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a terminal series of slight dark spots. Underside with the 
inner areas whitish ; fore wing with dark spots in middle 
of cell and on discocellulars, postmedial line brown, oblique 
to vein 7 then inwardly oblique with faint whitish spots 
and diffused brown beyond it to vein 2, a diffused brown 
subterminal line ; hin d wing with brown discoidal bar, post- 
medial line brown, slightly waved, with faint whitish spots 
and brown suffusion beyond it except on inner area. 
Hob. Brazil, Amazons, Para ( Goeldi ), 1 $ type. Exp. 
44 mil lim . 
Genus CRYPTOCHROSTIS. Type . 
Cryptochrostris, Hiibn. Verz. p. 297 (1827) hyphenoe, Stoll. 
Mandela, Walk. Joura. Linn. Soc.,Zool. ix. p. 192 (1867) . crocea, Walk. 
Cryptochrostis fulveola, n. sp. 
$. Head and tegulte pale red-brown mixed with white ; 
palpi rufous irrorated with dark brown and with some white 
in front ; thorax and abdomen fulvous, the latter with 
whitish segmental lines ; pectus, legs and ventral surface 
of abdomen white, the legs slightly irrorated with brown and 
the fore tibiae suffused with fulvous. Fore wing fulvous 
slightly irrorated with dark brown, the costal area purplish 
white irrorated with black-brown to beyond middle ; ante- 
medial line with oblique blackish bar from costa, then almost 
obsolete and erect ; medial line with oblique blackish bar 
from costa, then faint, angled outwards at discal fold, then 
oblique ; a blackish point at lower angle of cell ; postmedial 
line with oblique blackish bar from costa, then faint, excurved 
to vein 4, then incurved ; the postmedial part of costa with 
some white points with black between them ; small sub- 
terminal blackish spots with white centres above and below 
vein 7, then faint fuscous and white points and a whitish bar 
defined on each side by black at inner margin ; a terminal 
series of blackish striae ; cilia with blackish line through 
them, the tips chequered blackish and white above and 
below middle. Hind wing fulvous ; a sinuous white discoidal 
bar with a faint brown line from it to inner margin ; post- 
medial line faint, brown, curved and waved ; a subterminal 
series of slight black points ; a fine black terminal line ; 
cilia with a black line through them, the tips chequered white 
and blackish. Underside of fore wing with the costal and 
inner areas to beyond middle and the cell white irrorated 
with brown, the rest of wing rufous to vein 3 and fiery-red 
below that, striated with blackish, a black point in middle 
of cell and discoidal striga, a medial line below the cell, 
postmedial line with oblique black striga from costa, fuscous 
and excurved between veins 6 and 3, then incurved small 
subterminal black spots above and below vein 7 and a bar at 
