288 LITHOSIA.DJE. 



wing dark reddish brown, the base whitish. Underside of fore wing 

 reddish brown, the costa and terminal area tinged with oehreons 

 and striated with red-brown, the medial, postmedial, and sub- 

 terminal bands with the whitish markings on subcostal area only, 

 then indistinct and red-brown ; bind wing with the costal area 

 tinged with ochreous and with three ill-defined red-brown bands 

 on costal area, and a maculate snbterminal band from costa to 

 vein 3. 



5 . Head and thorax ochreous yellow slightly mixed with red- 

 brown: abdomen witb small patch of red-brown hair at base of 

 dorsum ; fore wing ochreous yellow striated with rufous, no dark 

 points at base, the maculate whitish bands broader and continuous, 

 the curved white discoidal band produced to a point on vein 5, the 

 dark patch beyond the cell angled inwards below its extremity, the 

 subterminal band defined on outer side by dark red-brown spots ; 

 bind wing ochreous yellow tinged with red-brown, a diffused brown 

 discoidal lunule. a subterminal band with waved edges from below 

 costa to submedian fold, excurved between veins 5 and 1; the 

 underside similar but witb the markings indistinct. 



Ifab. W. Colombia, San Antonio (Pahnrr) 2 d",2 $ type; 

 Monte Tolima ( Fassl ) . type t $ irregularis in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exp., d 44, $ 56 millim. 



1 123 c. Opharus decrepidoides. (Plate LI. fig. 14.) 

 Opharus decrepidoides, Roths. Nov. /no], xvi. p. 276 (1909). 



$ . Head pale yellow with black spots above frons and on vertex 

 of head ; palpi black, the extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints 

 ochreous; thorax oehreons mixed with red-brown, the teguhe and 

 patagia with black spots; pectus and legs ochreous, the femora 

 and tibia? with black spots and the tarsi ringed with blackish ; 

 abdomen orange-yellow, the basal half of dorsum clothed with pale 

 brown hair followed by a series of black spots, lateral and sub- 

 lateral scries of blackish spots, the ventral surface with brown 

 patches except towards base. Fori' wing ochreous thickly striated 

 with red-brown forming diffused dark patches on costal half of 

 antemedial and medial areas and above and beyond end of cell; an 

 antemedial maculate yellow band, angled outwards above median 

 nervure, then very oblique ; a medial maculate band, the patch in 

 eel! produced to points on inner and outer side in discal fold in 

 which there is a black streak before it and the patch in submedian 

 interspace angled inwards at submedian fold ; a postmedial series 

 of sp it-, angled outwards ai vein (i, incurved below vein 1 and the 

 sped in submedian interspace V-shaped and connected with the 

 medial band and with a blackish streak beyond it in submedian fold ; 

 two subterminal lunules below costa. oblique marks above and 

 below vein and lunules above and below vein 2, all defined by 

 dark brown and with some dark brown suffusion beyond them; a 

 slighl waved dark brown terminal line defining a series of small 

 yellow spots on the termen and cilia which arc brown. Hind wing 



