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6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 
the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about 
half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully 
developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 
8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Hypocalpopis varians, n. sp. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with yellow 
and irrorated with brown. Fore wing white irrorated and 
striated with brown ; antemedial line brown, oblique from 
costa to submedian fold, then inwardly oblique ; a small 
dark brown spot in the cell towards extremity with some 
white scales on it ; reniform slightly defined by brown, 
constricted at middle ; postmedial line brown, oblique to 
vein 6 where it is acutely angled outwards and met by an 
oblique brown streak from apex, then oblique to middle of 
inner margin ; some white points with brown between them 
on costa towards apex ; a crenulate brown subterminal line 
from the oblique streak to inner margin ; a waved red-brown 
terminal line. Hind wing white with a faint yellow tinge. 
Underside white, the costal area of fore wing tinged with 
red-brown. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing yellower. 
Ab. 2. Fore wing more strongly irrorated with brown ; 
hind wing yellower. 
Hab. Argentina, La Rioja ( Giacometti ), 1 <^type, Tucuman, 
3 $. Exp. 26-30 millim. 
Genus PELOBESIS, nov. 
Type, P. viridifera. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 
2nd joint reaching to about vertex of head, moderately 
scaled in front and slightly fringed with hair behind towards 
extremity ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes 
large, round ; antennae of female ciliated ; thorax clothed 
almost entirely with scales, the prothorax with long oblique 
flattened crest, the metathorax with depressed crest ; tibiae 
slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at 
base only. Fore wing with the apex produced and acute, 
the termen excurved at middle, then crenulate to tornus ; 
veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from well below 
upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing 
with the cell about half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 shortly 
stalked ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from 
upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
