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Racheospila montana montana. Pale terra-verte, with a slight suspicion of 

 bluish, the white lines a little thickened. 



Agualani, Carabaya, 9000 ft., August — December 1905 (G. R. Ockenden). 



Racheospila montana tenuilinea. Pale terra-verte, without suspicion of bluish, 

 the white lines quite slender. 



Oconeque, 7000 ft., July 1904, dry season (G. R. Ockenden). 



Racheospila montana smaragdina. Deeper coloured, almost emerald green, 

 the white lines still finer. 



Hnancabamba, Cerro de Pasco (E. Boettger). 



26. Racheospila viridilinea sp. nov. 



c?, 24-28 mm. ; ? , 30 mm. Face green, slightly prominent. Palpus scarcely 

 reaching beyond face, with third joint quite short ; mostly fuscous, first and second 

 joints beneath whitish. Vertex broadly white ; occiput green. Antennal shaft 

 white proximally, reddish distal ly ; pectinations scarcely twice as long as diameter 

 of shaft. Thorax and part of abdomen green above ; abdomen with small white 

 spots at posterior end of segments. Foretibia infuscated on upper and inner side ; 

 hindtibia with process about half as long as first tarsal joint. 



Forewing with apex moderately sharp, termen almost straight, oblique, SC 1 

 free ; bright bice green, a little brighter than in most of the allies (diarita group) ; 

 costal edge narrowly white, then narrowly ochreons, at extreme base tinged with 

 red ; lines white, very fine, not interrupted ; antemedian very slightly angulated 

 outward on M ; postmedian from about two-thirds costa, slightly incurved near its 

 origin, right-angled at R 1 , thence extremely slightly lunuiate-dentate (sometimes 

 appearing to the naked eye almost smooth), forming an extremely gentle inward 

 curve in posterior half : discal dot black, strong ; terminal line obsolete ; fringe 



whitish ochreous, unspotted. Hindwing with termen rather full, bluntly bent in 



middle, M 1 connate or very shortly stalked ; cell-dot as on forewing ; first line 

 curved, rather near cell-dot ; postmedian rather more dentate than on forewing, 

 projecting outward at R 3 — M 1 , incurved between M 2 and SM 2 . 



Forewing beneath in anterior part (nearly to hindmargin proximally, less 

 extended distally) deeper green than in the allies ; costal edge whitish, tinged with 

 red in proximal half; cell-dot present ; a vague white, proximally green-edged 

 postmedian line ; a fuscous-reddish apical dot on fringe. Hindwing whitish, greener 

 from base to the place of the antemedian line ; cell-dot present ; a conspicuous 

 green postmedian line, following the proximal edge of the white line of npperside. 



Santo Domingo, Carabaya, Peru, 6000 ft., December 1901, March— May 1902, 

 7 <?<?, December 1902, 1 ? (G. R. Ockenden), in coll. Tring Mus. 



Most easily recognised by the underside. A race (?) with termen of forewing 

 rather more oblique, of hindwing less bent, ground-colour slightly paler, cell-dots 

 sometimes minute, occurs at Cushi (coll. Tring Mus.) and Huancabamba (coll. L. B. 

 Prout) ; on the upperside this rather recalls carmen Prout. 



27. Racheospila cosmeta peruviana subsp. nov. 



Face more uniformly red than in cosmeta cosmeta Prout, from Mexico and 

 Costa Rica (in which it is markedly white at lower edge and upper corners). 

 Abdomen with the white spots smaller, though sharply expressed. 



Forewing with a conspicuous blackish-red cell-dot ; fringe more conspicuously 



