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white tinged with brown especially on the veins and terminal area, 

 a brown discoidal spot ; cilia yellowish white with diffused brown 

 line at middle ; the underside yellowish white irrorated with 

 brown, a black discoidal spot, faint curved postmedial line with 

 minute black streaks on the veins, and terminal series of lunules. 



Hah. JS.E. Peru, Oroya (Ockenden), 1 J , 1 $ type, Carabaya, 

 St. Domingo. Exp. 'M millim. 



Genus CENTRARTHRA., nov. 



Type, C. furcivitta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about, to middle of Irons and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd rather 

 long, porrect ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round; antenme of female ciliated ; 

 thorax roughly clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax 

 with slight spreading crests ; fore tibia with curved claw at extremity ou inner 

 side, the mid and hind tibite moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termeu evenly curved and 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 ti, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



3896. Centrarthra furcivitta. n. sp. 



2 . Head and thorax ochreous mixed with red-brown and some 

 fuscous; abdomen ochreous tinged with red-brown. Fore wing 

 ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated with dark brown and 

 black ; a black streak on basal half of median nervure obscurely 

 forking in base of submedian fold; a faint black streak on ex- 

 tremity of median nervure ; subbasal and antemedial lines repre- 

 sented by a few black scales below costa ; claviform and orbicular 



Centrarthra furcivitta, 2 . 



absent ; reniform represented by a very slight pale lunule obscurely 

 defined by black scales ; postmedial lino obsolete towards costa, 

 very indistinct, minutely dentate and oblique from vein 6 to inner 

 margin ; faint traces of a dark subterminal line excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous whitish 

 suffused and irrorated with brown, especially on terminal area ; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with brown ; a dark discoidal 

 lunule and traces of a diffused postmedial line. 



Hah. Cape Colony/, Deelfontein {Sloggett), 1 2 type. Kvj). o'J 

 .millim. 



