302 Walter Kothschild. 



imperfect l)and.s of witlie; in tlie cell is a white stig-ma 

 encircled witli a l)lack border on to wliieh is joiiied a wedge- 

 shaped white patch extending to the costa. Apex and a 

 large patch rnnning into the wing white. Angle of inner 

 margin white and grey. Fringe white and l)lack. Hindwings 

 deep brown, crossed by a central grey band and three black 

 ones and powdered witli grey. Body deep brown, freckled 

 and variegated Avith white and witli three orange yellow 

 patches on each side. Elxpanse ö inches = 127 millim. 

 Habitat : Hnayabamba, East Fern. 



16. Phlegethontius Manducoides sp. nov. Taf. YI. 

 Fig. 2. Forewings deep black, base. a broad band one third 

 from the l)ase, and a band one fourth from de outer margin 

 pale whitish i)ink. these two transverse pink l)ands are joined 

 near the inner margin by an irregulär broad longitudinal liar 

 of the same coloUr. These pale bands and streaks have 

 several lines of black lunules in their midst and there is also 

 a small pale stigma in the cell. Hindwings white with a 

 very heavy wide brownish ])lack l)order and two transverse 

 blackish bands, the inner one broad, the outer narrow. Head, 

 thorax and abdomen black, variegated with white and with 

 three pale yellow patches on each side of the abdomen. Ex- 

 panse 4 inches == 102 millim. Habitat : (lüquitos, Bolivia. 



