522 Mr. L. B. Prout on 



palpus more ochreous brown internally, externally blackish. 

 Fore wing coffee-brown dusted with blackish ; lines greenish 

 grey, white at costa ; antemedian oblique outwards from 

 costa, shortly angled in cell, excurved between M and SM 8 

 and between SM 2 and inner margin, dentate inwards on 

 veins; postmedian slightly oblique outwards to SC 4 , nearly 

 vertical to R 3 , oblique inwards to M 2 , then again nearly 

 vertical — slightly outbent near inner margin ; above R 3 

 marked by white dots on veins ; subterminal line lunulate- 

 dentate, whitish, very indistinct, except from costa to R 1 , 

 where it is followed by a grey -white apical patch ; marginal 

 dots between the veins greenish grey with black scales round 

 them ; cell- mark oval, black-edged, with centre of slightly 

 raised greenish-grey scales ; in anterior part of wing a dark 

 curved median shade midway between cell-spot and post- 

 median ; fringe brown. Hind wing paler brown along inner 

 and distal margins, costal half dull whitish ; a large round 

 black cell-spot, followed by a sinuous greenish-grey post- 

 median line from R 3 , curved and ending in a black, white- 

 edged spot on inner margin near tornus ; marginal dots as 

 in fore wing ; fringe brown. Underside of fore wing 

 shining whitish in inner-marginal half, brown thickly black- 

 dotted in costal ; cell-mark nearly as above ; edge of post- 

 median line on costa and apical patch whitish ; underside 

 of hind wing whitish, thickly black-speckled, tinged with 

 brown in costal half ; a large round black cell-spot and 

 black dotted postmedian line, the latter blotched with black 

 towards inner margin. 



Tome, Colombia, July 1907 ; one c? • 



Meticulodes ambusta, sp. n. 



<J . 49 mm. — Face, palpus, and antenna ferruginous 

 brown ; thorax and basal segments of abdomen blackish, 

 dotted with black scales ; abdomen grey-brown, brighter 

 beneath. Fore wing with basal area ferruginous red-brown 

 coarsely speckled with black, vein M and part of cell above 

 it yellow, the other veins also more or less yellow ; median 

 area blurred purplish brown without the speckling ; terminal 

 area above M 1 dark iron-grey, below it brownish ferruginous ; 

 antemedian line black and thick, very oblique from costa, 

 bluntly rounded above M, and oblique inwards to one-third 

 of inner margin, interrupted below SC, followed in cell by a 

 dull ferruginous patch, bounded by a dull blackish smear on 

 DC ; the costal part of median area and the space immediately 

 following antemedian line suffused with deeper purple ; 

 postmedian black and fine, somewhat thicker from M 1 to 



