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the whole inner area with a greyish tinge ; the underside with this 

 area white. 



Hob. Venezuela, Caura R., La Union ; Brazil, Amazons, 

 Fonte Boa (Klages), type f S in Coll. Rothschild, R. Madeira, 

 Calama (Hoffmanns). Exp. 38 millim. 



*999c. Desmotricha perplexa. (Plate XV. fig. 19.) 

 Trichodesma perplexa, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 158 (1912). 



Head and thorax dark red- brown, the sides of head and tegula? 

 orange-yellow, the patagia with greyish streaks at middle and 

 above ; palpi with the basal joint and 2nd joint in front yellow ; 

 fore coxa? and femora streaked with white ; abdomen dull 

 red-brown with a bluish gloss towards extremity, the ventral 

 surface pale grey-brown. Fore wing dark red-brown, the basal 

 half with pale streaks on costa and veins and in submedian fold ; 

 a rather broad oblique yellow band from just below costa bevond 

 middle to just before termen above tornus. Hind wing dark 

 reddish brown, the inner margin with a greyish tinge; the underside 

 with the lower part of cell and whole inner area white. 



Hah. Brazil, Amazons, Fonte Boa (Klages), type f S in 

 Coll. Rothschild, Teffe (M. de Hatha n), San Antonio do Javary 

 (Klages). Exp. 36 millim. 



*1001ff. Desmotricha hoffmannsi. (Plate XV. fig. 20.) 



Trichodesma hoffmannsi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 158 (1912). 



Head pale yellow with brown patches on frons and vertex ; 

 antenna? blackish ; palpi brown, the 1st joint and 2nd joint in 

 front and at extremity yellow ; thorax reddish brown, the tegulae 

 yellowish at base, the patagia with whitish streaks ; coxae white, 

 the femora streaked with white ; abdomen brown with a bluish 

 gloss on dorsum and sublateral white fasciae except at extremity. 

 Fore wing dark reddish brown, the basal half with pale streaks on 

 costa and veins and in submedian fold ; a rather broad oblique 

 yellow postmedial band from just below costa to just before termen 

 above tornus, towards which it narrows somewhat. Hind wing 

 dark reddish brown with a wedge-shaped yellow fascia in and 

 below lower part of cell from near base to near termen, its 

 extremity rounded ; the underside with the inner area white. 



Hab. Peru, Pozuzo, Huanuco (Hoffmanns), type t 6 in Coll, 

 Rothschild; Bolivia, Buenavista (Steinbach). Exp. 31 millim, 



*1001 b. Desmotricha trita. (Plate XV. tig. 21.) 



Trichodesma trita, Dogn. Het. Nouv. Am. Slid, iii. p. 5 (1911). 



Black-brown ; base of palpi and gulae yellowish. Fore wing 

 with broad oblique yellow band from costa beyond middle to termen 



