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a faint postmedial line. Fore wings below suffuse ' with drab, the inner margin 

 white; the outer line distinct. Hind wings below as above; cilia buff white. 

 Expanse, 20 mm. 



Habitat. Orizaba, Mexico. 

 Type. Cat. No. 25684, U. S. N. M. 



Stericla canutusa, new species. 



Male. Palpi whitish buff. Head whitish and buff pink. Thorax fuscous; 

 patagia and collar buff pink. Abdomen above whitish irrorated with black and 

 buff pink; underneath buff. Thorax below and throat white. Fore wings drab 

 gray; a black basal spot on costa; a subbasal black point below cell; a streak of 

 black scales along base of inner margin; an antemedial black spot on costa and a 

 long thick streak below submedian, outwardly joined by some dark curved 

 scaling, closely followed by the black outcurved medial line; base of costal 

 margin whitish buff; costa beyond medial line olive brown; faint traces of a post- 

 medial brownish shade; subterminal line brown streaked with black, excurved 

 on costa followed by a white spot, outcurved to close to termen between veins 

 5 and 3, then incurved, barely indicated, edged by a white line at inner margin; a 

 black spot follows the line between veins 6 and 9; some black on termen. Hind 

 wings white, the costa and apex suffused with smoky brown, and the termen with 

 narrow suffusions; cilia white divided by a smoky line. 



Expanse, 18 mm. 



Habitat. St. Jean, French Guiana. 

 Type Cat. No. 25685, U. S. N. M. 



The fore wings are rather narrow, the termen obliquely 

 curved. 



Stericta maidoa, new species. 



Female. Palpi ferruginous, the second joint whitish at base and tip. Head 

 and collar ferruginous. Thorax salmon buff, the patagia green on shoulders, 

 tipped with black and mouse gray. Abdomen hazel, with raised dark dorsal 

 tufts beyond middle; underneath buff irrorated with black. Tibiae mostly 

 ferruginous; fore tarsi ferruginous at base, then black with white rings. Fore 

 wings cosse green; base of inner margin ferruginous; a black basal spot; a sub- 

 basal black line on costa; antemedial line black, double, outbent on costa, 

 inversely curved below cell, the outer line followed on inner margin by a partly 

 black space its upper edge curved to vein 2; some black scales on discocellular; 

 postmedial line velvety black brown, minutely lunular, outbent from costa to 

 vein 3 then inbent, macular, closely followed by the more heavily marked 

 blacker subterminal which nearly touches termen at vein 4 is downbent to vein 

 3, then finer and macular; the large apical space is cinnamon rufous shading to 

 salmon buff on termen; small terminal black spots; cilia hazel with black and 

 buff mottling, tipped with green at apex and tornus. Hind wings prout's 

 brown, the veins and termen black brown; a terminal white point at vein 2. 

 Wings below fuscous, the costal and terminal margins ferruginous; a yellow 



