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Head aii<l tlinrax brown varic'd with pale spots and streaks ; tlie patajjia with 

 palp edges : abdomen (rnbbed) apparently dincry whitish with darker dorsal and 

 lateral stripes. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



1 ? from Hnmayta, Rio Madeira, .Tnly — September lOOC (Hoffmanns). 



8. Oricia scissa spec nov. 



Forcwiiifi : dark olive-brown, with the veins all y(dlow; from middle of costa 

 a yellow wedge-sliajied streak runs to snbmedian fold at three-fourths, the i;rnnud- 

 colonr on eacii sidi' of it cbirker and interrupting the yellow veins; fringe ]iale 

 brown. 



Hindiriiui : deep yellow, the inner margin below cell and vein 2, a sijnare 

 blotch at apex above vein 4, and the margin between 2 and 4 narrowly brown- 

 black ; fringe dark brown ; the extreme inner margin and its fringe yellowish. 



Underside dark brown ; forewing with an obliquely edged basal patch 

 yellowish; a broad deep yellow band of uniform width from middle of costa 

 nearly to anal angle ; hindwing like npperside, but the dark areas brown ; inner 

 margin more broadly yellowish. 



Face and vertex yellow ; palpi yellow with the tips black ; thorax and 

 patagia streaked alternately olive-brown and dull yellow; dorsum brownish 

 cinereous, edged by a broad orange lateral stripe; venter cream-enlour ; legs 

 grey and whitish. 



Expanse of wings : 4ii mm. 



Botb sexes from Fonte Boa, Upper Amazons, May to .Tidy lOitG (Klages). 



In this species vein 10 is stalked with 7, ><, 9, instead of rising free. 



n. Phaeochlaena biorbiculata spec nov. 



Foreidiit) olive-brown, with the veins yellowish, and two round wiiitish 

 spots, one at lower end of cell between the cell-fold and ba<e of vein 2, the other 

 submargiual, crossed by veins 5 and ; fringe brown. 



Iliiidirinfi : cream-white, witli broad black costal and outer marginal Imnler, 

 and the base diffnsely browLi ; the veins and fdld also streaked witli brown across 

 the white area. 



Underside similar ; both wings brown. 



I'alpi yellowisii ; face white ; antennae lilacl; ; jiafagia with yellnw spot at 

 base ; thorax and abdomen brownish cinereous. 



Expanse of wings : S 28 mm. ; ? 35 mm. 



A long series from Fonte Boa, Upper Amazons, May to July lOiiG (Klages). 



The species dilfers from /'//. tiiiili/msn, the type of the genus, in having 

 vein lo stalked with 7, 8, '.i, and the antennae iif the ? are shortly bi|ie('tiuate. 



l(t. Polypoetes vidua spec nov. 



Forfwiixj : semitransparent, sparsely sealed, black, with the veins dclieafely 

 white; a white semihyaline narrow streak from base to beyond middle betweiMi 

 median vein and snbmedian fold ; a white blotch beyond cell between vein i! 

 and the stem of :), 4, its upper edge obliijne; a small white tridentatc mark 

 before apex, caused by the swelling of veins 7, S, ',), which rise nearly all together ; 

 fringe black. 



