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15. Melasiopsis irichroa, sp. n. 



? .—20 mm. 



Faco blackish ; palpus pale beneath. "Vertex narrowly 

 yellowish ; occiput mixed with blackish ; collar rosy. 

 Thorax and abdomen yellow, much mixed with rosy above. 



Fore wing with SO 5 arising Brom cell; glossy yellow; 

 proximal area, as far as the oblique, somewhat sinuous ante- 

 median line (or band), predominantly peach-blossom pink, 

 costal margin broadly but not very definitely suifused with 

 pink, in proximal part also slightly with dark purple-grey ; 

 median pink line thickest anteriorly, slightly sinuous ; post- 

 median irregular, bent outwards to M 1 , interrupted between 

 the medians, thick behind M 3 , partly confluent with a pink 

 tornal spot ; some slight pink apical suffusions ; just proximal 

 to the antemedian line in the cell is placed a small blackish- 

 slate spot, on the anterior half of the postmedian band a 

 similarly coloured line; fringe pale yellow. 



Hind wiii</ with termen shallowly sinuate between the 

 radials, slightly toothed at ends of veins; SCP-R 1 moderately 

 stalked; proximal half yellow with ill-defined sinuous ante- 

 median and median lines, distal half predominantly pink, but 

 with irregular spots of the ground-colour, suggesting a sinuous 

 or dentate transverse band; fringe pale yellow. 



Underside somewhat paler yellow with similar but weaker 

 markings, the antemedian and median lines of hind wing 

 obsolete behind cell, the distal pink shading of hind wing 

 much feebler, suggesting two thick sinuous lines. 



Bonda, Colombia, 150 feet (//. II. Smith), type and another 

 in coll. Joicey. 



Suggestive of radaria, Schs., and other pink-and-yellow 

 species, but with the superimposed purple-grey markings 

 characteristic. 



16. Ptychopoda complexaria amazonensis, subsp. n. 



Somatina ebumeata ? (part.), Bail., Tr. Ent. Soc. Loixl. 1881, p.: 3 10 

 (indescr.), nee Guen. 



Differs from complexaria complexaria, Schs. (Tr. Amer. 

 Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 257), S.E. Peru, in lacking tho black 

 spots on abdomen, in having the spots of the proximal half of 

 fore wing reduced in size, those at the end of the cell united 

 into a ring, the subtermiual spots well defined between the 

 radials, and generally between II 3 and M 2 , as well as at hind 

 margin. Abdomen more or less strongly belted with ochreous 

 brown. 



Contamama, Rio Ucayali, Peruvian Amazons, Oct.-Dec, 



