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points beyond cell between veins 5 and 7 more heavily edged with dark 

 brown, and two larger spots slightly outset between veins 3 and 5, their outer 

 edge indentate on vein 4, and only dark edged outwardly ; faint terminal spots 

 on interspaces. Hind wings more thinly scaled, whitish at base and on 

 inner margin; a semihyaline small spot with dark edge beyond discocellular; a 

 faint postmedial line dentate between 5 and 2, upbent to cell and downbent 

 to below middle of inner margin; an interrupted dark terminal line; a dark 

 line at base of cilia. Wings below paler tinged with gray. 



Expanse, 29 mm. 



Habitat. Cayuga, Guatemala. 



Type. Cat. No. 23802, U. S. N. M. 



Sylepta albicostalis, new species. 



Male. Palpi : first joint white, second and third dark brown. Head, 

 collar and thorax bright orange. Abdomen above gray. Body below and 

 legs white; fore and hind tibiae and tarsi streaked with gray. Fore wings 

 gray shot with blue, the apex narrowly white; cilia gray, at apex dark brown. 

 Hind wings gray; the costal margin for two thirds from base broadly white, 

 extending beyond anterior half of cell. Wings below pale gray without any 

 white at apex of fore wing; the costal margin of hind wing as above. 



Expanse, 46 mm. 



Habitat. Volcan de Santa Maria, Guatemala. 



Type. Cat. No. 23803, U. S. N. M. 



Neat S. laticalis Lederer. 



Sylepta viridivertex, new species. 



Male. Palpi brown, the first joint white. Frons pale brownish ochre. 

 Vertex and collar pale green. Thorax grayish shaded with pale green behind; 

 patagia mostly pale green shaded. Abdomen dull brownish gray with faint 

 greenish shading dorsally. Abdomen below ochreous white. Legs white; 

 fore tarsi with three fuscous bands. W r ings thinly scaled brownish gray, 

 the lines dull dark brown; a pale line at base of cilia which is partly darker 

 shaded. Fore wings: antemedial line slightly outcurved; a dark line on 

 discocellular not reaching lower angle of cell; a dentate postmedial line from 

 subcostal, outbent and curved from below vein 6 to below vein 3, then up- 

 bent, curved at lower angle of cell and slightly outbent to inner margin. 

 Hind wings more thinly scaled at base; a dark line on discocellular; post- 

 medial line faintly dentate, vertical to below vein 6 slightly outcurved and 

 upbent between veins 3 and 2, then downbent to inner margin before reach- 

 ing cell. Wings below paler, the hind wings almost white with the post- 

 medial line better defined. 



Expanse, 30 mm. 



Habitat. Aroa, Venezuela. 



Type. Cat. No. 23804, U. S. N. M. 



Near 5. silicalis Guence. 



