30(5 • 
XOCTU I ILK. 
with white ; abdomen red-brown with some whitish irroration ; 
pectus, fore legs and ventral surface of abdomen white 
irrorated with red-brown, the fore tarsi whitish, the mid 
and hind legs red-brown, the tibiae slightly irrorated with 
whitish. Fore wing deep red- brown ; some whitish at base 
of inner margin ; antemedial line brown defined on inner side 
by grey, waved ; orbicular a small round grey spot defined 
by brown ; reniform with grey annulus defined by brown, 
large, figure-of-eight -shaped ; postmedial line brown defined 
on outer side by grey-wliite, angled outwards at vein 6, then 
dentate, incurved below vein 4, some ochreous points beyond 
it' on costa ; a subterminal series of whitish striae defined 
on inner side by slight dentate dark marks ; a fine waved 
dark terminal line ; cilia with slight ochreous spots at base 
towards apex. Hind wing deep red-brown; the base whitish; 
a round grey spot at lower angle of cell, its centre suffused 
with brown ; postmedial line brown defined on outer side 
by grey- white, excurved beyond the cell ; a subterminal 
series of grey-white striae defined on inner side by slight dark 
brown marks ; a fine waved dark terminal line. Underside 
bright red-brown ; fore wing with the orbicular white, the 
reniform with its annulus represented by minute white spots 
and extending to vein 2, the postmedial line defined on outer 
side by white, the subterminal striae white ; hind wing with 
large figure-of-eight-shaped discoidal mark with some brown 
in centre defined by white spots, the postmedial line defined 
on outer side by white, the subterminal striae white. 
$. Head, thorax, and wings bright chestnut-red ; fore 
wing with the orbicular and reniform fulvous yellow, the latter 
with brown points in upper and lower parts ; hind wing with 
the centre of the discoidal spot tinged with yellow and 
with slight brown mark near its inner edge ; underside more 
fulvous red, the stigmata of fore wing fulvous yellow, of 
hind wing white. 
Hnb. Venezuela, 1 $ ; Peru, Yahuarmayo, 1 type. 
Exp. 32 millim. 
Oxidercia sciogramma, n. sp. 
Head and thorax bright red-brown ; antennae black- 
brown with white points on the shaft in front towards base ; 
frontal tuft white at sides ; palpi with the extremity of the 
2nd joint white, the 3rd white irrorated with dark brown ; 
abdomen bright red-brown mixed with whitish ; fore tibia? 
black mixed with white, the fore tarsi whitish ; ventral 
surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing bright chestnut- 
brown tinged with violaceous and slightly irrorated with dark 
brown, the costal edge dark brown ; antemedial line dark 
brown, incurved in the cell and excurved in submedian 
