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and middle and black tips ; pro thorax with black patch, the meso- 

 and meta thorax with paired oblique black bars ; pectus white mixed 

 with blackish ; legs black, the tibiae and tarsi with slight pale rings ; 

 abdomen black with broad subdorsal fulvous yellow fasciae, the anal 

 tuft and ventral suface with white mixed. Fore wing white tinged 

 Avith yellow and almost entii'ely suffused with blackish except on 

 costal half to beyond the cell ; a curved black streak from costa 

 near base to base of cell and a small spot on median nervtire ; 

 antemedial line double, black filled in with whitish, waved, the 

 outer line with oblique black bar from costa, the inner line with 

 dentate mark in cell ; orbicular with strong black annulus, round ; 

 reniform defined by black, elliptical with small black spot in centre ; 

 medial line black, waved, excurved at middle ; postmedial fine 

 strong, double, black filled in with whitish, excurved from below 

 costa to vein 6, then waved, incurved below vein 4, some small 

 black spots beyond it on costa ; subterminal line yellowish white 

 defined on inner side by black, slightly incurved to vein 6, then 

 somewhat dentate and more strongly angled inwards below vein 3 ; 

 a terminal series of triangular black spots defined by a waved 

 whitish line with a blackish band before it interrupted below veins 

 7 and 4 ; cilia chequered black and yellowish white. Hind wing 

 semihyaline white with a slight black bar at tornus ; the undei'side 

 with black discoidal spot, medial, postmedial, and subterminal bars 

 from costa, and the extremities of veins 7 to 2 sti'eaked with black. 

 Hah. Colombia {Marks), 1 6 type. JExp. 46 millim. 



*8216. Lichnoptera atrifrons. (Plate CCXXXV. fig. 21.) 



Lichwi^tera atrifrons, Dogn. Het. Noiiv. Am. Sud, vi. p. 16 (1912). 



$ . Head and thorax white ; antennae black except towards base 

 and with black band between their bases ; frons irrorated with 

 blackish ; palpi black ; tegulse with black band ; patagia with black 

 spots at base and middle and black tips ; pro-, meso-, and meta thorax 

 with paired black spots ; pectiTs black-brown ; legs banded black 

 and white ; abdomen black-brown in-orated with a few whitish 

 scales and with dorsal series of slight white spots, yellow lateral 

 streaks except towards extremity. Fore wing pure white ; a black 

 spot at base of costa, a curved subbasal black striga from costa and 

 spot below the cell ; antemedial area with an oblique sinuous 

 blackish band formed by spots in and below the cell and above and 

 below vein 1 ; antemedial line black, oblique towards costa, then 

 waved, some red-brown between it and the medial line above vein 1 

 and some striae above inner margin ; orbicular a black annulus ; 

 reniform a small lunule defined by black, two black spots above it 

 on costa and an oblique waved line from it to inner margin ; som.e 

 red-brown suffusion in end of cell and between veins 3 and 2 to the 

 subterminal line ; two slight lines and a small black spot beyond 

 end of cell ; a blackish patch on postmedial part of costal area with 

 some white points on costa, the postmedial line arising from it, 



