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2018/;. Paranerita orbifer n. sp. (Lep. PhaL, PI. 45./. 3) 



? . Head yellow ; antennae red-brown except at base ; Irons red-brown with 

 white bar below ; palpi yellow, crimson at tips ; thorax red-brown ; pectus and 

 legs yellow, the fore tibiae and femora tinged with crimson in front ; abdomen 



crimson, the extremity and ventral snrface yellowish white. Forewing with the 



basal and inner areas purplish red-brown, extending on costa to before middle, 

 where there is some scarlet beyond it, then obliquely curved and sinuous to termen 

 above tornus ; the rest of wing pale yellow, with a large round purplish red-brown 

 subapical patch from below costa to below vein 5, some scarlet above it on costa. 



Hindwing yellow, the terminal area purplish red-brown from vein 3 to tornus. 



Underside of forewing with the subapical patch extending to costa ; hindwing 

 wholly yellow. 



Hab. Colombia, Ohoko Prov., Condoto (Spurrell), 1 ? type. Exp. 28 mill. 



1544/. Neritos discophora n. sp. {Lep. Phal., PL 45. / 9) 



Hindwing of male with the costa lobed to about three-fourths of wing ; fore- 

 wing with veins 10-11 stalked, an elongate fovea below the cell ; antennae 

 pectinate. 



Head, tegulae and shoulders orange, the antennae, except at base, and 

 thorax grey-brown ; palpi black at tips ; abdomen orange, the ventral surface 



ochreous-yellow. Forewing pale grey-brown, the veins streaked with fuscous 



brown ; a rather oblique elliptical white patch beyond the cell between veins 6 



and 3. Hindwing grey-brown with a rather ill-defined white patch in, below and 



beyond end of cell, the inner area whitish in male. Underside of forewing darker 

 grey-brown, except the white patch ; hindwing with the basal and inner areas 

 white. 



Hab. Peru, Carabaya, R. Huacamayo, La Union (Ockenden), 2 cJc?, 1 ¥ type. 

 Exp. 40 mill. 



1255 e. Automolis monostidza n. sp. {Lep. PhaL, PI. 46./ 2) 



$ . Head and thorax white with some yellow and crimson scales especially on 

 thorax, the tips of tegulae, upper edge of patagia at middle and outer edge towards 

 extremity crimson ; the mesothorax with pair of small black spots ; antennae 

 fuscous brown except at base ; frons with brown bar above ; palpi grej'-brown 

 except basal joint, the second joint black above ; pectus white, crimson in front 

 and below the wings ; legs grey-brown in front, the tibiae black at extremities, the 

 fore coxae with crimson patches ; abdomen crimson with white segmental lines, the 



extremity and ventral surface white. Foreiving yellow-buff, the basal and costal 



areas and inner margin white ; some crimson at base of inner margin ; the inter- 

 spaces of basal area with grey-black streaks, reduced to subbasal spots above and 

 below vein 1 and the two streaks in the cell longer ; an incurved medial band 

 formed by grey-black streaks below costa, bars on each side of the discocellulars 

 and patches below the cell divided by white streaks on the veins, the band produced 

 at costa and defined on each side by white below the cell ; a small rather elongate 

 grey-black subterminal spot defined on inner side by white above vein 5; the 



termen aud cilia white. Hindwing white with a streak of crimson suffusion in 



submedian interspace. Underside white ; forewing with the band showing faintly 

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