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hairs along vein 12 from base to near extremity, beneath this a 
moderately broad naked purple-tinged area. Hindwings with long 
ochreous-whitish expansible hairpencil from base of costa lying 
beneath forewings. 
Colombia, Paso del Quindiu, 11,500 feet; 1 ex. 
Uro&us spumescens, n. sp. 
3 28-30 mm. Head, palpi, thorax dark blue-grey. Geni¬ 
talia 3 : uncus represented by two short downturned acute trian¬ 
gular processes rising from a trapezoidal plate, with q short spine 
behind each of these within; gnathos forming *4wo long slender 
processes somewhat dilated and rounded at apex, rather incurved 
towards tip ; valves very long, narrow, becoming cylindrical poste¬ 
riorly and strongly upcurved towards apex, acute, clothed with 
rough projecting scales above from base to curve. Forewings 
elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely 
rounded ; bronzy suffused deep purple; markings suffused, whitish ; 
a roundish spot at base in middle ; an obscure sometimes inter¬ 
rupted dorsal streak from near base to postmedian fascia; a 
transverse discal blotch at ^ formed of three confluent spots, median 
elongate and projecting posteriorly ; a transverse postmedian fascia 
formed of 4 or 5 confluent elongate spots, leaving costal edge dark, 
median longest, more or less obscurely connected along tornus 
with a transverse-oval blotch before upper part of termen : cilia 
purplish-bronzy. Hindwings whitish, in 3 apical third, in $ half 
suffused light grey ; cilia light grey, round dorsum and tornus 
whitish. Forewings 3 beneath with depressed fringe of rough 
scales along vein 12 from base to near extremity, and moderate 
naked purple-tinged space beneath this. Hindwings 3 with long 
expansible ochreous-wdiitish hairpencil from base of costa lying 
beneath forewings. 
Peru, Oconeque, Carabaya, 7000 feet, February ( Ochenden ) ; 
5 ex. 
Melodryas zonotorna, n. sp. 
3 2 • 13-20 mm. Head dark purple-grejq face 3 grey, 2' 
reddish-yellow, collar orange-yellow, in 2 median portion dark 
fuscous. Palpi 3 grey, 2 dark purple-grey. Thorax dark purple- 
fuscous. Abdomen dark purple-fuscous, in <3 basal segment, in $ 
4 basal segments orange-yellow, anal tuft of 3 and large rounded 
valves light grey. Forewings elongate, apex rounded, termen 
obliquely rounded; dark fuscous, faintly purplish-tinged ; an 
irregular-edged orange-yellow autemedian fascia, not quite reaching 
costa, 3 rather narrow, $ moderately broad: cilia fuscous. Hind¬ 
wings dark fuscous ; basal half except extreme base orange-yellow, 
edge rounded-convex, running from beyond middle of costa to near 
tornus ; cilia fuscous. 
New Guinea, Goodenough I., 2500-4000 feet, May { Meelc ) ; 2 ex. 
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