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transverse black and cinnamon lines; anal angle cinnamon. Forewing below drab, the inner margin white. 
Hindwing below drab; the termen paler; a black and white spot on discocellular; first line buffy brown, second 
line fuscous, lunular, the lines connected by a fuscous black spot near inner margin with some white scaling 
above and below it. Expanse: 24 mm. Passa Quatro, Minas, Brazil. 
Q. ragna sp.nov. (89 h). Male: Body light drab; vertex whitish; frons, collar in front and abdomen ragna. 
dorsally sayal brown. Forewing greyish avellaneous, the lines and discocellular spots cinnamon drab; antemedial 
and medial lines out-curved, wavy; postmedial line well outbent and curved, inbent from vein 4, faintly sinuous; 
subterminal line benzo-brown, lunular, outwardly edged with whitish scales, followed from costa to vein 6, 
and from vein 4 to inner margin by some pinkish cinnamon shading; some drab and cinnamon shading between 
veins 4 and 6; cilia pinkish cinnamon. Hindwing light drab on interspaces, the veins and termen narrowly 
vinaceous cinnamon; lines very faint, the subterminal distally edged with white near inner margin. Forewing 
below vinaceous cinnamon dark shaded at apex, the inner margin whitish. Hindwing below dull cinnamon buff; 
a black and white spot on discocellular; lines fine, distinct, wavily dentate connected by a verona brown patch 
near inner margin, with white scaling above postmedial and outwardly on subterminal. Female: Thorax light 
drab. Abdomen avellaneous. Fore wing: base and space between antemedial and medial lines dull cinnamon 
drab, the two lines slightly darker, parallel angled on median between veins 2 and 3, and inbent; space to 
postmedial prominently ecru drab; dark points on discocellular; postmedial line hair brown, outangled at vein 
4 and inbent; subterminal hair brown outwardly slightly edged with pale drab grey, incurved, remote 
from origin of postmedial, the triangular space from costa to vein 4 between the lines buffy brown; below vein 4 
the subterminal lunular, the space between the lines to inner margin drab; subterminal followed from costa 
by sudan brown, broadly on costa, then diminishing; termen between apex and vein 4 pale drab grey. Hindwing 
as in male, but duller. Forewing below drab with faint traces of outer lines. Hindwing below light cinnamon 
drab, the lines fuscous, distinct; a black streak with a few white scales on discocellular. Expanse: Male 28 mm; 
female 31 mm. Passa Quatro, Minas, Brazil. Type in the Berlin Museum. 
Q. medinara sp. nov. (89 h). Male: The wings above like lapana. Forewing below also similar. Hindwing medinara. 
below differs in having a broad white line edged with fuscous on discocellular. Expanse: 25 mm. Medina, 
Colombia. Type in U. S. Nat. Museum. 
Q. punctilinea Dogn. (89 h). Male: Head light ochraceous buff. Collar and tegulae ochraceous tawny, punciilinca. 
Thorax drab. Abdomen russet, the basal segment liver brown. Forewing: space below cell to terminal points 
drab mottled with cinnamon rufous forming lines and a broad medial band separated by some buffish scaling; 
costa with basal third ochraceous buff, medial third light buff, apical third partly light drab; cell cinnamon 
rufous; a buff line on discocellular with fuscous point at lower angle; space from cell to postmedial light greyish 
olive; space between veins 3 and 4 to subterminal pale violet plumbeous, also between 2 and 3 from cell to 
postmedial; postmedial, quadrate spot, and outer edging of subterminal fuscous, the enclosed space above 
vein 6 between lines fuscous irrorated with pale violet plumbeous; postmedial outbent to vein 4 fuscous, from 
vein 3 to inner margin inbent; postmedial slightly incurved from costa to vein 6 lilac grey then to vein 4 naples 
yellow followed by a broad naples-yellow shade not reaching termen; from vein 3 to inner margin with cream 
colour streaks on veins; termen between 4 and 7 narrowly lilac grey, below vein 4 hair brown; cilia mostly 
fuscous with a whitish line at base. Hindwing chiefly deep purplish grey, the inner margin mottled with 
fuscous and sudan brown (Type), sometimes with morocco red; lines rather faint, the postmedial diffuse black, 
the subterminal defined by some pale scaling. Fore wing below hair brown, inner margin with white hairs; 
lines between 4 and 7 defined, followed by the same colours as above. Hindwing below benzo-brown; a well 
marked white spot on discocellular; a broad cream colour streak medially near inner margin; the lines faint, 
the subterminal defined by faint white scaling, and a cream colour spot near inner margin. Expanse: 33 mm. 
Rio Songo, Bolivia. 
Sect. IV. Wings broader, the forewing more deeply excised below apex. 
Q. veca Drc. (89 h). Male: Head cinnamon. Thorax vinaceous drab. Abdomen cinnamon with dark veca. 
greyish brown dorsal crests. Forewing nearest vinaceous fawn tinged with pale purplish brown, the lines snuff 
brown; antemedial outangled on median inwardly edged with whitish and some brown basad; medial line 
fuscous on costa and discocellular, then paler, inbent; postmedial outcurved to a small fuscous spot between 
veins 4 and 6; subterminal pinkish buff, sinuous to vein 4, outwardly followed below costa by some Hay’s 
russet, below vein 4 both lines sinuous to inner margin; a curved shade on termen from vein 3 to tornus. Hind¬ 
wing cinnamon rufous; inner margin mottled with fuscous, at angle with Hay’s russet; lines very faint, the 
subterminal with some white near inner margin. Wings below largely cinnamon rufous. Forewing with inner 
margin buffish. Hindwing: a black and white streak on discocellular; the lines faint, becoming fuscous and 
downbent near inner margin with some whitish scaling. Female: Fore wing light cinnamon drab; inner lines 
very faint; a dark line on discocellular; postmedial outcurved to vein 4 then lunular; subterminal pinkish buff; 
straighter than in the male, outwardly edged with fuscous to vein 4, then lunular, parallel with postmedial. 
Forewing below drab; hindwing below cinnamon rufous; the lines and discal spot as in male. Expanse: Male 
26 mm; female 38 mm. Panama; Costa Rica. 
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