Cat. lep. Ph. Brit. Mus. Supp. 1:

*1001 a. Desmotricha hoffmannsi. (Plate XV. fig. 20.)
Trichodesma hoffmannsi, Roths. Noy. Zool. xix. p. 158 (1912).
Head pale yellow with brown patches on frons and vertex ;
antenne blackish; palpi brown, the Ist joint and 2nd joint in
front and at extremity yellow; thorax reddish brown, the tegul
yellowish at base, the patagia nh whitish streaks; cox hee
the femora streaked with white; abdomen brown een a bluish
gloss on dorsum and sublateral white fascize except at extremity,
Fore wing dark reddish brown, the basal half with pale streaks on
costa andl veins and in Sehenedin fold; a rather broad oblique
yellow postmedial band from just below ee to just before termen
above tornus, towards which it narrows somewhat. Hind wing
dark reddish brown with a wedge-shaped yellow fascia in and
below lower part of cell from near base to near termen, its
extremity rounded; the underside with the inner area white.

Hab, Peru, Pozuzo, Huanuco (Hoffmanns), type t 3 in Coll,
Rothschild; Borrvra, Buenavista (Steenbach). Exp. 34 millim,