268 NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAB XXIII. 1916. 



Hindwing semihyaline pale liver-brown irrorated with dark brown specks, 

 more densely on outer half of wings. 



Length of forewing : 26 mm. Expanse : 565 mm. 



Hab. Monte Tolima, 3200 metres = 10,400 ft., Colombia, January 1910 (A. H. 



Fassl.) 



16. Opharus colombiana spec. nov. . 



? . Palpi dark brown ; antennae and head wood-brown ; thorax wood-brown 

 with three lateral black dots ; abdomen yellow with transverse black bands, basal 

 half clothed with long paler wood-brown hairs. 



Forewing wood-brown, veins darker brown ; a shadowy darker discocellular bar. 



Hindwing paler semihyaline wood-brown. 



Length of forewing : 29 mm. Expanse : 64 ram. 



Hab. Canon de Tolima, 1700 metres = 5500 ft., Colombia, March 1910 (A. H. 

 Fassl). 



17. Opharus aureopuncta spec. nov. 



$ . Antennae, head, and thorax dark mummy-brown ; palpi with pale yellow 

 patches ; head and thorax mixed with a few yellow hairs ; abdomen, basal two- 

 thirds mummy brown, apical third crimson with three dorsal black dots. 



Foreiving dark mummy-brown densely sprinkled with pale yellow dots ; along 

 costa five larger spots, two subterminal rows of spots, an irregularly scattered 

 number of discal spots, and the fringe-chequers also pale yellow. 



Hindwing : basal two-thirds semihyaline greyish buff, with a large arrow- 

 shaped mummy-brown patch under costa ; outer third mummy-brown dotted with 

 minute pale yellow dots and one larger dot above vein 5 ; abdominal area to 

 vein 2 clothed with long pale pink hairs among which are a few grey ones. A 

 second S has the larger pale yellow spots in forewing much reduced in size and 

 number. 



Length of forewing : 26 mm. Expanse : 58 mm. 



Hab. Monte Tolima, 2700 metres = 8800 ft., Colombia, February 1910 (A. H. 

 Fassl). 



18. Opharus irregularis spec nov. 



? . Palpi orange ; a black streak on outside of second, and a black spot on 

 third segment; antennae amber-brown ; head cream-colour, frons mixed with a 

 few black hairs, vertex with black spot ; thorax cream-colour, three washed-out 

 yellowish brown smears on patagia ; abdomen cream-colour, basal two-thirds 

 clothed with long brownish cream hairs. 



Foreiving gallstone yellowish brown, divided into eleven transverse highly 

 irregular and serpentine bands by five transverse bands of cream-colour ; the six 

 resulting gallstone yellowish brown bands are in places suffused with darker, more 

 <iiver-brown. 



Hindwing : basal two-thirds semihyaline cream-white, outer third dirty pale 

 wood-grey, with a semihyaline subtermiual line ; abdominal area to vein 2 clothed 

 with long rough cream-coloured hair. 



Length of forewing : 32 mm. Expanse: 71mm. 



Hab. Monte Tolima, 3200 metres = 10,400 ft., February 1910, Colombia (A. 

 H. Fassl). 



