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oblique dark shade above it from costa and traces of a waved 
line from it to inner margin ; postmedial line double, black, 
slightly bent outwards below costa, then oblique to vein 6, 
then inwardly oblique and minutely ere nu late, some pale 
points beyond it on costa and a purplish red patch before the 
faint pale waved subterminal line with two black streaks 
before it below costa ; short streaks above and below vein 
5, and a short streak in submedian fold ; a terminal series of 
black points ; cilia chequered with blackish. Hind wing 
ochreous suffused with cupreous brown, the terminal area 
darker ; cilia ochreous. Underside of fore wing with the 
costal area ochreous and purple-red, the disk fuscous, the 
inner area whitish, the terminal area purplish red, a dark 
discoidal spot and postmedial line excurved below costa ; 
hind wing ochreous whitish with some purplish suffusion on 
apical half of costal and terminal areas and slight brown 
irroration, a blackish discoidal spot, postmedial line, excurved 
below costa then crenulate to vein 2, and terminal series of 
dark stride except towards tornus. 
Hnb. Panama, Cana Mines ( Tylecote ), 1 q type. Exp. 36 
millim. 
Genus TAVETA. 
Tareta, Fawcett, P.Z. S. 1910. p. 71S 
Type. 
syrinx, Fawc. 
Taveta eucosmia, n. sp. 
Head and tegulse red-brown irrorated with black-brown, 
the thorax greyer prominently pencilled with black-brown ; 
abdomen grey-brown, the base grey irrorated with black-brown, 
the crests on 3rd and 4th segments red-brown ; antennae black 
ringed with white ; palpi with some white in front ; legs 
dark brown mixed with grey, the tarsi black ringed with 
white ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen white irrorated 
with dark brown. Fore wing red-brown mixed with dark 
brown, the basal half below the cell whitish prominently pen- 
cilled with black-brown, the medial area below the cell and 
beyond it to vein 6 suffused with leaden grey ; an indistinct 
double maculate subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; ante- 
medial line brown, indistinct, waved, double to median 
nervure ; a small dark spot in middle of cell ; reniform with 
whitish annulus defined by dark brown, constricted at middle, 
a dark bar above it from costa and oblique waved line from 
it to inner margin ; two black postmedial lines slightly de- 
fined by white, the inner on inner side, the outer on outer, 
irregularly dentate, angled outwards below veins 7 and 4, 
then incurved ; a waved white subterminal line, oblique 
below vein 3, some white beyond it at middle of terminal 
area ; a black line before termcn, angled outwards at the 
