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Forewing with costa very little arched, apex moderate, terinen very gently 

 curved, moderately strongly oblique ; dark fuscous, with slight cinnamon suffusion, 

 a narrow cinnamon band proximally to the median area and a broader one distally 

 thereto, divided by a darker line, the entire aspect somewhat blurred ; the dark 

 median area is about, or almost, 3 mm. wide, almost as oblique as termen, apparently 

 tolerably straight-edged and uniform in width throughout, except at costa, where 

 the antemedian band curves base wards and the postmedian is slightly broken 

 basewards ; a black cell-dot nearer to the proximal than to the distal margin of the 

 median area ; slight indications of a cinnamon subterminal line traceable on the 

 dark distal area in certain lights ; terminal dark line extremely fine, scarcely 



noticeable ; a very fine, inconspicuous pale line at base of fringe. Hindwing 



paler, darkening very slightly towards termen and more strongly in abdominal 

 region, where there are ill-defined dark spots or beginnings of lines, and the 

 beginning of a divided cinnamon postmedian band. 



Underside glossy fuscous, the forewing almost uniform, the hindwing paler, 

 with traces of thick dark lines or narrow bands, one about the middle of the wing 

 the most noticeable. 



San Antonio, W. Colombia, 5800 ft., November 1907 (type) and December 1907 

 (M. G. Palmer), in coll. L. B. Prout. 



73. Eupithecia saphenes sp. nov. 



? , 20 mm. Palpus almost twice as long as diameter of eye, second joint rather 

 long and strong. Antenna minutely ciliated. Head and body mostly concoloroas 

 with wings ; palpus more ochreous, abdomen dorsally with some dark admixture, 

 fore and middle legs largely dark fuscous, with pale spots at the ends of the joints. 

 Wings shaped nearly as in ornea Druce {Biol. Centr.-Amer., Lep. Het. ii. 146, 

 t. liv. 29), the forewing with termen less oblique anteriorly, rather more convex, the 

 discrepancy between the size of the wings therefore still more noticeable than in 

 Druce's species. 



Forewing rather more tinged with reddish than in ornea, especially distally 

 and along costal and hindmargin ; subbasal line irregular, oblique inward, chiefly 

 noticeable as a V-shaped subcostal mark (pointing outward) and a slightly interrupted 

 line from M to hindmargin near base, thickest posteriorly ; cell-spot as in ornea ; 

 antemedian line conspicuous as a costal spot near cell-spot, angled in cell, then 

 oblique inward but very weak ; postmedian line placed and shaped nearly as in 

 tantillaria Bdv. (= pusillata Hb.), but rather less inbent behind middle, its entire 

 posterior part very weak ; subterminal line fine, distinct, not or scarcely interrupted, 

 feebly lunnlate-dentate throughout, forming a long, thickened spot near tornus ; 

 slight dark shading proximally to the subterminal, and some slight internenral 

 streaks distally, at least in anterior half of wing ; terminal dark line interrupted by 

 minute white dots at the veins ; fringe whitish (purer in a basal line), with large 



dark spots at the vein-ends. Hindwing with posterior half and termen con- 



colorous with forewing, anterior half otherwise whitish ; cell-dot small, grey ; weak 

 beginnings of one or two proximal lines at abdominal margin; a curved grey 

 postmedian line just beyond middle, becoming blacker in abdominal region, here 

 accompanied proximally by some dark irroration on the veins and distally by a 

 fine whitish line ; subterminal line obsolescent and interrupted anteriorly, distinct 

 posteriorly, between R 3 and M 2 more strongly dentate than on the forewing ; termen 

 and fringe as on forewing. 



