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of slender >-shaped black markings" terminating near 

 external angle in a ^-shaped spot filled in with blackish ; 

 an interrupted cruciform brownish costal patch beyond 

 this series of markings ; the whole surface of the wings 

 between the other markings crossed by indistinct lunu- 

 late white-edged grey lines ; a black lunulated marginal 

 line ; fringe whitish, traversed by two grey lines, the 

 inner one dark ; secondaries pale sericeous-grey, with a 

 dark marginal line ; thorax whitish ; antennae and abdo- 

 men reddish brown ; primaries below with the costal 

 half washed with laky brown ; a darker lake-brown 

 costal spot beyond the middle, bounded on each side by 

 cream-colour ; this spot, in certain lights, is seen to be 

 the commencement of an arched greyish band, bounded 

 externally by a band rather paler than the ground colour ; 

 internal half of wing greyish white ; fringe nearly as 

 above ; secondaries sordid-white, slightly tinted with 

 reddish towards outer margin ; pectus white-; legs lake- 

 brown above, the tarsi banded with whitish ; venter 

 whitish. Expanse of wings, 26 mm. 



" Las Zorras."— r. E. 



A pretty little species, with nearly the pattern of 0. 

 dilittata. 



80. Oporabia hastigera, n. s. 



Primaries above pale brownish grey, crossed from the 

 base to beyond the middle by irregular angulated blackish 

 lines spotted with black on the veins, the fourth and fifth 

 and the two last,, which are in pairs, represent the limits 

 of the central belt, are spotted with cupreous in the male 

 and blood-red in the female, within the cell and between 

 the radial veins ; disc crossed by two series of hastate 

 black spots, indistinctly united by lunulated grey, lines, 

 which are also reddish upon the radial' interspaces ; a 

 marginal series of black dots ; fringe white, spotted with 

 dark grey; secondaries white, with cream-coloured fringe; 

 thorax brown, black-speckled ; abdomen sericeous whity 

 brown ; primaries below pale grey ; apex and costal 

 margin brownish ; secondaries white ; body below whitish ; 

 legs blackish, barred with white above, white below. 

 Expanse of wings, 29 — 30 mm. 



"Las Zorras, in January." — T. E. 



