40 Mr. W. Scli:;us on 



Expanse 42 mm. 



Female: Head, collar, and thorax lilacine; a medial dark 

 line. Abdomen roseate buff. Fore wings : the dark portions 

 olive-brown, tinged with reddish on apical area; the base, 

 antemedial shade, a broad shade beyond medial line, and 

 narrow shades before postmedial and subterminal lines, also 

 the termen, distinctly lilacine. Hind wings roseate buflf; 

 traces of an interrupted dark subterminal shade. Wings 

 below buff, heavily shaded with lilacine, the postmedial 

 shades and lines, also the outer margins, especially of fore 

 wings, violaceous. 



Expanse 58 mm. 



Ilab. Cart ago, Juan Tinas, 



Turuenna f estiva, sp. n. 



^ . Palpi dark brown, shaded above with buff. Heacf, 

 collar, and thorax dull ])uff, with a medial darker shade. 

 Abdomen roseate ochre above ; a fuscous dorsal line ; under- 

 neath dark violaceous. Fore wings : the base greyish buff, 

 followed by a broad dull olive shade inwardly oblique from 

 costa ; the antemedial space darker than the base and crossed 

 by a line dark line ; a distinct medial olive-brown line, some- 

 what incurved, followed by a dark buft' space expanding to 

 postmedial below vein 4, crossed by a vague olive shade, 

 which is broad and darker from vein 4 to costa ; the apical 

 area also dull olivaceous; a black discal point ; the post- 

 medial line distinct, fine, dark olive, ol^lique from costa and 

 angled at vein 7 ; the subterminal line sinuous, shaded with 

 butt' from vein 5 to inner margin. Hind wings : the costal 

 half fuscous; the inner half yellowish buii'. Fore wings 

 below yellowish buff; the costa and a broad postmedial 

 shade from vein G to costa violaceous, the latter followed by 

 a dark curved line from costa to vein 4 ; tiie apex lilacine. 

 Hind wings below : above median and vein 3 dark lilacine, 

 with broad postmedial violaceous shade and a fine dark line ; 

 below cell and vein 3 yellowish buff; traces of an interrupted 

 subterminal line. 



Expanse 36 mm. 



Female: Abdomen ochreous. Fore wings lilacine; the 

 lines fine, dark olive-brown; the shadings olive-brown, not 

 £0 heavy as in the male. Hind wings'yellowish buff; an 

 indistinct postmedial line and a subterminal row of black 

 spots. Underneath brownish buff", with the dark shadings 

 much reduced. Fore wings : the outer margin shaded with 

 purplish ; the lines visible, the subterminal straight, not 



