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cxtrenutv voIIoav, the ventral surface yellow with suhlateral and 

 ventral series of blackish spots. Fore wing sulphur-yellow irrorated 

 Avith large black-brown scales especially in and below end of cell ; a 

 small black spot at base of costa and subbasal spots on costa and 

 below the cell ; antemedial line double, black, waved, indistinct and 

 interrupted except at costa and inner margin ; orbicular a small 

 black annulus ; reniform a narrow yellow lunule obscurely defined 

 b}' black ; an indistinct oblique waved line from lower angle of cell 

 to inner margin ; the terminal half of costa with alternating black 

 and whitish spots ; postmedial line very indistinct, double, oblique, 



Lichnoptcra gido, d. 



waved ; subterminal line defined on inner side by obscure dentate 

 blackish marks ; a dentate dark shade before termen ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules defined by yellow; cilia chequered 

 black and yellow. Hind wing semihyaline whitish tinged with 

 bi-own, the inner area clothed with brown hair, the apical area and 

 terminal area except towards tornus paler ; a faint brown subter- 

 minal line ending in a darker bar at tornus ; cilia chequered black 

 and white ; the underside with diffused brown medial shade. 



$ . Abdomen yellow u-rorated with black ; fore wing with rather 

 less dark irroration, the subterminal line not defined on inner side 

 by blaekisli marks ; hind wing uniform pale yellow, the cilia 

 chequered black and white at tips. 



Hab. Mkxtco, Jalapa, Coll. Rothschild; Costa Rica, Juan 

 Yinas, Sitio (Schaus) ; VCulo-MIUA {Kalhrci/rr), 1 d, 1 2, 

 Bogota ; Venezuela, Merida, Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 6 oO, 

 $ 70 millim. 



*82in. LicViiioptera primiilina. (Plate CCXXXV. fig. IS.) 

 Lichnoptcra jyrhnulina, Dogn. Hut. Kouv. Am. Siul, vi. p. 15 (1912). 



$ . Head, thoi-ax, and abdomen pale sulphur-yellow irrorated 

 with dark In-own ; pal])i blackish at sides and ti])s ; frons with 

 l)lackish bar above. Fore wing ])ale sulphur-yellow thickly irrorated 

 with large black-brown scales in the interspaces; a slight yellow 

 antemedial line from submedian fold to inner margin, angled 

 inwards at vein I; a small blackish spot in end of cell; a slight 



