new Neotropical Geometridic. •*.'>! 



to R-* and from tonuis to above M'-, besides sli^jbter anj^led 

 projecticjii between M ' and M- and a still slij^hter between 

 K^ and M'. Hind winj; with |)ni[)le-red niarkinj^s as follow: 

 an elongate diseal spot; a narrow inner-marginal streak, 

 ■whicli usnally throws out some projeetions to sulimedian 

 fold ; and a bord(>r extended into blotehcs at apex and tornns. 

 Terminal markings of both wings narrowly dark-edged 

 proximally, and separated from the green gronnd-eolonr by 

 a yellow line. Fringes paler [)ur|)lish, darker marked at tlie 

 vein-ends. Ihidersidc paler, whitish lines obsolete, diseal 

 spot of fore wing not filled in with pur|)le-reddish, that of 

 hind wing obsolete; otlicrwise marked as a))()ve. 



Tome, Colombia, Angnst 1907, type and three other ^ i ', 

 El Congo, Colombia, July 1907, two (^ J; San Antonio, 

 W. Colombia, 5S00 fcet.'Deeember 1907 {M. G. I'almer). 

 Variation extremely slight. ^lay well be a loeal race of 

 R. dependens, "Warr. Nov. Zool. xi. p. 25, differing in the 

 large marginal blotches ; dependens has no bloteh at the 

 radials. From f/erularia, lliibn. ( = ocellata Stoll, nee Linn.), 

 and the species wliich I identify as decoruta, Warr. Nov. 

 Zool. viii. p. W9*, tunu facta differs in the possession of the 

 broad purple-red costal streak. 



Racheospila psittacina, sp. n. 



cJ . 34 mm. — Face red -brown, narrowly green above; 

 vertex white ; occiput apple-green ; pal{)us varied above (red- 

 brown, dark grey, and white), first joint below white, second 

 blackish grey. Antenna ochreous, basal one-third of shaft 

 white above. Tborax apple green above, white beneath ; 

 abdomen dorsally red-brown, with two snow-white spots, the 

 posterior the larger and more triangular. Wings with 

 termen scarcely sinuate. Fore wing apple-green, with eosta 

 narrowly yellow i^h white; markings puri)le-brown, consisting 

 of a rather large rounded diseal spot (slightly paler in centre), 

 two roundish marginal blotches formed as in 7^ lafayariu, 

 Dogn. Le Nat. 1892, p. 206,and a terminal line between then), 

 thickening slightly towards each bloteh; the blotches narrowly 

 margined with yellow i)r()ximally ; fringe purjjle - brown. 

 Hind wing similar, but with diseal sjjot quite small, costa not 

 white, inner margin very narrowly red-brown. Under 

 surface similar, rather paler, the yellow more diffuse; costa 

 of fore wing more yellow, inner margin of hind wing not red- 



• The type ie iu bad condition. 



