new Neotropical Geometrida?. 243 



linear, dark- margined. Hind wing more thickly sprinkled 

 with reddish scales; cell-mark as in fore wing; a dark 

 purplish mark at base, a median line just beyond cell-mark ; 

 the outer line showing only at costa and in the terminal 

 lunules below middle. Underside yellow flushed with dull 

 red ; the lines slightly marked. 



Huancabamba, N.E. Peru, 5000-G400 feet, January 1906 ; 

 one £ . M. Dognin possesses a precisely similar but smaller 

 example from French Guiana. 



Close to H. divaricata, Warr. Nov. Zool. iv. p. 439 

 {Lipomelia), but at once distinguished by its yellow ground- 

 colour and oblique longitudinal streak. 



Warren's genus Lipomelia was erected for the Indian 

 species subusta, Warr., with simple areole. Whether some 

 slight character will ultimately be found whereby to separate 

 his American " Lipomelia " (with double areole) from 

 Hamalia, Hiibn., I am not at the moment prepared to say. 

 In the present species SO 2 of fore wing arises from the cell, 

 anastomoses at a point with SC 1 and then very lengthily w'ith 

 SC 3 " 4 from shortly before the departure of SC 3 ; SC 2 of hind 

 wing is connate or barely stalked with R 1 . 



Hamalia parallela, sp. n. 



<$ . 21-23 mm.— Face and collar dark brown ; vertex and 

 base of antennal shaft white ; thorax and abdomen pale 

 ochreous. Fore wing pale ochreous tinged with pale sandy 

 brownish ; costal edge purple-brown to middle and brown- 

 speckled above SC ; lines pale brown, indented on submedian 

 fold ; antemedian nearly vertical, slightly outcurved from 

 costa to fold ; median and postmedian parallel to each other 

 throughout, incurved on both folds, the postmedian lunulate- 

 dentate, with the teeth short and pointing basewards ; sub- 

 terminal line pale, wavy, between two interrupted bands of 

 sandy brown ; veins brownish towards termen ; terminal 

 line blackish, interrupted by the pale veins and somewhat 

 swollen between ; fringe ochreous, with a paler line at base ; 

 cell-spot small and dark. Hind wing somewhat paler, less 

 tinged with brownish ; without the inner line ; termen 

 bluntly bent at IV. Underside yellowish ochreous, with the 

 lines showing through ; fore wing with basal third of costa 

 broadly browm. 



Sapucay, Paraguay (W. Foster) ; several $ <$ in Coll. L. 

 B. Prout and Coll. Brit. Mus. 



Much resembles botydata, Walk. List Lep. Ins. xxii. 



