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nating on inner margin in a bright red spot; apex to vein 6 leaden black: 

 outer margin below vein 6 whitish buff crossed by an interrupted black 

 line; cilia fuscous gray and brown. Hind wings white on basal half; 

 the veins and outer half fuscous; inner margin white with some opales- 

 cent scales; a medial and a postmedial geminate dark streak; cilia buff 

 and brown tipped with white. Expanse 26 mm. 



Habitat : St. Jean, French Guiana. 



Paectes eumicta, new species. 



Female. Antennae with long curly and pubescent pectinations on 

 basal half. Palpi light brown, tinged with lilacine and irrorated with 

 black. Head and collar lilacine irrorated with black, the latter crossed 

 by a transverse black and brown shade. Thorax mottled lilacine and 

 brown. Abdomen fuscous gray; a geminate transverse buff line at 

 base. Fore wing.- : Basal area olive-brown, with a fuscous gray spot 

 on costa, a similar line in cell, one below cell, and suffusions on inner 

 margin; medial fuscous gray shades, the costa olive-brown, also the 

 orbicular, which is large, round, containing a darker point, and a large 

 space at end of cell; a whitish shade across costa and before reniform, 

 and a dark irregular line from cell to inner margin ; reniform space fus- 

 cous gray edged with fuscous brown; the postmedial geminate, angled 

 above vein 6, inwardly oblique, wavy, olive-brown, becoming dark vel- 

 vety black-brown below submedian fold; from vein 4 to inner margin 

 the postmedial is followed by a fuscous gray shade; a broad subter- 

 minal olive-brown shade, partly shaded with light gray, and followed 

 by a fuscous gray line; outer margin grayish with a row of black in- 

 tervenal spots, from which dark shades extend obliquely on cilia. 

 Hind wings black shaded with dark brown; cilia whitish mottled with 

 dark brown. Expanse 23 mm. 



Habitat: St. Jean, French Guiana. 



Paectes endochlora, new species. 



Female. Palpi outwardly bronze-brown irrorated with fuscous gray 

 and white. Head, collar, and thorax fuscous gray, shaded with lila- 

 cine. Abdomen fuscous gray, irrorated with white laterally. Fore 

 wings fuscous gray; some dark green at base, and along inner margin 

 to postmedial; orbicular small, dark green; antemedial geminate, fus- 

 cous, forming four short curves; a medial line followed by a few 

 whitish scales on median; postmedial geminate, excurved, filled in and 

 preceded by some green and light gray scaling and followed to sub- 

 terminal by a broad dull fuscous-brown space; the subterminal whitish 

 gray, indistinct except at costa; marginal dark brown, transverse 

 spots between the veins. Hind wings blackish brown; the cilia dark 

 brown, tipped with white. Expanse 18 mm. 



Habitat: Cayenne, French Guiana. 



