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28. Taseopteryx sericea, n. s. (PI. XI., fig. 3). 



Primaries above whity-brown, clouded with bronzy 

 olivaceous ; with the central area occupied by a broad 

 oblique irregularly trigonate patch, bounded above by the 

 costal border, and on the other sides by a black-edged 

 white stripe ; this patch is greyish white towards the 

 costa, where the veins are blackish, the remainder being 

 dark olivaceous varied with flesh-colour, and enclosing a 

 cream-coloured crescent with blackish inner edge at the 

 end of the cell and a large curved blackish-edged creamy 

 spot within its posterior angle ; two confluent black 

 spots at the base ; submedian vein ash-grey ; an abbre- 

 viated oblique white stripe from apex to about the centre 

 of the disc, where it fades into the ground colour, and 

 followed by a longer and broader dark bronzy olivaceous 

 stripe or band spotted with black dashes, from which 

 longitudinal pure white stripes run to the extremity of 

 the fringe ; secondaries greyish, sericeous, with faint 

 golden reflections ; external border broadly darker, with 

 a black marginal line interrupted at the extremities of 

 the veins ; a dusky disco-cellular lunule ; fringe white, 

 traversed by a grey stripe and tipped with grey ; body 

 pale greyish or whity-brown ; primaries below dark 

 smoky grey, the fringe spotted with snow-white ; costa 

 sprinkled with white scales ; secondaries silvery white, 

 irrorated with grey, especially on the costa ; a black 

 disco-cellular spot and marginal line ; a slender undu- 

 lated grey discal line ; body below pale shining brown. 

 Expanse of wings, 27 — 29 mm. 



"Las Zorras, in November." — T. E. 



TORTKICID.E. 

 Teeas, Trcitschke. 



29. Teras blancharclii, n. s. (PL XI., fig. 6). 



Somewhat the aspect of T. proteana, but darker ; pri- 

 maries pale coffee-brown, sericeous ; a broad grey patch 

 commencing in the centre of the costa, running obliquely 

 backwards, and tapering to a mere line at basal fourth 

 of dorsal margin, mottled with blackish, and crossed by 

 a slightly curved blackish band, which runs obliquely 

 outwards from the costal margin to its outer edge, 

 bounded also iust below the middle of its outer edge by 



