212 NucTUiD.r.. 



45 78. Chamaeclea peruana. 



Chariclea peruana, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 155 (1881); id. 111. Essay p. fiO, 

 pi. 3. f. 27 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 271. 



Head and thorax ochrcous tinged in parfcs with fulvous, the 

 palpi, sides of frons, and basal joint of antennae pinkish ; abdomen 

 fulvous. Fore wing pale purplish pink to the postraedial line with 

 deeper patches at base of costal area, on inner medial area, and before 

 the postmedial line towards costa ; the antemedial line indistinct, 

 strongly angled outwards in cell and submedian fold, then retracted; 

 a slight olive discoidal bar ; tbe postmedial line indistinct, very- 

 oblique from costa to vein 6, then slightly waved and incurved in 

 submedian interspace ; the terminal area ochreous with minutely 



Fig. 77. — Chamaeclea peruana, $ . \. 



waved whitish subterminal line, angled inwards in submedian fold 

 and with olive-yellow suffusion on its inner edge ; a fine terminal 

 line; cilia whitish with a fine line through them. Hind wing 

 whitish, tinged with brown towards termen, the veins brownish. 

 Underside of fore wing whitish suffused with fuscous. 



/lab. U.S.A., Arizona, Prescott, 1 d 1 , 1 ? type. Erp. 26-28 

 millim. 



Genus ECTOLOPHA. 



Type. 



Ectolopha, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. o82 (1902) viridescens. 



Proboscis aborted, rather small ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint 

 reaching about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, 

 the 3rd moderate, porrect ; irons with roughened rounded prominence with 

 slight corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male laminate 

 and minutely serrate ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the pro- 

 and metathorax with spreading crests, the patagia slightly turned up at 

 extremities ; tibia moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at 

 base only. Fore wing broad, the apex rounded, the termen oblique towards 

 tomus where there is a scale-tooth, and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from or from just below upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle of cliscocellulars ; 6, 7 

 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with white patch defined by rufous on middle 



of inner margin, and purplish patches on middle of costa 



and on disk before postmedial line viridescens. 



B. Fore wing without white or purplish patches, a red-brown 



terminal band marginata. 



