TJEPHRINOPS. — MARCIPA. 
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dorsally suffused with brown. Fore wing white tinged with 
rufous and slightly irrorated with red-brown to the post- 
medial line ; an antemedial and two medial conical chocolate- 
brown spots on costa, the antemedial spot connected by a 
striga across the cell with an oblique chocolate-brown band 
slightly defined by white from cell to inner margin, its inner 
edge incurved in submedian interspace and its outer edge 
strongly excurved above vein 1 ; a small round red-brown 
spot in middle of cell ; postmedial line chocolate-brown 
defined on inner side by white and with a broad band of 
chocolate-brown suffusion beyond it, oblique, slightly sinuous 
to beyond upper angle of cell, where it gives off a slight erect 
striga on its inner side, slightly incurved below vein 4, a 
minute chocolate-brown spot before it on costa and some 
white points beyond it ; subterminal line rather diffused, 
brown and with slight brown irroration beyond it, angled 
inwards at vein 6 and outwards at vein 4, then waved ; a 
terminal series of black-brown striae ; cilia suffused with red- 
brown, deep chocolate-brown from vein 6 to the angle at 
vein 4 and with chocolate-brown marks towards apex and at 
veins 3 and 2. Hind wing whitish tinged with red-brown, 
the terminal area suffused with red-brown except towards 
tornus ; a slight brown discoidal striga and a terminal series 
of deep chocolate-brown striae except towards tornus ; cilia 
white tinged with rufous. Underside of fore wing whitish 
suffused with rufous except on inner and terminal areas, 
the costa suffused with red-brown towards base and with two 
diffused rufous bars from middle ; hind wing white irrorated 
with red-brown especially on costal area, a small black-brown 
spot on upper discocellular and oblique postmedial series of 
black-brown points. 
Hob. Brazil, Espiritu Santo, 1 $ type. Exp. 32 millim. 
Genas MARCIPA. 
Marcipa, Walk. iv. 807 (1855) 
Birtha, Walk, xxxiii. 976 (1865) 
Type. 
inscripta, Walk. 
insulata, Walk. 
Marcipa magniplaga, n. sp. 
$. Head, tegulae, and a band behind them dark red-brown ; 
the rest of thorax and abdomen ochreous white ; fore and 
mid legs tinged with brown. Fore wing ochreous white 
faintly tinged with rufous and irrorated with a few dark 
red-brown scales ; the costal edge chocolate-brown towards 
base ; an oblique chocolate-brown antemedial striga from 
costa ; a large conical very dark chocolate-brown patch 
on medial area extending from middle of cell to inner margin ; 
a minute round black-brown spot in middle of cell ; reniform 
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