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1492. Hydrceciodes leucopis, n. sp. (Plate XCII. fig. 1.) 



c? . Head and thorax rufous ; antennte ringed with white towards 

 base ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing 

 brown, the interspaces suffused with fiery red ; an indistinct waved 

 antemedial line ; claviform absent ; orbicular an ill-defiued brown 

 spot with two white points on it ; reniform elliptical, pure white 

 defined by brown and with small brown centre ; postmedial line 

 very indistinct, somewhat dentate, and with some white points on 

 the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some ochreous points beyond it on costa ; traces of a pale 

 waved subtcrminal line ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing ochreous suffused with brown ; the underside paler, the costal 

 area thickly irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Peru, Huancabamba, 1 S type. Exp. 30 millim. 



1493. Hydrceciodes leucogramma, n. sp. (Plate LXXXY. fig. 7.) 



2 , Head and thorax purplish pink tinged with brown ; pectus 

 and legs grey-brown ; abdomen greyish fuscous, the extremity 

 tinged with pink, the dorsal crest tipped with white. Pore wing 

 purplish pink ; the veins black-brown ; the area beyond the cell 

 suffused with black-brown ; the submedian interspace and base of 

 inner margin j'ellow thickly irrorated with fiery red ; an indistinct 

 oblique waved antemedial line angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular 

 and reniform yellow thickly irrorated with fiery red, the former 

 round, the latter with punctiform white line on its lower and outer 

 sides and point at its upper inner angle; medial line represented 

 by a striga from costa and an oblique waved Hue from beyond 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line strongly den- 

 tate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 subterminal line white, obsolescent towards costa, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and slightly incurved below vein 3. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown ; the underside rather paler, with slight discoidal point and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 $ type. Organ Mts., Tijuca {S. B. 

 Wagner), 2 2 ', Paeaguat, Meva Germania. Ex^. 30 miUim. 



Genus TIRACOLA. ^v 



Type. 



Tiracola, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 351 plagiaia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint thickly scaled, the 

 3rd short, oblique ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna of niaie 

 ciliated ; head and thorax ciotlied with hair and a few scales, tlie prothorax 

 with triangular ridge-like crest, the metathorax with spreading crest ; abdomen 

 rather dorsally flattened, with rough hair at base and dorsal crests on basal 

 segments. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced, the termen obliquely 

 curved and the cilia creniilate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with the cell short; vein 2 from near angle; 3, 4 stalked ; 

 5 obsolescent from middle of diseocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly 

 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the oell near base only. 



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