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outer margin, irrorated with brown on inner margin; an antemedial 

 fine dark shade, almost straight; a medial fine line, wavy, outset on 

 inner margin; a dark point at end of cell, followed by a faint fuscous 

 line along fold to subterminal; a fine postmedial line outcurved from 

 middle of costa around cell followed by a faint line from costa, par- 

 allel with outer margin, the space between the two lines thickly irro- 

 rated with brown; a broad dentate subterminal fuscous gray shade; 

 terminal dark spots. Hind wings dirty white at base shading to fus- 

 cous gray on outer margin; cilia white. Expanse 23 mm. 



Habitat: St. Jean, French Guiana. 



Paectes phaeoplaga, new species. 



Male. Antennae shortly pectinated on basal half. Palpi fuscous 

 shaded with brown above. Head and collar velvety black tinged with 

 brown, the collar posteriorly edged with lilacine; thorax lilacine gray, 

 edged in front and behind with dark brown. Abdomen brownish irro- 

 rated with black; a geminate transverse white band at base. Fore 

 wings light brown mottled with gray at base of cell, medially in cell 

 and on inner margin, and on outer margin; a fine fuscous antemedial 

 line curved from subcostal to submedian; a fine medial line curved 

 below cell and on inner margin; orbicular round, brown; reniform 

 oval longitudinally, pointed between 5 and 6, gray, edged with fuscous 

 brown; postmedial fine, geminate, oblique from costa to vein 6, inbent 

 to vein 2 and then straight to inner margin, dark brown, becoming 

 velvety black-brown below 2; a subterminal brown shade followed by 

 a fuscous line from costa to vein 7; marginal brown spots, and a ter- 

 minal brown line; cilia grayish spotted with fuscous at veins. Hind 

 wings: the veins and outer half black; the base shaded with light 

 brown; the inner margin whitish crossed by four black lines; cilia 

 whitish with large fuscous spots. Expanse 25 mm. 



Habitat: St. Jean, French Guiana. 



Paectes haematosema, new species. 



Male. Palpi white. Head white with a few brown irrorations. 

 Collar dark brown, shaded and irrorated with lilacine. Thorax fuscous 

 gray tinged with brown and lilacine. Abdomen above mottled brown 

 and white. Fore wings: The basal area dark brown, limited by the 

 antemedial, which is angled just below median, white from costa to that 

 point, then velvety black-brown to inner margin, and with a wavy white 

 basal line from costa to submedian; medial space leaden black; orbicu- 

 lar a white point; reniform light brown edged with white, medially con- 

 stricted followed by a cluster of white scales; postmedial finely dentate, 

 geminate, black, filled in and narrowly edged outwardly with white, 

 followed by some light brown and then a steel-gray shade; a broad sub- 

 terminal light-brown shade edged with white, widest on costa, termi- 



