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wing reddish brown; the veins and a broad shade following 
the outer line violaceous black; the outer line fine, velvety 
black, irregular, excurved beyond cell, incurved below reni- 
form; reniform large, white, crossed by two brown shades ; 
costal margin beyond outer line black, with four buff spots ; 
subterminal wavy, velvety black between veins 6 and 8, 
otherwise dark reddish brown, followed by some blackish 
blotches; a submarginal black line interrupted by the veins ; 
a terminal dark line; fringe buff and grey, crossed by darker 
shades. Secondaries brown, the costa broadly paler; a black 
streak from base near inner margin; outer line fine, black, 
deeply dentate, not extending above vein 6; the subterminal 
dark red, shaded with brownish red, and followed near anal 
angle by a violaceous black shade; veins on outer margin 
violaceous black; a submarginal interrupted black line. 
Underneath : primaries buff, irrorated with brown and grey 
scales; a dark inner and outer line, the former geminate on 
costa; a brown discal spot, divided by a pale line; base of 
fringe white. Secondaries buff, irrorated with brown; an 
inner line, angled in cell at the large discal spot ; a finely 
wavy outer line ; a broad subterminal brown shade. 
Expanse 46 millim. 
Hab. Aroa, Venezuela. 
Campometra caminata. 
Palpi, head, and collar light brown, the latter with a dark 
transverse line anteriorly and posteriorly. Thorax light 
brown, with dark markings; clusters of white scales on 
patagie. Primaries: an evenly curved broad buff and white 
inner band, outwardly finely edged with black; a pale streak 
from base to inner line along and below median vein; some 
brown and buff marks on costa; basal space above inner 
margin dark brown; median space to reniform light brown; 
a geminate dark brown transverse median line, interrupted 
just below median vein, and suffusing on inner margin ; 
reniform large, white, oblique, bifurcating posteriorly, con- 
taining a black point anteriorly and a buff spot below it, and 
is also finely edged with black; a black line from reniform to 
inner margin, slightly curved inwardly, so the median space 
between this line and inner line is much narrower below the 
cell than on the margins ; space to subterminal light brown, 
with dark brown patches between the veins and a deeply 
dentate outer black line from costa to vein 3; subterminal 
broad, buff, parallel to outer margin, inwardly edged with 
black, outwardly with brownish black, and followed by a 
narrow lilacine shade between veins 2 and 5; outer margin 
light brown, darker towards apex ; a submarginal black line, 
