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above yellow brown, the third segment dark reddish brown with subdorsal 

 white points in front and a dorsal white point behind; anal segment pale yel- 

 low. Body below and legs white. Fore wings: base, except edge of costa 

 and inner margin, broadly to the postmedial line, fuscous brown shot with 

 iridescent steel; this dark space is edged in front by a fuscous brown line 

 preceded by a dark yellow line and is oblique from costa to below end of cell 

 just above submedian, then up and incurved to vein 2, angled and outbent 

 to just above vein 2; the curve is followed by a black shade downbent to 

 submedian; medially on inner margin an angled dark yellow line edged with 

 fuscous brown; postmedial space pale brown; the medial space forming a 

 large irregular triangle with its base on costa, pale yellow; a small spot in 

 cell defined by some dark scales; a yellow streak on discocellular edged by a 

 reddish brown line; the postmedial pale brown space does not extend above 

 vein 8, the costa remaining yellow to apex, only crossed by the postmedial 

 line which is outcurved, almost subterminal, fine, fuscous brown shaded on 

 either side with yellow, thicker and geminate between veins 5 and 6, slightly 

 outset and lunular from veins 5 to 2, vertical below vein 2, followed by an 

 irregular, narrow grayish purple shade from veins 2 to 5, and above vein 5 

 to vein 7 by a similar diverging shade; termen pale yellow; a fine brown 

 terminal line; cilia yellow. Hind wings: base and inner margin brownish 

 purple; a fringe of long hairs below cell; medial space pale yellow forming a 

 large irregular spot outwardly edged by the postmedial line, which is dark 

 brown, thick, and vertical from costa to vein 5, then lunular to vein 2, slightly 

 upcurved and outbent to inner margin where it is angled, followed by a 

 purplish gray shade, widest from vein 4 to costa, and at anal angle; termen 

 yellow. Wings below whitish showing the more thinly scaled medial blotches 

 of upper side; fine postmedial fuscous streaks from veins 5 to 7, followed by 

 subterminal grayish shades. 

 Expanse, 43 mm. 



Habitat. Castro, Parana, Brazil. 

 Type. Cat. No. 23548, U. S. N. M. 



Polygrammodes basaralis, new species. 



Female. Palpi purple fringed with white below; a reddish brown spot 

 laterally at base. Head yellowish. Collar and thorax roseate purple. 

 Abdomen above yellow. Body below and legs white; fore tibiae and tarsi 

 streaked with purple. Fore wings: the basal half roseate purple extending 

 on costal margin to the postmedial line; terminal half pale yellow; post- 

 medial line purple, lunular, vertical to below vein 7, slightly inset and out- 

 curved, lunular, to vein 2 where it is inbent and curved to vein 3 ; small dark 

 spots adjoining cell between veins 3 and 5, small subterminal purple lunules 

 on interspaces; almost imperceptible marginal points, more distinct towards 

 apex; cilia yellow, the tips silvery, and with fuscous points at veins. Hind 

 wings yellow, a large roseate purple spot at end of cell; an irregular post- 

 medial fuscous line from vein 7, incurved to vein 5, lunular to vein 2 along 

 which it is upbent and outbent towards inner margin before reaching cell; 



