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All of the specimens are from high altitudes. Mt. Tolima (3846 
m), P&ramo de Puracé (83570 m) and Volcan Galeras (2900 m). The 
differences in altitude are not great but may well account for the varia- 
tion that exists. All of the specimens are indistinguishable on genitalia. 
Type: British Museum (Natural History). 
Type-locality: Colombia, Mt. Tolima. 
Distribution: Colombia: 271, Mt. Tolima; 2076’, Cauca, Péramo 
de Puracé, Lake San Rafael, 3570 m, 27.1.1959, J. F. G. Clarke; ¢@ 
Narifio, Volcan Galeras, 2900 m, 13.1.1959, J. F. G. Clarke. 
Phalonia tornosema, new species 
Ficure 6; PLATE 2 (ria. 7) 
Alar expanse 12-13 mm. 
Labial palpus white; basal half of second segment fuscous on outer 
side; third segment with a few scattered fuscous scales. Antenna 
fuscous; scape white except fuscous apex. Head white with grayish 
scales laterally. Thorax gray, mixed with russet and fuscous; anterior 
margin narrowly white; posterior tuft ochraceous orange. Forewing 
ground color pale gray; on each side of fold a series of four (total 8) 
round spots of mixed russet and leaden gray scales; on tornus a 
conspicuous ochraceous-orange spot; basal patch indistinct, indi- 
cated mostly by ochraceous-tawny scales; inner angle fuscous; from 
middle of costa an ill-defined, brown, transverse fascia with a small 
fuscous spot on each edge in cell; beyond this fascia a costal whitish 
area followed by short, transverse whitish and russet fasciae; under- 
side grayish fuscous except from fold to dorsal edge; cilia light tawny 
mixed with gray, lighter around tornal area. Hindwing grayish 
fuscous; cilia light grayish with darker sub-basal band. Foreleg 
sordid white strongly infuscated on outer side; tarsus banded with 
fuscous; midleg similar to foreleg; hindleg ocherous white; tibial 
spurs and tarsus minutely spotted with fuscous. Abdomen grayish 
fuscous dorsally; ocherous white ventrally, irrorate and suffused 
with fuscous. 
Female genitalia slide JFGC nos. 11223, 11630. Ostium transverse, 
narrow. Antrum sclerotized in a narrow band. Inception of ductus 
seminalis from anterior end of bursa copulatrix; accessory bursa 
from near inception of ductus seminalis. Ductus bursae very short, 
about one-third the length of bursa copulatrix. Bursa copulatrix 
membranous. Signum absent. Lamella antevaginalis and lamella 
postvaginalis very lightly sclerotized. 
Holotype: U.S. National Museum No. 69740. 
Type-locality: Guatemala, Volean Santa Maria. 
Distribution: Guatemala. 
Described from the female holotype and seven 99 paratypes all 
