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and below SM', the centre bluc-grcy ; cell-spot black, ringed 

 with paler bluish •xrcy ; beyond cell the outer brown band 

 is marked with a black patch ; band beyond fascia bluc-f^rey, 

 white at costa, traversed by an inwardly dentate dark line ; 

 terminal area a mixture of blue-grey, brown, and fuscous, 

 with a bright brown quadrate subapical patch, and traversed 

 by two or three inwardly dentate dark lines, the veins dotted 

 blaik and i)ale ; subterminal line itl-defincd, followed by 

 black wedge-shaped marks on the intcrs|)aces, those below 

 11' and M' with a while spot at base; pale dots at the 

 vein-ends and black Innules between them ; fringe fuscous, 

 proximal half darker than distal. Hind wing fuscous grey 

 with a Idnish tinge ; a dark lunulate-dentatc postmcdian line, 

 followed by a grey band before the darker terminal area ; 

 tein)inal line and fringe as in fore wing. Underside glossy 

 grey-brown with line and cell-spots darker. 



Iluancabamba, Cerro del Pasco, E. Peru ; one c? • 

 I know of no species with which to compare this. The 

 palpus is longer than in typical Perizoma, as it occurs in 

 Europe, and the larger size of the insect, very glossy scaling 

 and slightly ercnulatc termcn of hind wing cause it to sug- 

 gest in aspect a Triphosa almost as much as a Perizoma. 

 Yet the latter genus is at present allowed to contain species 

 with even longer palpus than renitens — conjunctiva, Warr., 

 haasi, Stand. {Ciduria) , basipla(/a, Schaus {Psaliodcs), &c. — 

 and the last-named is of very nearly the texture of the new 

 species. The antenna of renitens is nearly simple, the face 

 with a slight tuft, palpus rough-scaled, DC of hind wing 

 biangulate, the lower arm moderately produced. 



Perizoma (?) apiceflava, sp. u. 

 (J . 27 mm. — Head and thorax eoncolorous with fore wing, 

 shoulders marked with dull yellow ; abdomen eoncolorous 

 with hind wing; legs blackish, the tarsal joints yellow; 

 tongue yellow. Fore wing dull blackisli ; edge of basal 

 patch nearly vertical, faintly curved outwards ; inner edge 

 of central fascia bent on SC, then vertical, with a slight 

 projection on M ; the band between yellow, filled with con- 

 llucnt fuscous striations, except along the margins, which 

 show as fine yellowish lines ; outer edge of central 

 fascia bluntly rounded in middle, oblicjue outwards from 

 costa and inwards to inner margin, obscure excejjt from 

 costa to 11', where it is followed by a yellowish butF band, 

 traversed by black middle line, and connected above 11' with 

 a triangular oblique yellow apical j)atch, preceded hy a 

 blackish, externally lunulatc-cdged costal triangle; marginal 

 line black, interrupted by yellow spots at the veiu-ends ; 



