812 Ml. L. B. Front 



071 new 



ba«5e to tip of tail 33 mm.) ; no flap beneath ; DC extremely 

 oblique, R^ arising very near R'"^ ; brown-black, becoming 

 lighter towards abrlominal margin ; the band extremely 

 narrow at costa, yellowish white to R^, then i'ed-orange, 

 becoming redder, posteriorly slightly irrorated with black, 

 gradually widening, but scarcely 3 mm. wide before com- 

 mencement of tail, in which it again tapers, ending in a 

 point 6 mm. before extremity ; distal part o£ abdominal 

 margin and proximal part of tail behind the red band 

 blackish, containing four yellow-white, anteriorly red-edged 

 spots ; end of tail and its anterior fringe white. 



Fore wing beneath similar to those oi juliaj Dbld., etc. 

 Hind wing beneath with the ground-colour redder than in 

 that species and almost uniform in tone, the pale band 

 almost uniform in width (circ. 1*5 mm.) from costal maroiu 

 to the acute angle near tornus, then narrower. 



Ecuador : Santa Inez [R. Haensch)^ type in coll. Deutsch. 

 Ent. Mus., received through W. Meuburger ; Balzapamba, 

 a (^ in coll. Tring Mus. ; Puramba, a ? in the latter 

 collection, similar but with rather shorter tail. 



Possibly a subspecies of staudingeri^ Snell. (Tijd. Ent. 

 xxi. p. 150, t. viii. figs. 14-16), with the band of fore wing 

 slightly narrower, the red of hind wing much more restricted^, 

 the black betweea it and abdominal margin more extended, 

 black streak on tail broader,. white of tail more extended. 

 Snellen's locality " Peru,'' suggested with a query, was 

 certainly erroneous ; like his Htterusia dividata, received 

 from the same source, it will probably have been from 

 Chiriqui (c/r. Druce, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Lep.Het.ii. p. 180). 

 But the tail seems a little longer than in staudingeri, and a 

 form which I believe to be the Colombia race thereof has 

 the bands hroad, that of hind wing more orange than in 

 liaensclii. 



9. Gymnoscelis inexpressa, sp. n. 

 $ . — 20 mm. 



Face with rather strong cone. Palpus almost 2, the scales 

 forming projecting tufts, predominantly blackish. Hejid 

 and body concolorous with wings, or slightly more whitish 

 beneath ; abdomen rather elongate, the crests (on somites 

 2-7) all well developed, rather pale. 



Fore wing slightly more elongate than in the type-species 

 {pumilata, Hb.) ; areole long, SC^ arising beyond two-thirds 

 of it, anastomosing fairly strongly with C, R^ about connate; 

 almost uniform fawn-colour, the veins dotted here and 

 there with black ; most of the waved lines almost obsolete, 



