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1492. Hydroeciodes leucopis, n. sp. (Plate XCII. fig. 1.) 



cJ. Head and thorax rufous ; antennae ringed with white towards 

 base ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing 

 brown, the interspaces suffused with fiery red ; an indistinct waved 

 antemedial line ; claviform absent ; orbicular an ill-defined brown, 

 spot with two white points on it ; reniform elliptical, pure white 

 defined by brown and with small brown centre ; postmedial line 

 very indistinct, somewhat dentate, and with some white points on 

 the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some ochreous points beyond it on costa ; traces of a pale 

 waved subterminal line ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing ochreous suffused with brown ; the underside paler, the costal 

 area thickly irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Peru, Huancabamba, 1 S type. Kvp. 30 millim. 



1493. Hydroeciodes leucogramma, n. sp. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 7.) 



2 . Head and thorax purplish pink tinged with brown ; pectus 

 and legs grey-brown ; abdomen greyish fuscous, the extremity 

 tinged wirh pink, the dorsal crest tipped with white. Fore wing 

 pur[)lish pink ; the veins black-brown ; the area beyond the cell 

 suff"used with black-brown ; the subracdian interspace and base of 

 inner margin yellow thickly irrorated with fiery red ; an indistinct 

 oblique waved antemedial line angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular 

 and reniform yellow thickly irrorated with fiery red, the former 

 round, the latter with punctiform white line on its lower and outer 

 sides and point at its upper inner angle ; medial line represented 

 by a striga from costa and an oblique waved line from beyond 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line strongly den- 

 tate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; 

 subterminal line white, obsolescent towards costa, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and slightly incurved below vein 3. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown ; the underside rather paler, with slight discoidal point and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Brazil, Kio Janeiro, 1 $ type. Organ Mts., Tijuca (-S. R. 

 Wagner), 2 2 ; Paraguay, Meva Germania. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus TIRACOLA. 



Type. 



Tiracola, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 3al plugiaia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint tliiekly snaled, the 

 3rd short, oblique ; frona smootli ; eyes large, rounded ; antennaj of niaie 

 ciliated ; head and thorax clothed witli hair and a few scales, tlie prothorax 

 with triangular ridge-like crest, the nietathorax with spreading crest ; abdomen 

 rather dorsally flattened, with rough hair at base and dorsal crests on basul 

 Begmeuts. P'ore wing with the apex somewhat produced, the termen obliquely 

 curved and the cilia crenulate ; veins o and 5 iVoni near angle of cell ; (3 iroin 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form tlie areole; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with the cell short; vein 2 from near angle; .3, 4 stalked ; 

 6 obsolescent from luiddlo of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly 

 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



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