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beyond it ; a sinuous brown medial line and two lines beyond the 

 cell oblique towards costa, then inwardly oblique and waved; traces 

 of an annulus below end of cell, excised at middle and with four 

 black jjoints on its edges ; postmedial line red-brown, bent out- 

 wards below costa, very slightly angled inwards at vein 7, then 

 oblique and defined on inner side by black points on the veins and 

 with a narrow grey band on its outer side defined by a nan'ow 

 black band arising from costa towards apex, with slightly dentate 

 outer edge and the subterminal series of black points on the veins 

 just beyond it ; the tennen suffused with red-brown except at apex 

 with slightly waved inner edge ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing dull reddish brown, the terminal area paler, except 

 towards apex ; a slightly waved pale line from vein 4 to tomus 

 defined on inner side by black points and a blackish line towards 

 tornus, a blackish band beyond it followed by subterminal black 

 points on the veins ; cilia mfous ; the underside uniform glossy 

 grey-brown. 



$ . Fore wing with the dark band beyond the antemedial line 

 obsolescent, no dark patch beyond the reniform and the blackish 

 band before the subterminal points slight ; underside of hind wing 

 greyish suffused and in'orated with red-brown, traces of a discoidal 

 point and curved postmedial line, a dark subterminal shade. 



Ab. 1. paUidior. Much greyer brown. 



Ab. 2. alviiia. Fore wing purplish red-brow^n, the costal area 

 between the postmedial and subterminal lines rufous, the reniform 

 pale grey with faint dark striga in centre, the terminal area of both 

 wings pale grey. 



Hah. Mexico, Tabasco, Teapa {H. H. Smith), 1 cJ , 1 $ ; 

 Guatemala, Cerro Zunil {Cliampioii), 1 c? , 1 ?, Pantaleon 

 {Champion), Id, Vera Paz, Cubilguitz {Champion^, 1 $; Costa 

 EiCA, Sta. Clara Valley (Zurcher), 1 6 ; Panama, Chiriqui {Rihhe, 

 Champioti), 1 c? , 1 $, Godman-Salvin Coll., La Chorrera {Dolhy- 

 Tyler), 1 2 ; Jamaica, 1 <S ; Cuba, Bai-acoa {Schaus), 1 S , San- 

 tiago {Schaus), 1 5; Haiti {Ticeedie), 1 <S type variolosa; 

 Teixidad, Cuparo {Kaye), 1 S ; Colombia, Minca {H. H. 

 Smith), 1 c7, Bogota (Stevens), 1 d ; Br. Guiaxa, Demerara 

 {Sod tray), 1$; Brazil, Amazons, Para {Goeldi), Id', Thereso- 

 polis {Michaelis), 1 6 , Espiritu Santo, 1 J • Exp. 50-62 millim. 



7914. Celiptera cometephora, n. sp. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 2.) 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous brown ; tegulae 

 with slight brown line near tips ; patagia with oblique whitish line 

 near base and dark line near tips. Fore wing pale ochreous brown 

 with slight dark irroration ; an indistinct pale subbasal line 

 faintly defined by brown from cosfci to subincdian fold ; a rather 

 triangular black spot defined by wdiitish and with its apex produced 

 and cm-ved outwards above inner margin before the antemedial 

 line, which is very indistinct, pale, oblique, sinuous, with traces of 

 a sinuous dark line beyond it. the produced part of the spot 



