524 Mr. L. B. Prout 07i 



San Antonio, W. Colombia, 5800 feet, December 1907 

 (.17. G. Palmer) ; one ? . 



Drnce's betala belongs to tlie Nipteria section, the ? 

 antenna being non-pectinate. 



Nephodia [Nipteria] consequens, sp. n. 



$ , 43 mm. — Face and palpus luteous ; head, body, and 

 wings uniform palebrovvnis^h grey, the wings thickly irrorated 

 with slightly darker scales, somewhat less glossy than in 

 most of the genus ; the lines fine, darker brownish grey. 

 Fore wing with antemedian from SC at one-third, slightly 

 outcurvcd in cell, then straight from base of M^ to inner 

 margin, barely traceable between costa and SC ; postraedian 

 from costa at nearly three-fourths, gently outcurved beyond 

 cell, nearly parallel with terraen from R^ to inner margin; 

 a slightly elongate cell-spot concolorous with the lines; no 

 dark terminal line; fringe concolorous. Hind wing slightly 

 less irrorated, especially in basal part, a curved postmedian 

 line from just before SC^ at two-thirds (of wing) to inner 

 margin at five-sevenths. Underside slightly paler than 

 upper, the lines of fore wing faintly showing through. 



Antenna nearly simple, agreeing with the ? antennae o£ 

 the rest of the Nipteria section, so far as known to me. 



Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 6000 feet; one ? . 

 I have seen a second from the same locality. 



Much paler than N. tiza, Dogn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlii. 

 p. 34:8, = turpis, Warr. Nov. Zool. xi. p. 104 (nov. syn.) ; also 

 paler than ellopiata, Dogn. loc. cit. xlvi. p. 346, of which it 

 reminds in texture and scaling, but which has the post- 

 median line different, the underside much darker, &c. 



Nephodia [Nipteria] falculata, sp. n. 



? . 43 mm, — Fore wing with apex bluntly falcate, the 

 termen having a shallow rounded excision below it. Head, 

 thorax, abdomen, and upper surface of wings uniform glossy 

 brownish grey, as in the N. incoloraria (Guen.) group. 

 Under surface darker and redder, dusted with fuscous, the 

 fore wing with an indistinct darker marginal cloud from 

 about SC^ to tornus, narrowing off to a point at tornal end ; 

 inner marginal half of fore wing otherwise slightly paler 

 than costal ; both wings with minute dark cell-spot, and 

 faint dark postmedian line, strongly dark dotted on the 

 veins ; that of fore wing from costa at 4 mm. before apex, 

 very slightly oblique inwards ; that of hind wing also at 

 about 4 mm. from termen, nearly parallel therewith, but 



