546 KOCTUlli.E. 



black points just before termen. Hind wing brown witli a 

 cupreous reddish gloss ; the apical area somewhat darker with 

 a faint subterminal shade from it to tornus ; the underside 

 grey-brown irrorated with dark brown, a dark postmedial line 

 minutely waved to vein 4, faint subterminal shade, a series of black 

 points before termen. 



Ah. 1. Eoro wing with some violaceous white suffusion beyond 

 the medial line. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with fiery orange patcli on costal area before 

 and beyond the postmedial line and spots on the postmedial line 

 below end of cell and above inner margin. 



Hah. W. CoLOMMA, El Credo, 1 S; Venezuela, Aroa, 1 J; 

 Brazil, Castro Parana (7). Jones), 2 c? • Exp. 40-44 millim. 



7680. Ophisma tecta. (Plate CCXIX. fig. 5.) 



Ophisma tecta, Scliaus, Trans. A in. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 243 (1894). 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen dull red-brown ; palpi, pectus, 

 legs, and ventral surface of abdomen irrorated with grey, the tarsi 

 ringed with whitish. Eore wing with the basal area to the medial 

 line dull red-brown, the rest of wing dark brown ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, whitish, oblique, sinuons ; medial line fine, white, 

 strongly incurved ; postmedial line very indistinct, dark, slightly 

 defined on outer side by white towards costa, minutely waved, 

 oblique to vein 6, then bent inwards, obliquely excurved to sub- 

 median fold near termen, then retracted to vein 3 just beyond 

 lower angle of cell and erect and waved to inner margin, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; a very indistinct slightly waved 

 dark subterminal line with slight white irroration beyond it at 

 costa ; a series of black points just before termen. Hind wing 

 dark brown with a fine pale line at base of cilia. Underside 

 greyish brown ; fore wing with the costa irrorated with white, 

 two white points towards apex and a white patch at apex, a 

 dark discoidal bar and indistinct waved postmedinl and sub- 

 terminal lines ; hind wing irrorated with violaceous white except on 

 inner and terminal areas, a minutely waved dark postmedial line. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (ScJiaHs), 1 J; Prazil, Castro Parana. 

 E.vp. 44 millim, 



*7681. Ophisma nobilis. (Plate CCXIX. fig. 6.) 

 Ophif^ma iiolul'h. Sdiaus, A. M. N. H. (8) Tii. p. 62 (1911). 



rS . Head and thorax chocolate red-brown ; palpi grey-brown : 

 pectus and legs grey mixed with brown, the tarsi fuscous ringed 

 with whitish ; abdomen deep chocolate-brown, the anal tuft with 

 some grej', the ventral surface black-brown slightly irrorated with 

 grev. Fore wing with the basal area chocolate red-brown, tjie 

 rest of wing pale red-brown with a large lunulate chocolate-brown 



