338 N. C. AGR. EXP. STA. BUL. 239 
suture at midlength and an oblique yellow spot in apical half of clavus ex- 
tending from claval suture to commissural margin; brachial cell and ad- 
joining cell of corium tan with dull orange stripe parallel to brachial cell and 
a similarly colored spot opposite claval apex; two diagonal parallel brown 
bands extending posteromesad from costal margin in apical half of wing, a 
hyaline spot in base of outer apical cell narrowly bordered anteriorly with red 
and posteriorly with brown; a small black spot in first and third apical cells. 
Female marked as in holotype except that clavus and adjoining area of corium 
are not brown. Face, venter, thoracic pleura, and legs, dull yellow to brown, 
with a dark line below dorsopleural carina. 
Holotype male and one female, Chiriaco, Peru, September 25, 1968 (D. 
Ojeda P.) (AMNH). 
Of the two pale species of Tipuana, chirensis is distinctive in its truncate style 
apices, shorter pygofer, and a lack of apicoventral aedeagal processes. 

FIGURE 274.—Tipuana sp. (specimens from French Guiana; only apical portion 
of aedeagus shown in g; A from dorsal view). 
