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30. Racheospila radiolinea sp. nov. 



c?, 32-37 mm. Face brown, very narrowly white below. Palpus scarcely 

 reaching beyond frons ; darker brown, white beneath. Vertex green. Antennal 

 pectinations scarcely longer than diameter of shaft. Patagia and base of tegnlae 

 green ; thorax otherwise mostly fuscous above, metathorax with a green spot. 

 Abdomen dorsally fuscous at base, then mediodorsally green, the segments (especially 

 the fourth) more or less spotted with fuscous posteriorly ; subdorsally fuscous. 

 Body beneath pale. Legs whitish, the foretibia mixed with fuscous ; hindtibial 

 process reaching scarcely beyond middle of first tarsal joint. 



Forewing with SC 1 free ; rather light green, not very opaque, costal margin 

 dark reddish fuscous ; markings dark reddish fuscous ; a small basal patch, mixed 

 with blackish, its edge rather oblique outward and somewhat angled outward on M ; 

 antemedian line double, somewhat confluent into a bar, rather oblique outward from 

 costa to M, then obsolete or slenderly connected behind M with median band r a 

 median band, composed of more or less confluent lines, in anterior half 3-4 mm. 

 broad, enclosing the large black cell-spot, in posterior half suddenly narrow, con- 

 sisting of two wavy lines 1 mm. apart, running from base of M- to hindmargin, 

 with more or less dark shading between them ; a longitudinal fuscous shade between 

 R 2 and R 3 from median band to postmedian, containing a conspicuous black line 

 along the fold ; postmedian line rather near termen, dentate, blackish in its anterior 

 part, vaguer in its posterior, deeply incurved between M 2 and SM 3 ; placed on 

 fuscous shading, which is rather broad in anterior part, narrow or obsolescent in 

 posterior, subterminal dots placed on the dentate edges of this band ; terminal 

 vein-dots strong, that at R 3 enlarged ; dots weakly continued on fringe. Hind- 

 wing not very broad, termen slightly waved, a little prominent at R 3 ; M 1 connate 

 or stalked ; concolorous with forewing ; a fuscous, black-mixed spot close to base, 

 containing a minute green dot in cell ; antemedian lines and cell-spot wanting ; 

 median double line continued, but very vague or almost obsolete except towards 

 abdominal margin, a strong outward curve discernible between the radials, blackish 

 inward dots conspicuous on M (proximal to origin of M 2 ) and SM 2 ; postmediau line 

 and subterminal dots formed nearly as on forewing, the accompanying band slight 

 and narrow, scarcely noticeable anteriorly; terminal dots as on forewing. 



Underside similarly but more feebly marked, only the cell-spot and anterior 

 part of postmedian band of forewing usually strong. 



Upper Amazon: Fonte Boa, June 1906 (type), May and September 1900; 

 Santo Antonio de Javary, May 1907 (S. M. Klages). Colombia : Allianca, below 

 S. Antonio, Rio Madeira, November — December 1907 (W. Hoffmanns). Bolivia: 

 Charaplaya, 1300 m., June 1901 (Simons); Buenavista, 750 m., August 1906 to 

 April 1907 (Steinbach). All in coll. Tring Mus. 



Belongs to the conspersa group. 



31. Racheospila promontoria dilata subsp. nov. 



cf. Both wings with the patch at middle of hindmargin somewhat darkened 

 and considerably widened, on the forewing nearly twice as broad as in name-typical 

 promontoria Warr., its proximal edge arising on M at 1 mm. nearer the base than 

 the origin of M 2 (in promontoria promontoria at the origin of M 2 ), its distal edge 

 rather nearer the termen than in promontoria promontoria. In addition, the patch 



