P \ I. EOfclOLIS. 1'Vc LRCT1 L. 165 



purplish while suffused with olive-yellow except on costal and 

 inner edges, the costal edge and veins scarlet, more strongly 

 towards costa ; antemedial line black, strong at costa, excurved 

 below costa, oblique to median nervure, then inwardly oblique and 

 excurved a,i vein I ; medial line black and rather diffused, oblique 

 from below costa to median nervure, then inwardly oblique and 

 slightly incurved; a black spot at upper angle of cell; postmedial 

 line black, slightly excurved below costa, excurved at veins 4,5, 

 then oblique. Hind wing pale yellow, the costal area tinged with 

 crimson. Underside yellow, the costal area of both wings crimson 

 except at apex; hind Aving with black discoidal lunule. 



II ah. S.E. Peku, Carabaya, S. Domingo, 2 6 , type f J in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp, 32 millim. 



*1972 i. Palgeomolis gaiieppi. 



Palseomolis garleppi, Botha, Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 175 (1910), & xviii. pi. 3. 

 f. 3. 



d . Head and thorax pale rufous ; abdomen ochreous tinged with 

 rufous. Fore wing pale rufous ; antemedial line black, giving off 

 a short streak on costa towards base, excurved at median nervure, 

 then oblique ; the inner margin with black streak from ante- to 

 postmedial line ; a rather diffused blackish medial line, angled out- 

 wards on median nervure, then oblique; an oblique black discoidal 

 bar, expanding into a small spot above and slightly angled inwards 

 at median nervure ; postmedial line blackish, oblique to vein 6, 

 incurved at discal fold, excurved to vein 3, then incurved and 

 again slightly excurved below submedian fold. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with rufous, a slight blackish lunule on upper discocellular ; 

 the underside more strongly tinged with rufous and with stronger 

 discoidal lunule. 



llab. Bolivia, R. Tanampaya (Garlepp), type f 6 in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 2G millim. 



1973. Pygavctia spraguei. 



Larva. Barnes & McD. Can. Ent. xliv. p. 190. 



Pale green shading to pale orange at sides; traces of a dark 

 dorsal line and of a pale subspiracular line ; tubercles pale, the base 

 of hairs black; the body thickly clothed with long silky plumed 

 pinkish grey hair, the hairs on the dorsal line blackish; spiracles 

 creamy white ringed with black ; prolegs reddish ; head pale 

 reddish. Pupates in a coarse cocoon of hair and earth on or just 

 below the surface of the ground. Food-plant, Eiipliorbia. 



*1975tf. Pygarctia grossbecci. (Plate LXX. fig. 11.) 



Pygarctia grossbecki, Davis, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. viii. p. 59 (1913). 



$. Head and tegulae orange-yellow, the antenna: black, the 

 palpi blackish except towards base; thorax grey -brown, the upper 

 edge of patagia yellow towards base ; abdomen deep orange with 



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