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some new Hesperiidie from Central and South America. 385 



which name, however, falls to P. qidsjnca, Plotz * as shown 

 by reference to his MS. drawing, pi. 1361. We possess 

 specimens from Rio Colorado, Peru, 2,500 ft., obtained 

 by Watkins and from Charaplaya, Bolivia, 1,350 m., 

 obtained by P. O. Simon. 



F. luguhris is a much blacker insect. 



Pyrrhopyge maravilha, Foetterle, Revista de Museu 

 Paulista, p. 637, pi. xviii, f. 1 (nee xvi, f. 3), 1902, is 

 another species belonging to this genus and is aUied to 

 the beautiful P. cavi2)osa, Plotz [Stett. Ent. Zeit. xlvii, 

 p. 90 (1886)], figured in his MS. drawings, pi. 1360, from 

 Minas Geraes, from which it principally differs by possess- 

 ing red shoulders and by the absence oif the bright yellow 

 costal streak on the fore-wing below. 



Pyrrhopygopsis igniculus, sp. nov. 



(J . Closely allied to P. orasns, Druce, from which it differs in the 

 almost complete absence of the conspicuous white basal area on the 

 hind-wing below— it is reduced to a small spot above the costal 

 nervure and some white scaling below the wall of the cell. 



Expanse 2| inch. 



Rah. Pozuzo, Peru, 5,000-6,000 ft. (Native collectors). 

 La Merced, Peru, 2,500 ft., v, vi, 1903 {Watkins and 

 To7nlinson). 



Described from two specimens. 



Pyrrlwpygo-psis caminus, sp. nov. 



^. Allied to P. orasus, Druce, but paler, and the white of the 

 cilia on the hind-wing extending well into the margin of the wing 

 on the upper-side. On the under-side the costal margin is white 

 from the base to beyond the middle of the c(41. The head, palpi 

 and anal segment and tuft are red as in P. orasus and there is an 

 additional red tuft on the abdomen at the base of the fore-wing and 

 the fore coxae are conspicuously red in place of the black of orasus. 

 Expanse 2yV inch. 



Rab. San Martin, Llanos of Rio Meta, Colombia 

 (G. D. Child). 



The red tuft on the abdomen at the base of the fore- 



* Hesperia quispica, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xlvii, p. 90 (1886), 

 MS. drawings, pi. 1361. 



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