NEW SOUTH- AMERICAN ARCTIID^E. 



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blackish, darker on the inner margin, basal area paler; apical 

 patch pale yellow, extending to vein 3, outwardly defined by pale 

 orange, which also colours the veins traversing it ; the part filling 

 cellule 4 is half the length of the areas in 3 and 5 ; a discal zigzag- 

 crimson line from the costa at vein 6 to the middle of inner 

 margin, outwardly curved to vein 3, then directed basad to sub- 

 median, thence distad to margin on the black area, being here 

 much thickened and enclosing a yellow spot; anteriorly the teeth 

 formed in cellules 3-5 are filled in with pale orange ; some 

 reddish suffusion at the base ; a short crimson basal streak below 

 cell ; costa pale orange ; veins crimson. Hind wing dark brown, 

 also fringes ; apex produced and a short anal lobe. 



Underside of fore wing dark brown, apical patch as above ; 

 basal two-thirds of cell and a stripe below it pale yellow. Rind 

 wing with a pale -yellow subbasal spot below costa. 



Antennae brown, white anteriorly; palpi with first segment 

 white, the rest grey on outside, black on inside ; frons grey-white; 

 head pale orange ; thorax yellowish white marked with orange, 

 two black dots at base ; abdomen crimson above, white below ; 

 pectus white ; legs white, fore-legs marked with pale orange. 

 Length of fore wing 18 mm. 



Hab. North Peru, Charape River, Tabaconas, 4000 feet : A. E. 

 Pratt, 1912. 1 $ . 



5. AUTOMOL1S OCHREOG ASTER, Sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 8.) 



£ . Upperside silky-white ; underside similar with the veins 

 brownish. 



Head, tegulse, patagia, and base of abdomen silky-white ; 

 antennae with shaft white above, brown below, serrate and fasci- 

 culate ; frons with a tinge of ochreous ; an ochreous line at side 

 of eye ; abdomen pale ochreous ; legs grey-white ; palpi white, 

 ochreous on inside. 



Hind luing with 3 and 5 stalked, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 from 

 middle of cell. 



Length of fore wing 17 mm. 



Hab. Sapucay, Paraguay, July 1902, 1 £ • 



Similar to albescens Roths., but differs in neuration of hind 

 wing. 



6. AUTOMOLIS OCHREOMARGINATA, Sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 9.) 



Nearest sicilia Druce, from Mexico and Panama. 



<5 . Upperside. — Fore wing orange-yellow, the apex thinly 

 scaled with black. A narrow terminal buff margin widening 

 posteriorly. Hind wing paler yellow than fore wing, darker 

 along outer and inner margins. 



Underside as above. — Fore wing with apex and costal edge 

 narrowly black to within a quarter from base. Hind wing 

 deeper yellow on costal area. 



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