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L. albinuda Sm. Dark ash-grey, dusted with a brownish black; the single indistinct transverse lines 
are faded; the upper maculae are small, slightly darker, the median shade is only distinct towards the costal 
margin, the undulate line is proximally shaded with dark. Hindwing deep blackish-brown, with a darker, distally 
lighter yellowish median shade and a large discal spot; fringes light. Expanse of wings: 32 to 33 mm. Labrador. 
L. phoca Mschlr. (14d). Forewing dull brown, thickly strewn with grey; the transverse lines are only 
traceable, the posterior line is somewhat dentate; the upper maculae are small faded grey spots with darker spots 
between them. Hindwing brownish-grey. Labrador, Alberta. 
L. proniulsa Morr. (= infuscata Sm.) (13 k, 14 d) has ochreous-brownish forewings thickly strewn 
with a darker colour, with darker undulate or dentate transverse lines and a faded median shade without maculae; 
the undulate line is proximally shaded with a darker colour, the fringes ochreous-yellow speckled with blackish- 
brown. Hindwing ochreous-brownish, in the marginal area darkened. Colorado. 
L. luteola Sm. is in the exterior very similar to the following uniform.is (14 d). more slender with 
a more intense marking, the two transverse lines on the sides facing each other shaded with dark, which is 
not the case in uniform.is. British Columbia. 
L. uniformis Sm. (14 d) is very much like luteola , of a duller brown, dusted with a greenish grey, with 
the same darker transverse lines, but the posterior line not dentate but only undulate, without a distinct median 
shade, the maculae quite indistinctly marked brown, with somewhat darker brown small spots between them. 
Hindwing greyish-brown with yellowish fringes. Canada, Colorado. 
L. carniinea Dogn. (14 b). This species having been described as a N ephelodes, asAvell as the follow¬ 
ing fit well to Lasiestra in their anatomical marks, although they seem not to belong to it at all owing to their 
exterior; the eyes surrounded by long black cilia, the hairy cover of the body without any essential formation 
of tufts etc. are not different. Head and collar bright ferruginous yellow; forewing flesh-coloured reddish 
brown, in the discal area densely dusted with red-brown, in the basal and subterminal areas and costally strewn 
with a bluish white; anterior transverse line double black, filled up with a bluish white, the posterior line brown¬ 
ish, dentate, likewise double and its filling strewn with a bluish white. Maculae large, round, finely encircled 
with black, filled up with a greenish loam-colour, in the upper halves strewn with a violettish white, the reniform 
macula with a concentric, olive-blackish ring; from it a black faded median line runs to the proximal margin; 
undulate line of brownish crescentiform streaks defined towards the more olive-brownish marginal area. Fringes 
purple-pink like the hindwing, the proximal-marginal part of which is shaded with a brownish black. This 
magnificent species originates from Mt. Socorro (Colombian Western Cordilleras), from an altitude of 3500 m, 
taken by Fassl. 
L. scurrilis sp. n. (14 cl) is a magnificent, easily recognizable insect: on the forewing olive-green, 
with 3 maculae filled up with a deep blackish brown, fine, single, black transverse stripes being on the averted 
sides edged with a greenish azure colour, the same are one spot each between the upper maculae, at the apex 
of the coniform macula, fine strewing on the veins in the discal area, as well as high marginal lunae forming 
the distal border of the jet-black undulate line. Hindwing blackish-grey, margin and fringes deep flesh-coloured. 
Anal tuft ferruginous yellow. Described according to 1 from Bolivia (Cuesta de Cillutincara). 
L. ciocolatina sp. n. (14 d). Forewing with a sharp apex, chestnut-brown, intensely strewn with a 
lilac and bluish white, so that only the marginal area being obliquely cut off by an apical patch with lilac- 
white strewing remains of a pure brown. The fine brown double transverse lines are not dentate, the maculae 
in concentric rings, with pupils of a purer brown, the ring-macula oval, oblique; from the lower proximal end 
of the reniform macula a distally faded, brown median shade extends obliquely to the centre of the proximal 
margin; no undulate line; in the terminal area the veins are somewhat dusted with lilac-whitish; fringes purple- 
grey. Hindwing yellowish-white, at the costal and distal margins dusted with a yellowish brown. Several 
from Mt. Tolima, at an altitude of 4000 m (Colombian Central Cordilleras), by Fassl. 
L. plumbifusa sp. n. (14 d) is marked almost the same as ciocolatina, but much darker blackish- 
brown with broader wings without the pointed apex, strewn with a lilac grey of an intense leaden reflection, 
without the light apical patch; the reniform macula is narrower, oblong-oval, not reniform, but very indistinctly 
surrounded by a concentric ring, the coniform macula distinctly present; the posterior transverse line is not so 
oblique in its course and therefore ends nearer at the anal angle; an indistinct undulate line is present and parti¬ 
cularly towards the anal angle spotted somewhat ferruginous-yellowish. Hindwing blackish-brown, fringes 
distally whitish. Several couples from Bolivia (Cuesta de Cillutincara). 
L. consectatrix sp. n. (14 e) very much resembles plumbifusa, but it has still broader and obtuser' 
wings of a darker colour, more purple black with a bronze lustre, strewn with coarse violet scales of a leaden 
reflection, particularly also in the terminal area which remains red-brown in plumbifusa; maculae still smaller, 
the ring-macula is a plain, small circle; the posterior transverse line is more curved and bends very much towards 
albinuda. 
■phoca. 
■proniulsa. 
hdeola. 
uniformis. 
carniinea. 
scurrilis. 
ciocolatina. 
plumbifusa. 
consectatrix. 
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