216 NoCTuiD,?:. 



pale annulus defined by black, round ; reniforra pale rufous defined 

 by black on inner side ; postmedial line indistinctly double filled in 

 with gre)', bent outwards below costa, then dentate, strongly 

 excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved ; postmedial area with 

 some pale points on the black costal patch and a small black spot 

 in submedian fold ; subterminal line very indistinct, pale, defined 

 on inner side by slight dark points and dentate marks and with 

 small blackish spot beyond it in submedian fold, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle; a slight waved black terminal line; cilia 

 with a slight pale line at base. Hind wing white, the costal 

 and terminal areas suffused with fuscous brown ; a rather diffused 

 dark discoidal lunule ; inner margin brown with a blackish mark 

 above tornus ; cilia white at base, brown at tips, wholly white at 

 submedian interspace ; the underside white, the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with brown, a dark waved antemedial line from 

 costa to diseal fold, black discoidal lunule, bisinuate postmedial 

 line, and diffused subterminal line. 



Hah. Brazil, Stao Paulo (/). Jones)., 1 S ■, Castro Parana, type t 

 in Coll. Schaus ; Argentina, Los Yasquez. Exp. 36 millim. 



Genus PAEATEACHEA, nov. 



Type, P. laches. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 to vertex of head, tbe 3rd moderate or long and porrect ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, rounded ; antenna ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair and 

 hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with divided crests ; tibia3 fringed 

 with hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests and some i-ough hair at base. 

 Fore wing rather narrow, the apes rounded, the termen crenulate; veins 3 

 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from uj^per angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle; S anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the lines defined by green leeches. 



B. Fore wing with the lines defined by silvery blue chalybeata. 



2993. Paratrachea laches. 



Valeria laches, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 292, pi. 27. f. 20 (1889). 



Head and thorax rufous with a slight purplish tinge ; palpi 

 brownish and ochreous ; tibiae and tarsi with brownish bands ; 

 abdomen ochreous suff'used with rufous at extremity. Fore wing 

 olive-yellow suffused in parts with rufous, the costa, veins, and 

 terminal area purplish brown irrorated with grey ; the basal area 

 below cell dark brown and rufous ; subbasal line represented by 

 double strise from costa and cell ; a black spot defined on each side 

 by olive-yellow on inner margin before the antemedial line which 

 is double at costa, angled inwards in cell, outwards at vein 1, then 

 strongly retracted to inner margin ; claviform defined at extremity 

 only by yellow and black ; orbicular with yellow annulus and pale 

 rufous centre defined by a hoop-shaped black line, open below ; 

 reniform with pinkish-grey centre defined on inner side by a black 



