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ventral series of ill-defined white patches. ' Fore wing fuscous 

 brown, the veins slightly streaked with greyish; the apical area 

 white extending on termen to vein 4. Hind wing fuscous brown 

 with slight white irroration in lower extremity of cell and below 

 and just beyond the cell; a white spot at base of inner area. 



JLiI). Fit. Guiana, St. .lean Maroni \Le Moult), type f 2 m 

 Coll. Dognin. Exp. 40 millini. 



*857 c. Episcepsis hampsoni. 



Episcepsis hampsoni, Roths. Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 43 (1911), & xix. 

 p. 375, pi. iii. f. 5. 



c? . Head and thorax dark brown ; frons white at sides ; back of 

 head with two orange spots ; shoulders with orange spots ; palpi 

 white at base, the coxae and femora with some white ; abdomen dark 

 brown, the terminal half and the sides except two basal segments 

 metallic blue, the ventral surface white with dark segmental lines on 

 terminal segments. Fore wing dark brown with small pure white 

 apical patch. Hind wing dark brown with diffused whitish streak 

 below the cell, the tuft in fold of inner area pure white ; the 

 underside with broad white fascia below the cell extending into end 

 of cell and to near termen. 



Hah. Sirixam, Maroewym Valley, Aroewarwa Creek {Klages), 

 type f <$ in Coll. Rothschild. Exp, 34j millini. 



*8. r >7 d. Episcepsis littoralis. 



Episcepsis littoralis, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 44 (1911), & xix. p. 375, 

 pi. iii. f. 10. 



J. Head and thorax dull reddish brown with a slight blue gloss 

 between and behind the antennae and on metathorax : palpi at base, 

 lower part of frons, coxae and femora with some metallic blue; 

 abdomen dull reddish brown with lateral and sublateral scries 

 of metallic blue patches. Fore wing uniform brown with a 

 cupreous gloss. Hind wing dark brown, the lower end of cell and 

 interspaces below and beyond it semihyaline white. Underside 

 with some diffused blue on basal area of fore wing and on basal 

 costal area and inner margin of hind wing. 



Hah. Venezuela., San Esteban (Klages), t} r pe f $ in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp; 36 millini. 



* 857 e. Episcepsis scintillans. 



Episcepsis scintillans, Roths. Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 44 (1911), & xix. p. 375, 

 pi. iii. f. 13. 



c? . Head and thorax dull red-brown suffused with metallic blue ; 

 . emora and tibiae with blue streaks; abdomen dull red-brown with 

 lateral and sublateral metallic blue patches. Fore wing reddish 

 brown glossed with brilliant purple, some metallic blue suffusion at 

 base. Hind wing dark brown, the lower extremity of cell and 



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