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llab. Venezuela ; Colombia ; Ecuador. 



In the Triug Museum 23 c?c?, 11 ?? from: Merida, Venezuela (Briceno : 

 tiijif): Aroa, Venezuela ; Chiriqui ; Rio Dagua, Colombia (Rosenberg); Paramba, 

 Ecuador (Rosenberg). 



A series in coll. Charles Oberthiir. Also in other collections, generally mixed 

 up with some other species. 



48. Protoparce tucumana spec. nov. (PI. V. f. G. S). 



S- i^imilar to small specimens of F.peUenia and scututa ; head, thorax and 

 forewiug decidedly paler ; stigma, the pale lines of the forewing, and the fringe 

 almost white, not yellowish. Metanotum white in front. Abdomen above without 



white dots at the apices of the segments, underside somewhat butfish. Forewing, 



above : the black discal patches C — R^ contiguous, closer to cell than in the allied 

 species ; discal double line outside the black patches sharply angled at R^, the 

 interspace between the two lines more or less white, these discal lines and the 

 jiostdiscal one, which is also partly bordered with white, obviously concave between 

 C and R^, the jjosterior portion of the postdiscal line, between M- and internal 

 margin, sharply defined, continuous, thinner behind, the space inclosed by it 

 whitish. 



S. Tenth abdominal tergite slenderer than in scutata ; harpe intermediate 

 between that of pellenia and scutata, the large dentate lobe more curved than in 

 the former, very much less so than in the latter (PI. XXXVI. f. Hi). 



? . Unknown. 



Early stages unknown. 



Uab. Tucuman. 



1 S (tj/pe) in Mus. Tring ; another c? from Salta in the Museum at Buenos 

 Ayres ; a third from Paraguay in the Musee Royal d'Hist. Nat., Bruxelles ; a fourth 

 in the collection of Herr Neuburger, Berlin. 



49. Protoparce ochus. 



*Sji>Jd>ix ochus Klug, Neiie Sr.hm. i. p. 4. t. 3. f. 2 (1836) (Mexico ; — Mus. Berlin) ; Boisd., Cons. Lep. 



Guatemala p. 74 (1870) (Honduras) ; id., Sjiec. Gen. Lep. Het. i. p. 82. n. 1(3 (1875) (Mexico ; 



Honduras). 

 Miirrosila instiia Clemens, Jinmi. A,:. SH. PhiUi<l. (2) iv. p. 1C4. n. .57 (185;i) (Honduras). 

 Miicrosila ochus, Grots, Pioc. Ent. Sue. Phihid. v. p. 08 (180.5). 

 I^rotoparce ochus, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. Loud. ix. p. 607. n. 6 (1877) ; Druce, Biol. Ccnfr. Amrr., 



Lep. Het. i. p. 20. n. 2 (1883) (Mexico ; Cordova ; Jalapa ; Honduras ; Guatemala ; Costa 



Eica) ; id., I.e. Snppl. p. 314 (180()) (Cuesta de Misantla ; Orizaba ; Tabasco ; Belize ; Costa 



Rica) ; Pitt. & Bioll., Lep. Het. Costa Rica p. 11 (1897) (Irazu) ; Kaye, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loml. 



p. 139 (1901) (Trinidad). 

 Phlerjethonfms ochus, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 688. n. 11 (1892) (Mexico : Honduras) : Roth.sch , 



Nov. ZooL. i. p. .541 (1894) (Aroa). 



(J ? . A strange-looking insect on account of the clayisli tawny ochraceous colour 

 of the upjierside of the forewing and thorax and of the occiput. The pal[)ns is 

 similar in shape to that of rustica, ; the antenna of the ? shows distinct traces of 

 fasciculated ciliae. The first segment of the foretarsus has externally ;> or (i longer, 

 moderately stout, spines, and a number of smaller ones. Without iiulvillus. 



<?. Tenth abdominal tergite (PI. XXVII. f. 13. 14) strongly convex at 

 end, hooked, pointed ; the sternite bent upwards at end, sinuate, the two lobes 



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