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of tlic abilonion dark yellow. Piiiiiarios dark Lrown, thickly 

 irroiatcil with gi"«^'y scales ; an indistinct reddish line ex- 

 tending^ from the apox to the middle of the inner margin ; 

 three black spots clo3e to the anal angle and scries of grey 

 blotches along the outer margin: secondaries dark brown, 

 very thickly spotted and blotched with grey; the fringes of 

 both wings dark brown. Underside yellowish brown : pri- 

 niJirics crossed from the apex to near the middle of the inner 

 margin by a rather wide brown line; a marginal row of 

 brown spots extends from the apex to the inner margin : 

 secondaries crossed by a subniarginal waved brown and a 

 marginal row of large brown spots. 



Expanse 8} inches. 



Hal). Peru {Staudinger, Mas. Drnce), 



Family LasiocampidaB. 

 Lebeda peruviana, sp. n, 



Male. — Head, collar, and tegnlm dark brown ; antennaj 

 pale brown ; thorax pale brown, clothed with greyish hairs ; 

 abdomen dark brown; anal tuft pale brown, tipped with 

 black ; palpi, underside of tliorax, abdomen, and legs black. 

 Primaiies: the base, costal half, and two thirds of the outer 

 margin dark brown; an almost round fiatch at the anal angle 

 pale bruwn, with three black spots at the anal angle; two 

 faint brown lines cross the wing near the base, beyond which 

 at the end of the cell is a small white dot ; beyond the cell 

 extending from the costal to the inner margin are two narrow 

 pale brown lines, almost invisible, about the middle of the 

 wing. Secondaries dark reddish brown, palest on the inner 

 margin ; the fringe pale greyish brown. Underside of both 

 wings dark brown, thickly irrorated with pale brown scales ; 

 both wings crossed beyond the middle by two curved, narrow, 

 jiale reddish-brown bands. 



Expanse 3^ inches. 



JIa(>. S.E. Peru, Oconeque, Carabaya, 7000 feet (Mus. 

 J J nice). 



Allied to Leheda Championi, Driice, and Leheda lineola, 

 ^laas, but very distinct from cither. I have one specimen 

 of this species from Bolivia, received some years ago from the 

 late Dr. Staudinger. 



Onm'scodes? nigrolinea^ sj). n. 



Female. — Head, palpi, antenna?, collar, tegulaj, thorax, and 

 abdomen brick-red ; legs dark brown. Primaries brick-red, 



