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to R 3 and from tornus to above M 2 , besides slighter angled 

 projection between M 1 and M 2 and a still slighter between 

 R 3 and M 1 . Hind wing with purple-red markings as follow : 

 an elongate discal spot; a narrow inner-marginal streak, 

 which usually throws out some projections to submedian 

 fold ; and a border extended into blotches at apex and tornus. 

 Terminal markings of both wings narrowly dark-edged 

 proximally, and separated from the green ground-colour by 

 a yellow line. Fringes paler purplish, darker marked at the 

 vein-ends. Underside paler, whitish lines obsolete, discal 

 spot of fore wing not filled in with purple-reddish, that of 

 hind wing obsolete; otherwise marked as above. 



Tome, Colombia, August 1907, type and three other £ <$ ; 

 El Congo, Colombia, July 1907, two g £ ; San Antonio, 

 W. Colombia, 5800 feet, December 1907 {M. G. Palmer). 

 Variation extremely slight. May well be a local race of 

 R. dependens, Warr. Nov. Zool. xi. p. 25, differing in the 

 large marginal blotches ; dependens has no blotch at the 

 radials. From gerularia, Hiibn. ( = ocellata Stoll, nee Linn.), 

 and the species which I identify as decorata, Warr. Nov. 

 Zool. viii. p. 419*, tumefacta differs in the possession of the 

 broad purple-red costal streak. 



Racheospila psittacina, sp. n. 



<J . 34 mm. — Face red - brown, narrowly green above ; 

 vertex white; occiput apple-green ; palpus varied above (red- 

 brown, dark grey, and white), first joint below white, second 

 blackish grey. Antenna ochreous, basal one-third of shaft 

 white above. Thorax apple green above, white beneath ; 

 abdomen dorsally red-brown, with two snow-white spots, the 

 posterior the larger and more triangular. Wings with 

 termen scarcely sinuate. Fore wing apple-green, with costa 

 narrowly yellowish white; markings purple-brown, consisting 

 of a rather large rounded discal spot (slightly paler in centre), 

 two roundish marginal blotches formed as in R. lafayaria, 

 Dogn. Le Nat. 1892, p. 206,and a terminal line between them, 

 thickening slightly towards each blotch ; the blotches narrowly 

 margined with yellow proximally; fringe purple -brown. 

 Hind wing similar, but with discal spot quite small, costa not 

 white, inner margin very narrowly red-brown. Under 

 surface similar, rather paler, the yellow more diffuse ; costa 

 of fore wing more yellow, inner margin of hind wing not recl- 



* The type is in bad condition. 



