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on inner margin near angle. Wings below yellowish tinged with reddish 

 brown, chiefly on fore wings; the spots minute; the postmedial line dark, 

 indistinct, more remotely followed by the dentate lunular line; some fus- 

 cous subterminal spots on fore wings. 

 Expanse, 38 mm. 



Habitat: St. Jean, Maroni River, Cayenne. 

 Obroatis cratinus, new species. 



Male. Palpi gray, shaded with red at base and above. Head, collar and 

 thorax fawn color. Abdomen dorsally shaded with fuscous gray. Legs 

 clothed with vermilion-brown hairs; tarsi gray, spotted with white. Wings 

 light reddish brown. Fore wings: An antemedial fine gray line, angled 

 on subcostal; orbicular a minute yellow point; reniform large, round, 

 black-brown, broadly edged with ocherous gray; postmedial line fuscous 

 brown, outcurved from costa, inbent, touching reniform, terminating at 

 middle of inner margin; a fine dark outer line, deeply lunular, and puncti- 

 form on veins, followed by lilacine white irrorations, which extend to apex; 

 subterminal pale spots on interspaces. Hind wings similar, but without 

 antemedial markings; an indistinct fuscous line on discocellular. Wings 

 below rose vermilion, thinly irrorated with black; spots minute, black; 

 outer lunular line fine black, the points on veins distinct. 



Expanse, 47 mm. 



Habitat: St. Jean, Maroni River. 

 Athyrma antica, new species. 



Female. Palpi outwardly olive brown, inwardly grayish buff. Head, 

 collar, and thorax grayish brown, tinged and irrorated with lilacine white. 

 Abdomen and hind wings grayish brown. Fore wings gray, tinged with 

 pale reddish brown antemedially and postmedially, the costal margin for 

 two-thirds, and cell medially tinged with lilacine; a subbasal velvety brown 

 line on costa, inbent from subcostal to base; a large velvety black ante- 

 medial spot, somewhat triangular with its apex projecting across cell and 

 connected with a darker gray shade on costa, its inner edge oblique from 

 within cell to below submedian, its outer edge outwardly oblique, but 

 less so than inner edge, its posterior edge sinuous, and finely outlined with 

 white except on medial side; a faint postmedial pale reddish brown line, 

 partly finely marked with black scales, oblique, indistinct on costa, verti- 

 cal, dark-spotted from veins 8 to 6, sharply in and up curved, down bent on 

 discocellular, sinuous to submedian near dark antemedial space, and 

 more heavily marked across this vein; the outer edge of brownish post- 

 medial space oblique from costa near apex to inner margin, somewhat den- 

 tate; a terminal dark lunular line. 



Expanse, 40 mm. 



Habitat: St. Laurent, Maroni River. 

 Near A. tuberosa Feld. 



