorax, thickly strewn with blackish 

 scales, and with a large black spot at the end of the cell and a f\iint 

 curved transverse bUick line beyond the cell. Posterior wings white, 

 tinged with pink and yellowish on the costa and outer margin, and 

 with a black spot at tlie end of the cell. On the under side, the ante- 

 rior wings are lighter than upon the upper side, and are broadly 

 washed with pink upon the costa. They are darkest in color near the 

 apex. None of the markings of the upper surtace reappear, except the 

 spot at the end of the cell, which is very distinct. The posterior wings 

 are on the under side as upon the upper. 



