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of black clots at the medians only, otherwise unmarked ; fringe white, almost or 

 quite unmarked. 



Underside quite as in laodice Th.-Mieg., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1894, p. 53 

 (ljugurtharia Gnen.), the projections of postmedian line behind R 3 rather strong. 



Santo Domingo, Carabaya, Peru, 6000 ft., October (dry season). Type in coll. 

 L. B. Pront. 



M. Dognin possesses an example from the same locality. Smaller than laodice, 

 with shorter antennal ciliation, clearer white hindwing, no red shade in distal area, 

 etc. Larger than heteroptila Warr. {Nov. Zool. viii. 463), also differing from this 

 in the clear white hindwing, absence of red on forewing, different fringes, etc. 



58. Hammaptera subtersignata sp. nov. 



S , 36-37 mm. Akin to laodice Th.-Mieg., distinguished as follows : 

 Antennal ciliation more minute (about oue-foarth diameter of shaft). Wings 

 slightly shorter aud broader, with about the coloration of crocaria Schaus (Tr. 

 Amer. Ent. Soc. xxvii. 269), the hindwing therefore with much more smoky-brown 

 suffusion than in laodice. Forewing with median band broader, its proximal edge 

 rather less concave, its distal scarcely concave between the posterior lobe and hind- 

 margin ; the narrow pale band beyond white in its proximal half, olivaceous in its 

 distal. Underside more sharply marked than in laodice, the postmedian line of 

 both wings projecting more acutely in middle ; the distal shades blacker, especially 

 in anterior half, where that of the hindwing is broader than in laodice ; the white 

 tornal part of forewing, on the other hand, more extended. 



El Rosario, Rio Pastaza, E. Ecuador, 4900 ft., January 1910, type and another 

 in coll. L. B. Prout. Also from Pozuzo and Huancabamba, N.E. Peru. 



59. Hammaptera elaeoptera sp. nov. 



S, 32-34 mm. Head olivaceous ; palpus short ; antennal ciliation minute. 

 Thorax olive-green above, pale beneath ; metathoracic tuft glossy, blackish. 

 Abdomen above olivaceous, with irregular, partly confluent, paired black spots 

 at the ends of the segments and narrow, elongate, glossy blackish ones at the 

 beginnings, especially of the third and fourth. Fore and middle legs mostly 

 dark, with pale spots at the ends of the joints. 



Forewing rather broad ; olive-green, without the usual white lines at the 

 margins of the central area ; lines dark fuscous, markedly lunulate-dentate ; a sub- 

 basal group of four, in places confluent ; two ill-defined midway between these and 

 the central area, with some dark, slightly reddish shading or blotches between them 

 in cell and snbmedian area ; central area almost 5 mm. wide at costa, 3-5 mm. at 

 hindmargin, its boundary-lines distinct, several other lines fairly strong anteriorly 

 aud at hindmargin, otherwise weak, some of them irregularly confluent about the 

 black cell-dot and here enclosing some reddish shading, the median area otherwise 

 not darkened ; postmedian line with the usual inward curve between the radials, 

 the double lobe between R 3 and M 2 rather weak ; a faint line close to and parallel 

 with the postmedian distally, a strong one farther out ; subtermiual line rather 

 weak (pale olivaceous, not white), with some blackish shading proximally and 

 distally at costa and (forming a pair of spots proximally, a pair of wedges distally) 

 between the radials, a single wedge distally between R 3 and M 1 and a strong, 

 irregular shade proximally from M 1 to tornus, constricted at M 2 ; pairs of elongate 



