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third joint moderate, red. Vertex white ; occiput red. Antennal shaft reddish ; 

 pectinations long for the genus — about six times diameter of shaft. Thorax above 

 green ; abdomen in part greenish, mixed with red, first tergite with a red spot, 

 second and fourth each with a large snow-white, red-encircled spot, fifth with a 

 similar but much smaller spot. Hindtibial process more than half as long as first 

 tarsal joint. 



Wings shaped, coloured and marked about as in albociliaria H.-Sch. 

 (= purpureotincta Warr.), the red markings less purple, approaching those of 

 molliculata Warr. — —Foreiving with SC 1 anastomosing or osculating with C; 

 costal margin rather markedly arched, narrowly dark red ; cell-spot rather large, 

 but not quite so large as in most albociliaria ; postmedian dots (or dashes) only 



very slightly whitish-edged distally, the costal one not appreciably enlarged. 



Hindioing nearly as forewing, antemedian line only represented by a red dash on M 

 proximal to the origin of M 3 , postmedian with more of the red and less of the 

 white than in albociliaria. 



Underside whitish green, the anterior part of forewing greener; dark red 

 costal margin rather broader than above, projecting a streak at origin of postmedian 

 line, which is otherwise (in common with the other markings) more or less 

 completely obsolete ; forewing sometimes with a small red cell-spot. 



Peru: Santo Domingo, Carabaya, 6500 ft. (G. R. Ockenden), 7 <Jd\ the type 

 October 1902, dry season; Tinguri, Carabaya, 3400 ft., January 1905, wet season 

 (G. R. Ockenden), 1 c? ; Huancabamba, Cerro del Pasco (E. Boettger), 1 <S. Also 

 a small c? from Chiriqui, Panama. All in coll. Tring Mus. 



A discoloured $, slightly larger, taken with the type, is no doubt referable 

 here, though the species, except in the c? antennal pectinations, is puzzüngly like 

 molliculata and an insect which I take to be the Peruvian form of albociliaria, 

 both of which latter also occur at Santo Domingo. 



21. Racheospila rhodonota sp. nov. 



c?, 34-35 mm. Face and palpus deep vinous or "pomegranate purple"; 

 vertex snow-white ; occiput crimson ; palpus narrowly pale beneath, short, with 

 third joint quite small. Antenna white proximally, red distally; pectinations 

 almost three times as long as diameter of shaft. Collar and thorax above green. 

 Abdomen above reddish, the first, third, and fourth segments mostly crimson, these 

 and the second segment sometimes each with a narrow white mediodorsal spot. 

 Foretibia with innerside and tuft blackish fuscous ; hindtibia with short process 

 {not quite as long as inner terminal spur). 



Forewing with costa very slightly arched, apex rather acute, termen oblique, 

 scarcely curved ; SC 1 anastomosing strongly with C and sometimes with SC 2 , DC 3 

 strongly oblique posteriorly, M 1 widely separate ; light green, not very opaque, 

 •costal edge vinous nearly to apex, at base inclining to crimson ; markings vinous ; 

 cell-spot large ; lines represented by short dashes on the veins ; antemedian with 

 the dash on SC smaller, that on M just proximal to the origin of M 2 ; postmedian 

 oblique outward or obsolete from costa to R 1 , about parallel with termen (at 3 mm. 

 distance) from R 1 to M l , then slightly incurved ; faint indications of a crenulate 

 pale line, especially as teeth on the veins accompanying the postmedian dashes 

 distally ; terminal line broken into long dashes ; fringe more yellowish, palest at 



base, weakly spotted with reddish. Hindwing with termen convex, scarcely 



waved, almost inappreciably bent at R 3 ; DC 3 very oblique, M 1 rather widely 



