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cocellular; some black irrorations on veins 2-5 near cell; outer line obliquely 

 incurved from costa to below vein 5 near termen, then inbent, lunular, with 

 projecting lines on distal side; a subterminal fuscous spot from costa to vein 7, 

 and salmon color spots on interspaces, forming a large spot at tornus; a fine 

 terminal black line; cilia white spotted with drab. Hind wings white; costa, 

 apex and termen narrowly suffused with cinnamon drab; veins terminally dark 

 streaked with subterminal points. 

 Expanse, 21 mm. 



Habitat. Porto Rico. 



Type. Cat. No. 25788, U. S. N. M. 



Fresh specimens are probably greener. 



Stericta emerantia, new species. 



Female. Palpi cinnamon buff with some black scaling in front and a white 

 shade below. Head, collar and thorax light pinkish cinnamon, the collar shaded 

 in front with vinaceous cinnamon. Abdomen cinnamon buff, a whitish buff 

 dorsal shade at base, the terminal segments whitish buff irrorated with black. 

 Fore legs and tarsi vinaceous fawn, the tarsi with whitish rings. Fore wings: 

 basal half cinnamon buff limited by a series of black scales, inangled in cell; 

 terminal half white thickly irrorated with black with grayish shadings on either 

 side of postmedial line from veins 2 to 7; postmedial black, outcurved between 

 veins 6 and 3 with projecting streaks on veins 3 to 5; traces of a subterminal line 

 with streaks on veins 3 to 5; termen narrowly fuscous; cilia white with black 

 spots. Hind wings semihyaline white faintly tinged with pale pinkish cinnamon; 

 costal margin cinnamon buff; some slight fuscous shading on termen; cilia white 

 with some black tipped hairs near apex. Wings below with costal margins 

 vinaceous cinnamon, the fore wings suffused with black except from cell and 

 vein 2 to inner margin. 



Expanse, 28 mm. 



Habitat. Carabaya, Peru. 



Type Cat. No. 25687, U. S. N, M. 



Stericta ildefonsa, new species. 



Female. Palpi whitish buff, shaded behind with avellaneous, some fuscous 

 scaling in front at end of second joint. Head white. Collar and thorax white 

 shaded with pale cinnamon pink. Abdomen above cinnamon buff; underneath 

 and legs whitish buff, the fore and hind tarsi with large black spots. Forewings: 

 the basal half cinnamon buff with whitish shading below cell and on inner margin, 

 limited by an outbent line of raised black and fuscous scales from subcostal to 

 submedian; the buff color extends a bit further above subcostal; an antemedial 

 small cluster of black scales below cell; terminal half of wing drab thickly irror- 

 ated with white; some raised brown scales on discocellular; postmedial line out- 

 curved, dentate, defined by some whitish buff scaling on its outer edge; traces of 

 a subterminal line parallel with postmedial, both of ground color with fewer 

 irrorations; a terminal dark line; cilia mottled dark smoky gray and whitish 

 buff. Hind wings semihyaline white suffused with pale pink; costa, apex and 

 termen narrowly silkv fuscous; cilia gray brown tipped with white. 



