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the basal crest with black mixed. Fore wing white irrorated and 

 suffused with chocolate-brown, the basal area rather whiter ; ante- 

 medial line indistinctly double, blackish, curved, waved ; orbicular 

 a round whitish spot with point of raised black scales in centre ; the 

 reniform represented by two obliquely placed points of raised black 

 scales; postmedial line red-brown, bent outwards below costa, then 



Fig. 1-il. — ElcBognatha melanosticta, (^ . \. 



minutely waved, oblique to vein 4, then very oblique inwardly to 

 vein 1 before middle and bent outwards to inner margin ; post- 

 medial line whitish defined on inner side by brown, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle, angled inwards at discal fold and bent inwards 

 below vein 3, then oblique to tornus ; a terminal series of small 

 black spots. Hind wing semihyaline whitish tinged with brown 

 especially in female, the cilia whiter. 



Ab. 1. Eore wing with the medial area below the cell suffused 

 with fuscous and bluish green, a white point with black annuliis 

 defined by white except below above submedian fold. 



Ab. 2. Similar but with black medial point with white annulus 

 above submedian fold. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with the basal area, the outer edge of ante- 

 medial line to submedian fold and a fascia below the cell extending 

 to postmedial line variegated with yellowish white and slightly 

 tinged with green. 



Ab. 4. Thorax with some bright yellow at tips of patagia and 

 extremity of metathorax ; fore wing with yellow and greenish 

 streak above vein 1, the antemedial line with some greenish and 

 yellow on each side to median nervure, then an obliquely curved 

 yellow fascia to postmedial line at vein 1. 



Eah. CosTA EicA, La Florida, Sixola K. (Schaus), 1 § ; Colombia, 

 Popayan ; Fr. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni ; Peru, La Oroya 

 [Ockenden), S. Domingo (Ockenden), 1 c? , E^y. 34 millim. Type f 

 in Coll. Druce. 



*6697. Elaeognatha cacaonis. (Plate CLXXXIV. fig. 10.) 



Elmognatha cacaonis, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) vi. p. 180 (1910). 



5 . Head and thorax chocolate-brown mixed with grey ; palpi 

 with the 2nd joint dark brown at sides ; abdomen purplish grey- 

 brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing whitish almost 

 entirely suffused and irrorated . with chocolate-brown, the basal 



