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discal fold and below vein 3 ; a whitish line at base of cilia. 
Hind wing purple-grey tinged with brown and slightly irrorated 
with blackish ; a blackish discoidal striga ; postmedial line 
deep red-brown, rather diffused on inner side and defined on 
outer side by white, oblique ; a whitish line at base of cilia. 
Underside purplish grey suffused with brown and irrorated 
with dark brown ; fore wing with white discoidal lunule 
defined by black and indistinct dark postmedial line oblique 
to below vein 7, then inwardly oblique ; hind wing with 
black discoidal striga and indistinct diffused dark postmedial 
line. 
Hab. Peru, Rio Ucajuile, Contamino, 1 <$. Exp. 26 
millim. 
q. Head and tegulse deep chocolate-brown slightly irrorated 
with white, the frontal tuft edged by white, the antennae 
with white points on the shaft towards base ; palpi irrorated 
with some white scales and white at tips ; thorax ochreous 
suffused with red-brown ; abdomen deep chocolate-brown ; 
legs dark red -brown slightly irrorated with whitish, the tarsi 
black-brown ringed with white. Fore wing deep chocolate- 
brown tinged with leaden grey, the costal area ochreous 
tinged with red-brown from the postmedial line below vein 7 
to inner margin near base, its lower edge sinuous and excurved 
just beyond lower angle of cell, the costa more suffused with 
red-brown between the lines ; a dark brown subbasal striga 
from costa ; antemedial line dark brown, slightly angled 
outwards at subcostal nervure, bent outwards at median 
nervure, then oblique and defining the ochreous area ; a 
minute black spot in middle of cell and minute white discoidal 
lunule defined by red-brown ; three dark brown bars from 
medial part of costa and three faint waved lines from cell to 
inner margin ; postmedial line with dark brown striga from 
costa, then pale red to below vein 7, then dark brown, bent 
outwards below costa, then slightly waved to below vein 7, 
then incurved and slightly sinuous, some white points with 
dark brown between them beyond it on costa ; subterminal 
line reddish ochreous, forming small spots defined on each 
side by dark brown above and below vein 6, almost obsolete 
between veins 5 and 3, then incurved ; a slight waved black 
terminal line forming points at the interspaces and a fine 
rather punctiform ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing 
chocolate-brown with a faint purplish tinge ; postmedial line 
Genus SELENIS. 
Selenis. Guen. Noct. iii. p. 361 (1852) 
Type. 
suero, Cram. 
Selenis projiciens, n. sp. 
