30 Miss A. E. Prout on some 



fringe ochreous-browu, darker at the veins, especiallv 

 R^andMi. 



Hind wing with semihyaliue patch on basal costal area, 

 then whitish, thickly irrorated with purplish-brown; a 

 small brown patch on costa between postmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines and a purplish patch between R^ and hind 

 margin as on fore wing ; purplish streaks across terminal 

 area to the crenulations at R-^ and M^ ; a slight purple streak 

 also to M^ ; a broad brown streak, defined on each side by 

 white, across DC- and DC^ ; two or three more or less 

 dentate medial lines, with a purplish shade outside them ; 

 a postmedial brown line, outwardly defined by white from 

 costa at 19 mm. to abdominal margin at 18 mm., nearly 

 following the strong crenulations of the termen ; double 

 black terminal line and fringe as on the fore w^ing. 



Underside of both wings ochreous-brown, the hind wing 

 a little paler; a black spot at middle of discocellulars on 

 each wing ; broad, diffused, blackish terminal and sub- 

 terminal lines on fore wing behind M- and on hind wing ; 

 two or three ill-defined medial lines (more distinct on costa 

 of fore wing) and a single row of black spots before margin 

 of both wings. 



S. Brazil : Rio Grande do Sul {Stgr.) ; type and two other 

 ? ? , one with the upper surface more ochraceous in tone 

 than the type. 



One of these specimens bears the trade name of Letis arpi, 

 but, as I cannot trace the name in print, I now publish the 

 species as new. 



27. Serrodes curvilinea, sp. n. (PI. V. figs. 2 ^J, 3 ? .) 



S . — 50 mm. 



Head, body, legs, and wings brown ; fore wing, tornal 

 area of hind "wing, and rough hair on dorsum of abdomen 

 and base of hind wing shot with violet. 



Fore witig with an outwardly oblique subbasal dash from 

 costa; antemedial line represented by a quadrate brown 

 patch on costa at 5 mm., with a fine brown line (deeply 

 angled outward on M, then inwardly oblique and thickened) 

 connecting it with a broad black-brown patch extending 

 to SM-, where it is broader than at M, then a less distinct 

 blackish line excurved to hind margin at 7 mm. ; outer half 

 of median area brown (especially towards costa) with the 

 reniform upon it, which is an indistinct pale circle wdth 

 indications of two or three small pale spots round it ; post-* 

 medial line deep brown, macular, placed on a broader pale 



