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streak on costa of fore wings and some yellow spots towards apex; a postmedial 

 black line better defined on hind wing. 

 Expanse, 29 mm. 



Habitat. St. Jean, French Guiana. 



Type Cat. No. 25686, U. S. N. M. 



On fore wing vein 9 is stalked with 8 before 7. 



Stericta teffealis, new species. 



Male. Palpi avellaneous shaded behind with buffy brown. Head and the 

 frons mottled with white. Thorax tilleul buff, collar vmaceous buff, mottled 

 with mouse gray and white. Abdomen above white with warm buff transverse 

 bands, underneath white. Legs white with some dark scaling, the tarsi avel- 

 laneous; throat deep mouse gray. Fore wings avellaneous. the markings 

 chiefly fuscous; a streak on basal half of costa and one in cell faintly whitish 

 gray; an antemedial black point in cell, and a short fine streak below cell of 

 raised black scales; an outcurved double medial line, the inner line rather broad; 

 a line of raised black and fuscous scales on discoeellular; small postmedial spots 

 on veins 4, 5, and on submedian fold; an outer macular line, slightly outcurved 

 from vein 6 and closely followed by a subterminal continuous line; terminal 

 round black spots on interspaces; cilia whitish crossed by a macular brown line. 

 Hind wings silvery white; veins 2-7 streaked with wood brown terminally, and 

 a narrow dark shade at apex; a very fine terminal dark line; cilia white with dark 

 mottling at veins. Fore wings below suffused with fuscous, the inner margin 

 white, the costa light buff. Hind wings below white; a few dark scales and sub- 

 terminal spot on costa; apex narrowly fuscous. 



Expanse, 29 mm. 



Habitat. Mouth Rio Teffe, Brazil. 



CotypeCat. No 25791, U. S. N. M. 



The type at Cornell University to which we are indebted for 

 a specimen. 



The antennae are bipectinated. Vein 10 is from the cell and 

 apparently anostomoses with 9 to form a long narrow areole. 



Stericta alnotha, new species. 



Male. Palpi whitish shaded with ochraceous buff, the third joint fuscous. 

 Antennal process pale ochraceous buff. Collar white overlaid with broad 

 salmon buff scales. Thorax and patagia white with a few scattered black scales. 

 Abdomen above whitish irrorated'with vinaceous except on basal segment; fine 

 transverse segmental lines; underneath white. Legs white, the tarsi with fus- 

 cous rings. Fore wings cream color with a faint greenish tinge; a black point on 

 vein 1 at base; subbasal black spots on costa and below cell, also a streak of 

 irrorations below vein 1; an oblique white fascia limited by the antemedial 

 black line which is very fine, outcurved from costa to near vein 1 , followed in cell 

 by a black point; medial line more heavily marked from a black spot on o > 

 incurved, almost touching antemedial below cell, then straight and outhent to 

 inner margin, followed below cell by black irrorations; a fine black line on dis- 



