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whitish buff above with white segmental lines, underneath white. Fore wings 

 mostly white; base of costa finely buff; some brown scaling subbasally in and 

 below cell; medial space from below subcostal light cupreous brown with darker 

 brown edging on either side, the inner side inangled between fold and submedian, 

 the outer side incurved; a few brown scales on discocellular; a dark silky brown 

 spot beyond cell, its inner edge sinuous from vein 6 to vein 3; its outer edge 

 straighter extending to vein 8; below it to inner margin and beyond it to apex 

 a pale buff brown shade with two darker streaks on veins 7 and 8; a very fine 

 terminal cupreous line with darker terminal spots; cilia white. Hind wings 

 silvery white. 

 Expanse 15 mm. 



Habitat. Pernambuco, Brazil. 

 Type Cat. No. 25540, U. S. N. M. 



Erupa somenella, new species. 



Male. Head and thorax buff brown. Abdomen cinnamon; venter with 

 light buff segmental lines. Legs light buff streaked in front with brown. Fore 

 wings cinnamon buff thickly irrorated with buff brown, the veins on termen 

 light buff; a fuscous point antemedially below cell; a dull fuscous spot at end of 

 cell, preceded by a short pale streak; a deeply dentate lunular postmedial fus- 

 cous line, not reaching costa or inner margin, oblique from vein 6 to submedian 

 fold, macular on last two interspaces; terminal black points; cilia whitish buff. 

 Hind wings dull white, the veins irrorated with brown terminally; a lunular fine 

 subterminal brown line; terminal black points. Wings below whitish buff with 

 a distinct postmedial fuscous line and black discal spots; terminal black points; 

 the costal margin of fore wing pale cinnamon. 



Expanse 34 mm. 



Habitat. Volcan de Santa Maria, Guatemala. 

 Type Cat. No. 25541, U. S. N. M. 



Erupa huarmellus, new species. 



Male. Head and thorax purplish brown, the patagia paler tipped with 

 lilacine white. Abdomen above brown, whitish at base and on anal segment. 

 Fore wings avellaneous glossed with purple; a dark brown line from costa at 

 one fourth from base to inner margin at two-thirds; a small dark spot in cell and 

 a larger oblique spot at end of cell continued as a dark shade to termen at sub- 

 median fold; a fine postmedial dark dentate line outwardly paler shaded; a 

 terminal black brown line; cilia whitish with black spots terminally. Hind 

 wings whitish suffused with light silky brown; a very fine dark terminal line. 

 Wings below iridescent ochreous brown; dark discal spots; a dark terminal line 

 partly cut by veins; discal area of fore wing darker shaded. 



Expanse 35 mm. 



Habitat. Yahuarmayo, Peru. 

 Type Cat. No. 25542, U. S. N. M. 



Erupa chilopsisina, new species. 



Male. Head light buff, the palpi laterally brown. Thorax light buff shaded 

 in front with light brown, the neck darker brown. Abdomen above brown 



