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fine dentate and interrupted line, deeply outcurved and barely traceable; 

 a short dash in place of orbicular; reniform irregular, pale brown, preceded 

 by a white point and brown shade, followed by a white streak to postme- 

 dial; a medial brown dash below cell; postnicdial fine, geminate, dark 

 brown, deeply outcurved beyond cell, and inbent to before middle of inner 

 margin; a dark shade below white streak and post medial; postmedial fol- 

 lowed on costa by a small brown spot and a long, thick black streak to near 

 apex; fine fuscous streaks on veins 6 and 7, and a shorter marginal streak 

 between them; outer space from near vein 6 to inner margin fuscous brown, 

 crossed by an outer sinuous fuscous line, between which and the postmr- 

 dial there is a buff shade on inner margin. Hind wings: Base narrowly 

 pale buff, otherwise dull brown irrorated with fuscous: A deeply dentate 

 medial fuscous line : the termen broadly fuscous except from vein 6 to 

 above 7, with intervenal brownish streaks. Fore wings below buff shaded 

 with pale brown, base narrowly; a curved brown line crossing discocellular 

 expanding below cell; the postmedial interrupted, less inbent; the dark 

 terminal space narrower, blacker. Hind wings below buff, shaded with 

 pale brown; a broad fuscous antemedial shade, not reaching inner margin; 

 a postmedial brown shade mottled with fuscous from vein 5 to near inner 

 margin; the termen mottled with fuscous from vein 5 to anal angle. 

 Expanse, 32 mm. 



Habitat: Cayenne. 

 Focilla gregalis, new species. 



Female. Palpi fuscous irrorated with white. Head, and body above 

 brown; some white scaling on vertex; segmental fuscous lines on abdomen. 

 Fore wings brown, tinged with olive gray; an irregular fuscous subbasal 

 line; antemedial fine, lunular, fuscous brown, deeply inbent in cell, pre- 

 ceded by a white point on costa; a black point as orbicular; a wavy reddish 

 brown medial line, followed by a similar shade; reniform indistinct, in- 

 curved, fuscous gray, edged with olive gray; postmedial fine, velvety black, 

 wavy, outcurved beyond cell, followed by an irregular reddish-brown shade, 

 subterminal fuscous shadings, forming spots towards apex; a lunular mar- 

 ginal black line connecting intervenal spots, outwardly shaded with lil- 

 acine white. Hind wings: a black streak on discocellular; abroad dark 

 reddish-brown shade, followed by the fine wavy black postnicdial line, 

 which crosses a faint lilacine shade; subterminal lunular, dentate, fuscous, 

 indistinctly geminate; the marginal dark points distinct, the line connect- 

 ing them less so. Wings angled at vein 4. Underneath light yellow brown 

 with some darker irrorations; the lines black, very distinct on hind wings, 

 wavy; the subterminal distinctly geminate, interrupted by veins on hind 

 wings. 



Expanse, 36 mm. 



Habitat: St. Jean, Maroni River. 



