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margin ; the subterminal line sometimes faintlj^ defined by the 

 area beyond it being brownish, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a series of black points just before termen. 

 Hind wing semihyaline white ; the veins, costa, and termen tinged 

 ■with brown, some dark points on apical half of termen usually 

 present ; the underside with discoidai point, the costal area irro- 

 rated with brown. 



Hah. Chile (Edmonds), 1 c5' , 4 5 , type htciUa, Coquimbo (J. J. 

 Wcdker), 2 5 ; Patagonia., Punta Arenas (/. J. WalJcer), I c? ; 

 Straits of Magellan, type f c? pesronii, in Mus. Paris, Tierra del 

 Fuego, tvpe f dir/ramma, in Mus. Paris ; hab.? 1 5 , type furcif era. 

 Exp. 32-38 miliim. 



964. Lycophotia melanobasis, n. sp. (Plate LXXV. fig. 3.) 



S • Head and thorax grey and black ; sides of frons with black 

 spots ; tegula3 with black medial band, the tips paler ; abdomen 

 grey sufiused with fuscous brown. Fore wing grey sufi'used with 

 fuscous and brown, and striated with dark brown ; the subbasal 

 line represented by black points below costa and cell ; a broad 

 diff^uscd black band before the antemedial line, which is slightl)^ 

 angled oi;twards below costa and cell and strongly bent outwards 

 above inner margin ; claviform represented by a black point at its 

 extremity ; orbicular and reniform small, with grey annuli defined 

 by black and black centres, the former round ; traces of a medial 

 shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the jDOstmedial 

 line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique, the area beyond it suffused with black leaving 

 the apex greyish ; a terminal punctiform line. Hind wing white; 

 the costal area and termen slightl)- irrorated with fuscous ; the 

 underside with discoidai point, postmedial series of points on the 

 veins and some points on termen. 



Hah. Ueuguay, Colon (0. Tliomas), 1 S fype. Exp. 34 miliim. 



965. Lycophotia ferruginescens. (Plate LXXV. fig. 4.) 



Cerastis ferruginescens, Blanchard, Gay's Fauna Chile, vii. p. 83, pi. 6. f. 10 

 (1854). 



cJ . Head brownish ; tegulte black at base, pale at tips ; thorax 

 and abdomen ochreous white, slightly irrorated with dark brown. 

 Fore wing ochreous white, sparsely irrorated with dark brown ; a 

 double, waved, subbasal line from costa to vein 1, a blackish patch on 

 costal half of wing between it and the antemedial line, which is 

 double, waved, and angled inwards on vein 1 ; the claviform repre- 

 sented by a minute black point at its extremity ; orbicular and 

 reniform small, obsoletely defined by black, the former round with 

 black point at centre, the latter with black point in lower extremity ; 

 traces of a medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 the postmedial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, and with a quadrate black patch 

 on its outer edge at costa ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 



