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veutro-distal mai-njin is turned iiiwanl, dontate, and dorsally produced into a louK 

 sharp tooth; the tliin dorsal edj^e is irre(,nihirly toothed (PL XXXVI. f. 11). 

 Fenis-shcath with a small subapieal tooth (I'l. XXIX. f. 48). 



Cjjpi'rside of body and forewing bistre colour, mottled with grey and tawny 

 olive ; head with a creamy white streak above eye, continued to pronotum ; meso- 

 thoracic tegnla witii a thin whitish lateral border, along which runs an indistinct 

 lilackish brown line ; abdomen rather ]iiiler, with mesial tnfts of subcrect scales : 

 a series of white apical dots at each side as in brontes, rustica, and some others, 



segments 1 to 3 with a yellow lateral patch bordered with black. b'orewing : 



outer margin sinuate at M^, the undnlate and zigzag lines well marked, disoal and 

 postdiscal ones curved as in naxtii, interspace SC^ — SC" of second and third disc.al 

 line white, the other anterior inters])aces between these two lines, as well as at the 

 distal side of the third one, more or less greyish white, interspaces between first 

 and second discal lines, which are heavy, not sericeous black as in lucetius, but 

 scarcely darker than the rest of the disc; postdiscal line heavy, developed to a 

 patch upon R^ and behind M-, followed by a large, ill-defined, creamy white patch 

 at R- ; the creamy white submarginal zigzag line heavy, but broken between the 

 veins ; creamy white fringe-spots large ; stigma nearly white, round ; oblique 



apical line heavy, bordered with creamy white in front. Hindwing blackish brown, 



tiie jiale bauds very obscure, being clearly marked only in abdominal fold ; fringe 

 s]]otted with creamy white. 



Lnderride: First and base of second segment of palpus creamy white ; breast 

 and femora nearly white, tibiae and tarsi brown ringed with white, abdomen more 



dirty white, with the usual In-own mesial sjmts. Wings bistre colour, more mummy 



brown distally, hindwing greyish white in proximal half of abdominal fold ; throe 

 darker discal bands, which are very faint on forewing, better marked on hindwing, 

 where they remain parallel down to SM''. 



?. Unknown. 



Length of forewing : S , 55 — Go mm. 



Larva and chrysalis unknown. We expect the larva to differ from the ordinary 

 oblic|uely striped type, judging from the larva of albiplaffa. 



Hah. Colombia. 



In Tring Museum 4c?<? from: R. Dagua (\V. Rosenberg) {t'ljn'); Juntas, 

 <'auca (M. de Mathan), end of 1897 to Jan. 1898. 



The specimens from the Canca valley we received from Mons. (111. (Jberthiir, 

 who has a fine series of this insect, all males. 



5'i. Protoparce leucq^gila sp. nov. (PI. LXV. f. 3. 6). 



6. Allied to daliat, in colour intermediate between it and rii-itirn, wings 

 narrower. First segment of foretarsus shorter than the tibia, witli three very long 

 external spines. Antenna slender, shorter than in (kilina and thinner, scaling 

 white at base. Frons with white transverse band connecting the bases of the 

 uiitenna as in ruHlica ; sides of frons and anterior edge with cinnamon scales. 

 White lateral stripe of mesonotum continued over jjronotum ; collar besides with 

 three bnflish white 8j)ot8. Abdomen above nearly as in rustica, three yellow side- 

 patches, two widely sejjaratcd rows of white dots, a mesial row of rather indistinct 

 black dots, posterior tergites more extended chalky white than in rudica and dolica. 

 UnderBJde of body chalhy white ; first segment of palpns (<'xcept a stripe along 



