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veutro-distal luai'ijiu is turned inward, dentati', and ddrsally prodimod into a lonu' 

 sharp tooth; the tliin dorsal edge is irregnhxrly toothed (PI. XXXVI. f. 11). 

 Penis-sheath with a small siibapical tooth (I'l. XXIX. f. 4S). 



i'ppfiside of body and forewing bistre colour, mottled witli grey and tawny 

 olive ; head with a creamy white streak above eye, continued to })ronotnin ; meso- 

 thoracic tegnla with a thiu whitish lateral border, along wliicli runs an indistinct 

 lilackish brown line ; abdomen rather paler, with mesial tufts of sid)erect scales ; 

 a series of white apical dots at each side as in brontes, rusfica, and some others, 



segments 1 to 3 with a yellow lateral ]iatch bordered with black. Forewing : 



outer margin sinuate at M-, the undulate and zigzag lines well marked, discal and 

 ])ostdiscal ones curved as in sexta, iuters[)ace S( -' — SC'' of second and tliird discal 

 line white, the other anterior interspaces between these two lines, as well as at the 

 distal side of the tbird one, more or less greyish white, interspaces between first 

 and second tliscal lines, which are heavy, not sericeous black as in lucetius, but 

 scarcely darker than the rest of the disc; postdiscal line heavy, developed to a 

 patch upon II' and behind M^, followed by a large, ill-defined, creamy white patcti 

 at R- ; the creamy white snbmarginal zigzag line heavy, but broken between the 

 veins ; creamy white fringe-spots large ; stigma nearly white, round ; oblii[ue 



apical line heavy, bordered with creamy white in front. Hindwiug blackish brown, 



tiie ])ale bands very obscure, being clearly marked only in abdominal fold ; fringe 

 sjiotted with creamy white. 



Vndersiife: First and base of second segment of palpus creamy white ; breast 

 and femora nearly white, til)iae and tarsi brown ringed with white, abdomen mure 



dirty white, with the usual brown mesial spots. Wings bistre colour, more mummy 



brown distally, hindwing greyish white in proximal half of abdominal fold ; three 

 darker discal bands, which are very faint on forewing, better marked on hindwing, 

 wliere tliey remain parallel down to SM^. 



? . Unknown. 



Length of forewing : <S , 55 — GO mm. 



Larva and chrysalis unknown. We expect the larva to differ from tiie ordinary 

 obliquely striped type, judging from the larva of albiphicja. 



Hah. Colombia. 



In Tring Museum 4 cJc? from: R. Dagua (W. Rosenberg) {tii/>i'); Juntas, 

 ( 'auca (M. de Matlian), end of 1897 to Jan. 1S9S. 



The specimens from the Cauca valley we received from Mons. V\\. Oliertlinr, 

 wlio has a fine series of this insect, all males. 



50. Protoparce leucoipgiila sj). nov. (PI. LXV. f. 3. 6). 



S- Allied to (lalica, in colour intermediate between it and i-usfica, wings 

 narrower. First segment of foretarsus shorter than the tibia, with three very long 

 external spines. Antenna slender, shorter than in ilalira and thinner, scaling 

 white at base. Frons with white transverse band connecting tiie bases of the 

 antenna as in rustica ; sides of frons and anterior edge with cinnamon scales. 

 White lateral stripe of mesonotum continued over pronotum ; collar besides with 

 three huffish white spots. Abdomen above nearly as in rustica, three yellow side- 

 patches, two widely separated rows of white dots, a mesial row of rather indistinct 

 black dots, posterior tergites more extended chalky white tlian in r/i.st/ca and <I<dira. 

 Underside of body chalky white ; first segment of pal|)us (except a stripe along 



