288 Mr. L. B. Prout on neio 



5. Phaloe isosoma, sp. n. 



? . — 5G mm. 



Head bhick, spotted witli wliite, conspicuous being a more 

 or less trian;j;uiar white spot at each corner of face, tlie upper 

 pair the larj^er ; postorbital rim white. Palpus black, some- 

 what marked with white near base ; third joint elongate. 

 Antenna black, the pectinations about as long as diameter 

 of shaft. Thorax above brown-black, anteriorly dotted with 

 white. Abdomen above and beneath white, with narrow 

 dark segmental rings, an ill-defined, interrupted, narrow 

 median dorsal stripe and a lather less narrow lateral one. 

 Legs longitudinally striped black and white. 



Fore iving brown-bhick, not quite opnqutly scaled ; veins 

 black ; a red line or narrow streak from base in front of C, 

 about 8 mm. in length ; an oblique pale band from costa 

 before middle running in direction of tornus, but ending at 

 fold, white at costal end, otlu rvvise pale brownisli grey, sub- 

 translucent; a subiraii.slucent (but whiter) subapical patch 

 from SC* to near K\ narrowing posteriorly. 



Hind icing with ]\P stalked with R', as in patiila, Walk., 

 trotschi, Druce, verotna, Drucc, etc., but not in the geno- 

 type ; predominantly white, becoming translucent in end of 

 cell and outwards, from W to behind M' (possibly here 

 rubbed, but quite uniform on the two wings) ; a small slight 

 dark basal patch ; a black distal border of about 5 mm. 

 breadth, sliglitly broader apically and narrower near tornus, 

 its proximal border slightly crenulate, especially in posterior 

 half; a minute whito terminal mark between SC* and W, 

 extending on to the tringes. 



Fore wing beneath with the red costal streak rather 

 broader and brighter, proximally slightl)' underlined with 

 whito on C ; median band white ; subapical patch nearly as 

 above ; a white streak behind cell, interrupteil near base and 

 not reaching base of i\P ; a white terminal spot between the 

 medians. Hind wing beneath white, wi'th the subtrans- 

 Incent patch as above ; veins somewhat blackened, es[)ecially 

 C and SC aTul the space between them prior to their diver- 

 gence; black border as above, but with the spot between 

 8C^ and W rather larger, an abdominal white terminal spot 

 about Al' and a very fine white terminal line between fold 

 and SM2. 



Chanchamayo, E. Peru. 



Near patuhi, Walk. (List Lep. Ins. ii. p. 349), distin- 

 guished \)y the red costal streak, the central band of fore wing 



