PL E ON 0T ROC T A. — O RO S C OP A . 
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white to beyond middle, a creamy white patch at middle of 
terminal area, a blackish spot in middle of cell, then oblique 
series of blackish spots on medial area not extending to costal 
area, and a maculate creamy white subterminal line defined 
on each side by rather maculate blackish lines ; hind wing 
creamy white irrorated with black, some black marks at base, 
a wedge-shaped spot in middle of a creamy white discoidal 
lunule defined by black, medial and postmedial oblique 
series of small black spots, the subterminal line replaced by 
a dark red-brown band with traces of a creamy-white line 
near its inner edge and V-shaped black spots beyond it 
between veins 5 and 2. 
Hab. Peru, Huancabamba, 1 $ type. Exp. 44 millim. 
Genus OROSCOPA. 
Type. 
Oroscopa, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am.. Het. i. p. 486 (1891) .. concha, Druce. 
Oroscopa variegata, n. sp. 
o. Head, thorax, and basal segment of abdomen white 
tinged with red-brown and mixed with some dark brown ; 
the vertex of head with black-brown bar and two points 
behind, the tegulse with black-brown lines at base and middle, 
the rest of abdomen black-brown mixed with some red-brown 
and with bluish white subdorsal streaks ; antennae ringed 
with dark brown ; palpi whitish blotched and striated with 
red-brown ; pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdomen 
whitish tinged with red-brown, the femora and tibiae with 
dark brown, the abdomen with black-brown sublateral streaks 
on medial segments and the extremity black-brown. Fore 
wing whitish tinged with red-brown and striated with black- 
brown ; an antemedial dark chocolate-brown spot angled 
outwards below costa, then an oblique series of small spots 
to vein 1 ; a diffused dark red-brown mark in end of cell, 
slight black -brown discoidal lunule with minute white spot 
on its outer side, oblique V-shaped mark from costa above 
end of cell, then a maculate dark band excurved beyond the 
cell, then incurved to below end of cell and ending at vein 1 ; 
postmedial line indistinct, whitish, minutely waved, defined 
on inner side by a small black-brown spot at costa, then by 
minute spots, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the terminal 
area wfith a semicircular patch of chocolate-brown suffusion 
from below apex to vein 4 ; an incompletely double sub- 
terminal series of minute chocolate-brown spots, oblique below 
vein 3 ; a terminal series of small chocolate-brown lunules ; 
cilia chocolate-brown at tips. Hind wing whitish, suffused 
and thickly striated with dark red-brown except at base ; 
two minute subbasal chocolate-brown spots beloAv the cell ; 
