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Pilocrocis estebanalis, new species. 



Female. Palpi cinnamon brown fringed below with white. Frons brown- 

 Vertex white mottled with pale ochreous. Collar yellow, thorax whitish 

 yellow; a cinnamon brown line on shoulders. Abdomen above pale yellow, 

 underneath silvery white. Thorax below silvery white, the legs white; the 

 fore legs outwardly ochreous. Wings semihyaline pale yellow. Fore wings: 

 costal edge very finely brown; an antemedial brown point in cell; a round 

 medial spot below subcostal, a brown bar on discocellular. Hind wings 

 without markings. Wings below white; a dark line on discocellular of fore 

 wing. 



Expanse, 2(5 mm. 



Habitat. San Esteban Valley, Venezuela. 



Type. Cat. No. 23786, U. S. N. M. 



Near P. citrina Druce. 



Pilocrocis sororalis, new species. 



Male. Palpi ochreous white, the first and second joints with terminal 

 gray rings. Head white with a large gray spot on frons and on vertex. 

 Collar white with a central and outer fuscous gray lines; thorax fuscous edged 

 with white behind, the patagia white with large dark spots. Abdomen 

 above white with broad black segmental lines somewhat narrower subdor- 

 jally; underneath silvery white. Legs white, the fore femora and tibiae with 

 gray spots. Fore wings opalescent, semihyaline, white, the markings dark 

 cupreous brown; costal edge pale ochreous, the markings not crossing it 

 except the postmedial line ; a thick broken basal line; a broad subbasal line, 

 expanding into a spot in cell; antemedial line fine, almost vertical expanding 

 slightly just below cell; a medial spot Irom above cell to a black line along 

 median; a medial spot above submedian connected on inner margin with 

 the antemedial by an inbent line ; a broad fascia across discocellular space ; 

 postmedial narrow, vertical to vein 5, then slightly outbent to vein 1', up- 

 bent along it to discocellular fascia with which it suffuses, then downbent to 

 inner margin, being followed there by a narrow white line, the rest of inner 

 margin to tornus being broadly dark ataded; a large terminal dark 

 space, its proximal edge rounded, almost touching the postmedial line and 

 stopping at vein 3; only a terminal dark line between veins '2 and '.}; cilia 

 mottled while and fuscous. Hind wings semihyaline opalescent white; a 

 black spot at vein 6 and cell; a postmedial fuscous shade, expanding into a 

 spot on inner margin above anal angle; a fuscous shade from postmedial 

 from vein 3 to termen below vein 2; a curved line from postmedial above 

 vein 5 to vein 2 near termen; a dark apical quadrate spot not reaching vein 

 5. Fore wings below without the dark space at inner angle, only a short 

 line; the postmedial line free throughout. Hind wings with the markings 

 much fainter. 



Expanse, o4 mm. 



Habitat. Cayuga, Guatemala. 



Type. Cat. No. 2:!7S7, U. S. N. M. 



Near P. pellucidalis Dogn. 



