30 Mr. L. B. Prout on new 



type in coll. Joicey. Rio Pacaya, Pern, July 1913, 1 S in 

 coll. Brit. Mus. (presented by J. J. Joicey). Urucjaca, Rio 

 Jurua, Amazons, November 9th, 1874, 1 $ in coll. Brit. Mus. 

 (Bud. 1. c). Fonte Boa, Upper Amazon, July 1906 and 

 July 1907 (Klages), in coll. Tring Mus. 



17. Ptychopoda deliloides, sp. n. 



£ . — 18 mm. 



Face and upperside of palpus black. Vertex and base of 

 antenna white; ciliation rather short. Occiput walnut- 

 brown. Thorax above reddish, anteriorly mixed with black, 

 posteriorly with white; abdomen above reddish, somewhat 

 mixed with white, especially towards anal end. Hind tibia 

 rather large, thick and tufted, tarsus strongly abbreviated. 



Pore wing with areole moderate ' or rather long, rather 

 narrow, all the subcostals stalked from its apex ; mostly 

 walnut-brown, with fine white irroration ; base of costa 

 blackish, the white scaling strong in the rest of the proximal 

 area, developing" into an ill-defined white line at the edge of 

 the median area, which runs very obliquely outwards from 

 costa, is acutely angulated subcostally, and then very oblique 

 inwards to hind margin; median area very broad, costally 

 mixed with white, its edges slightly darkened; an indistinct 

 dark cell-mark and traces of a dark median line near to and 

 parallel with the antemedian, but not angulated subcostally, 

 touching the cell-mark ; a very irregular white line distally 

 to the median area, angulated at R 1 , slightly sinuate inwards 

 between R 1 and R 3 , very near the termen between R 3 and M 2 , 

 rather deeply sinuate inwards between M 2 and SM 2 , again 

 angulated on SM 2 ; a white subapical and slighter central 

 suffusion distally ; a white line close to termen, slightly 

 receding therefrom at costa; a dark terminal line; fringe 

 whitish brown or almost white, with darker and redder spots 

 opposite the veins. 



Hind wing with SC a and R 1 quite shortly stalked ; red 

 nearly to base; two white distal lines corresponding to those 

 of fore wing ; terminal line and fringe as on fore wing. 



Fore wing beneath almost entirely suffused with vinaceous, 

 hind wing partly rosy but generally more mixed with white, 

 especially posteriorly and towards distal margin, where a 

 rosy line remains observable between the two white lines of 

 the upperside. 



Pozuzo, E. Peru (/. Egg). Type in coll. Joicey, others in 

 coll. Tring Mus. Also occurs in Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, 

 French Guiana, and Amazons. 



