collected iu Chili. ol'd 



primaries fuliginous, paler on the median interspaces 

 and at apex, with a series of white- edged black spots in 

 place of the white spots of the typical form ; a more or 

 less defined similar but subconfluent series on the 

 secondaries ; under surface shining whity-brown, irro- 

 rated with blackish, and with the normal black spots. 

 Expanse of wings, 35 mm, 



A female example also occurs a little redder in tint, 

 with the external area almost uniform in colour, and 

 the ocelloid spots almost obsolete. Expanse of wings, 

 33 mm. 



Var. Iwrrens. 



(? , ? . Ash-grey, speckled and striated with black 

 and brown ; the lines whitish, with black-brown inner 

 and paler brown outer margins ; the external area 

 beyond the outer line of primaries more or less suffused 

 with bronze-brown ; the primaries of the male darker 

 and greyer than those of the female ; the white spots 

 mottled with black, less distinct on the secondaries than 

 on the primaries ; fringes, chocolate-brown, tipped with 

 white ; under surface almost as in the typical form. 

 Expanse of wings, 36 mm. 



A male form of this variety occurs in which the brown 

 striation and mottling is so dense that it would be more 

 correct to describe it as brown, striated and mottled with 

 whitish ash-colour. Expanse of wings, 34 mm. 



Whether the following is a distinct species, or only 

 another variety, I shall not attempt to decide : the forms 

 described above may prove to be either species, sports, 

 or polymorphic types ; to save confusion, I have con- 

 sidered it best to give them distinctive names, but at the 

 same time to regard them provisionally as varieties. 



50. Pharmacis raldiviata. 

 ? Scotopteryx-? valdiriata, Felder and Eogenhofer, 

 Reise der Eregatte Novara, Lep. v., pi. cxxvi., 

 fig. 6 (1875). 

 <? . Paler than the female, and with a submargiual 

 series of white-edged black spots on the primaries ; these 

 wings are crossed by two white stripes, as in the female ; * 

 Expanse of wings, 33 mm. 



'■'■'■ The iuuer stripe is drawn in the figure', but the colourist has 

 omitted to put the white on. 



