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with the erect hairs of upperside strongly developed, third 

 joint nearly as long as second. Vertex and antennal shaft 

 pale, with only very minute and very sparse pink irroration. 

 Thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings ; tegula with 

 a geranium-pink transverse bar near extremity ; abdomen 

 with pink dorsal dots on first two or three segments; hind 

 tibia with the single proximal spur well developed. 



Fore wing moderately elongate, termen almost smooth ; 

 cream-buff with fine pink irroration ; a minute pink 

 whitish-pupilled annulus on DC ; antemedian pink dots 

 placed as in fastidiosa, Dogn. (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xliv. 

 p. 441), but on an average more elongate, especially that on 

 the cell-fold ; a faint zigzag grey median shade placed 

 nearly as in fastidiosa or still more oblique posteriorly ; 

 postmedian pink dots nearly parallel with median shade, 

 connected by faint traces of a fine line ; submarginal pale 

 line very feebly indicated by faint shades proximally and 

 distally ; terminal dots small, but sharp. 



Hind wing with termen subcrenulate, with an appreciably 

 stronger tooth at R 3 ; M 1 widely separate from R 3 ; markings 

 corresponding to those of fore wing. Underside less 

 irrorated ; markings nearly as in fastidiosa, median shade 

 of fore wing rather broad, proximal subterminal shade of 

 fore wing and median shade of hind wing rather well 

 developed. 



Sierra del Libane, Colombia, 6000 ft. (H. H. Smith), 



May be placed next to punctulosa, Warr. (Nov. Zool. 

 xi. p. 31). 



Subfamily Geometrin^. 

 5. Mimaletis paucialbata, sp. n. 



<$ .—40-43 mm. 



Head and body with the colouring of the rest of the group 

 (postica, Walk., &c), the three areas of the face (black 

 down the centre, white down the sides) sharply defined, the 

 white dorsal markings of abdomen not very broad. 



Fore wing narrower than in the allies ; the orange ground- 

 colour less reddish ; costal edge very narrowly black to 

 base ; a very small black basal mark, throwing out a slight 

 prong along M ; black apical border broad anteriorly, its 

 margin commencing at middle of costa and running fairly 

 straight to hind margin close to tornus, slightly crenulate ; 



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