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apex to middle of inner margin, marked with buff white points on 

 veins; a diffuse fuscous brown subterminal shade outwardly edged 

 with light brown. 



Hind wings dull roseate brown at base and along iinner margin, 

 brownish on costa ; ocellus very large, black, broadly circled with 

 whitish yellow, containing an irregular brown spot with four lines 

 projecting towards outer margin, and an angled white line within 

 it; a postmedial lunular black line followed by a broad maroon 

 shade; outer margin and cilia ochreous buff, with a darker terminal 

 line. 



Fore wings below brownish buff, tinged with reddish except on 

 costal and outer margins which are shaded with fuscous ; a large black 

 discal spot containing a small white spot; an outer black line, wavy 

 from costa, well before apex to middle of inner margin; traces of 

 subterminal triangular fuscous shades. 



Hind wings below brownish buff irrorated with fuscous ; a small 

 horizontal whitish discal streak, dark edged ; a wavy, irregular post- 

 medial dark line; traces of subterminal shadings as on fore wings. 



Ex. 95 mm. 



Hob. Joinville, Brazil. 



Othorene corrupta sp. n. 



$. Head, collar, and patagia dull purplish slate colour; thorax 

 roseate brown. Abdomen above pale reddish brown. 



Fore wings dull purplish slate colour at base, shading to roseate 

 brown terminally, crossed by numerous black striae, but fewer on 

 outer margin ; no traces of lines. 



Hind wings pale brown, darker shaded on costa; a purplish red shade 

 along inner margin. 



Fore wings below roseate brown, the apex striated with black. 



Hind wings below yellow buff, shaded with roseate on inner margin. 



Ex. 72 mm. 



Hob. Joinville, Brazil. 



Cicinnus maera sp. n. 



$ . Head roseate brown. Collar, thorax, and abdomen pale red- 

 dish ; anal tufts fuscous brown. 



Fore wings to outer line pale reddish shaded with smoky grey be- 

 fore the line, and with a few scattered fuscous scales on postmedial 

 space; a large round buff white spot filling end of cell, finely darker 

 edged, especially on discocellular, which is followed by a slight 

 fuscous grey shade ; pale shades between veins 2 and 4 close to 

 median; a fine darker red line from cell spot to inner margin; outer 

 line remote, fine, oblique on costa, angled at vein 8, then thicker, dark 



