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wiug suffused with fuscous except inner area, a black spot at middle 

 of cell, discoidal poiut with striga above it from costa and puncti- 

 form postmedial line ; hind wing with the terminal area suffused 

 with tuscous, a black discoidal spot, curved fuscous medial and 

 postmedial lines, the latter with black points at discal and 

 submedian folds. 



Hob. Cbtlon, Maskeliya (Alston), 1 d" type. E.vj->. 12 millim. 



5403. Lycaugesia fuscicosta, n. sp. (Plate CLYI. fig. 25.) 



Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with purplish 

 grey and dark brown ; palpi blackish, the extremities of 2nd and 

 3rd joints white; frons white with black line below ; abdomen with 

 the dorsal crests mixed with black ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface 

 of abdomen white tinged with brown. Fore wing whitish suffused 

 with red-brown, the costal area black -brown irrorated with purplish 

 grey to discal fold ; traces of curved broAvn antemedial and medial 

 lines from cell to inner margin ; faint traces of a postmedial line 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved ; two blackish 

 points on costa towards apex ; traces of a pale dentate subterminal 

 line, angled outward at vein 7 and middle, then oblique ; a terminal 

 series of blackish points ; the male with small ante- and postmedial 

 blackish spots in submedian interspace. Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with rufous and thickly irrorated with dark brown ; a slight oblique 

 rufous antemedial line ; a slight rufous discoidal striga ; faint 

 curved dark medial, postmedial, and subterminal lines and a terminal 

 series of blackish points. Underside whitish, the fore wing suffused 

 with brown. 



i/fl6. Panama, La Chorrera (Dolby -Tyler), 1 (5 , 1 $ type. Ejy. 

 16 millim. 



5404. Lycaugesia melasoma, n. sp. (Plate CLVI. fig. 26.) 



c? . Head and thorax whitish suffused with rufous ; palpi black at 

 sides except at extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints ; abdomen whitish 

 suffused with rufous towards base, black towards extremity, the 

 minute dorsal crests black. Pore wing whitish suffused with rufous; 

 the costal edge blackish towards base; a slight subbasal black striga at 

 inner margin ; an antemedial black point on costa and small spots in 

 cell and submedian fold ; a black point at middle of costa and short 

 streaks on costa towards apex ; a slight black streak in discal fold 

 beyond the cell and a small postmedial spot in submedian fold ; a 

 slight subapical black streak ; a terminal series of prominent black 

 points. Hind wing whitish suffused with rufous ; a faint rufous 

 subbasal bar on inner area ; traces of waved rufous medial and 

 postmedial lines ; a terminal series of prominent black points 

 interrupted at middle and a patch of black scales on the cilia at 

 tornus; the underside whitish faintly tinged with rufous. 



