'2\-J XUCTPIU.E. 



457^. Chamaeclea peruana. 



Cfuiric/ea pf maun. Grote, Papilio, i. p. \'>b (1H81); id. 111. Essay p. (50, 

 pi. y. f, 27 ; tJiiiitL, Cat. 'Sod. K. Am. p. L'71. 



Head and thorax ochreous tintjed in parts with fulvous, the 

 palpi, sides of froiis, and hasal joint of aiitciime ]iiiikish ; abdonion 

 fulvous. Fore wing pale puridish pink to the postniedial line with 

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

 the postmedial line towards costa ; the antemedial line indistinct, 

 stroiifrly an<i;led outwards in cell and submcdiau fold, then retracted; 

 a slight olive discoidal bar; the postmedial line indistinct, very 

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

 submedian interspace ; the terminal area ochreous witli minutely 



Fig. 77. — Chamaeclea peruana, c?. }. 



waved whitish subtermiual line, angled inwards in submedian fold 

 and with olive-yellow sutt'usion on its inner edge ; a fine terminal 

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

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

 Underside of fore wing whitish suffused with fuscous. 



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Genus ECTOLOPHA. 



Type. 



Ectolopha, Ilmpsn. Ama. S. Afr. ]Mu». ii. p. o82 (1902) viride^cens. 



Proboscis aborted, ratbcr small ; palpi obliquely U])tnnied, the 2nd joint 

 reaching about to middle of frous and moderately fringed with Lair in iront, 

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

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

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

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

 extremities; tibiie moderately fringed with hair: abdomen with dorsal crest at 

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

 toruus where there is a scale-tooth, and sliglitly crenulate ; veins oand b from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from or frou) 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 diseoeellulars ; 6, 7 

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



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



of inner nuirgin, and purplish patches on middle of cos-ta 



and on disk before postmedial line viridescetis, 



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



lermiual baud maryinuia. 



