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cell ))('fore aiKl bi'tvroon them ; postmerlial line inrlistinct, minutely 

 waved, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oliliciue, a series of 

 black points beyond it on the veins and some pale points on costa; 

 subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by blackish 

 suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; cilia dark brown 

 with pale lines at base and near tips. Hind wing dark brown, 

 rather paler at base ; cilia yellowish white with a brown line near 

 base, brown at apex ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, 

 the costal half suffused wil.li rufous, a blackish discoidal point, 

 postmedial series on the veins, and terminal series from apex to 

 vein 2. 



Ilab. S.E. Peru, Oconeque (Ocl-enden), type t ? in Coll. Druce, 

 Huaurabamba {BoeWjer). Exp. 40 millim. 



4427. Macapta albivitta, n. sp. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 27.) 



Head and thorax pale brown mixed with whitish and slightly 

 irrorated w ith black ; palpi with small black spots at extremities 

 of 2nd and iird joints ; Irons with lateral black bars ; abdomen grey 

 dorsally tinged with fuscous, ventrally irrorated with black, the 

 basal crest tipped with black, small subdorsal and snblateral black 

 spots on terminal segments. Fore wing pale red-brown slightly 

 irrorated with fuscous, the costal edge white ; obliquely placed 

 subbasal black points below costa and cell and above vein 1 ; a 

 small antemedial black spot in submcdian fold ; orbicular a small 

 black spot ; reniform a small very ill-defined yellow and fiery-red 

 lunule with more or less distinct white streak below it extending 

 to postmedial line, which is represented by a series of black points 

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

 oblique and incurved at submedian fold, some slight black points 

 beyond it on costa; an oblique subterminal series of black points ; 

 the terminal area suffused with fuscous below apex ; a terminal 

 series of black points defined by slii;ht pale lunules ; cilia with a 

 series of black points at tips. Hind wing white suffused with 

 brow;i exce])t at base ; cilia white with a slight diffused brown line 

 through them ; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated 

 ■with brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with black patch beyond the reniform. 



Hah Jamaica, Castleton (Ke(i/e), 3 c7 , 1 $ type, Cinchona (Kcnje), 

 2 $ , Xewcastle, 1 § . Exp. 22- 2G millim. 



4128. Macapta dileiica, n. sp. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 28.) 



$ . Head and thorax yellow mixed with some fiery red ; abdomen 

 ochreous white. Fore wing yellow irrorated with brown and some 

 black scales, the costal edge white, the costal area beyond the cell 

 and inner margin irrorated with iiery red ; subbasal line absent ; 

 antemedial line represented by a few black scales, oblique from 

 costa to submcdian fold, then inwardly oblicjue ; claviform absent ; 

 orbicular and reniform represented by yellow patches irrorated with 

 red, the latter with white streak below it from lower angle of cell 



