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and grey; palpi black-brown, the extremity of second joint 

 white ; tegulae with black-brown medial line edged with 

 white behind ; tarsi black-brown ringed with white; abdo- 

 men grey suffused with brown. Fore wing grey tinged in 

 parts with brown and irrorated with black-brown ; double 

 snbbasal black stme from costa and cell and a black fascia 

 below the cell from the latter to the antemedial line which 

 is formed by double black spots at costa and a double 

 oblique waved line from cell to inner margin; claviform 

 defined by black, moderate ; orbicular and reniform denned 

 by black, rather small, the former round, the latter with its 

 centre defined by black-brown, a black fascia before the 

 former and two streaks on brown suffusion between them ; 

 postmedial line with two black spots at costa, then dark 

 brown, bent outwards below costa, then somewhat dentate 

 with a double series of black points beyond it, strongly 

 incurved below vein 4 and touching lower part of reniform, 

 some black-brown suffusion beyond it on costal area with 

 white points on costa ; a wedge-shaped patch of dark brown 

 suffusion from termen at discal fold and a lunulate patch 

 below vein 3 ; a terminal series of small black lunules; 

 a fine pale line at base of cilia followed by a brown line. 

 Hind wing white ; a blackish discoidal spot and terminal 

 series of small spots except towards tornus ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with black, a postmedial series 

 of minute dark streaks on the veins. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing more uniform brown, the dark markings 

 in the cell and on postmedial area reduced. 



Hub. Peru, Agualani {Ockenden), 1 $ type, Acopampa, 

 1 S • Exp. 30 mm. 



976 b. Lycophotia costaneata, sp. n. 

 $ . Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with chestnut- 

 red and irrorated with a few black scales ; tegulae with 

 black -brown line near tips; antennae blackish, whitish 

 towards base ; palpi chestnut-red, whitish at tips ; sides of 

 frons black-brown ; pectus and legs chestnut-red, the tibiae 

 gi'ey irrorated with blackish ; abdomen grey towards base, 

 rufous towards extremity, the ventral surface chestnut-red. 

 Fore wing purplish grey suffused with chestnut-red, espe- 

 cially on terminal area, and irrorated with a few black scales; 

 antemedial line grey defined on each side by chestnut-red, 

 oblique, waved; a small round black spot defined by grey in 

 middle of cell and minute discoidal lunule faintly defined by 

 grey : postmedial line grey defined on each side by chestnut- 

 red, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved below 



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