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brownish purple less strongly marked patch on each side of vein 1. Hindwings 



buff washed with purplish rufous. 



Length of forewing : 16 mm. Expanse : 36 mm. 



Habitat. St. Jean de Maroni, French Guiana, 7 S<S type ; St. Laurent de 

 Maroni (Le Moult pere), 1 S; Fonte Boa, Upper Amazons, June 1906 (S. M. 

 Klages), 3 ?? ; Aroewarwa Creek, Maroewym Valley, Suruiam, May^ — June 1905 

 (S. M. Klages), 1 ?. 



111. Hapigia ruJocinnamomia spec. nov. 



!? 9. Antennae rufous ; head and thorax rufous cinnamon strongly suffused 

 with purplish vhiaceous ; abdomen sooty grey -brown. 



Forewmg violaceous cinnamon with a buff antemedian bandlike area, and 

 two postmedian buff patchlike areas, one near tornus above which is an orange 

 spot, and one near apex ; the whole wing crossed with numerous lines of coalescent 

 lunules, some with olivaceous centres ; an olivaceous stigma and olive sub- 

 apical spot. Hindwmgs smoky grey-brown. 



Length of forewing : S 37 mm., ? 47 mm. Expanse : S 82 mm., ? 102 mm. 



Habitat. Potaro, British Guiana, February 1908 (S. M. Klages), 3 $S, 1 '? 

 ((Jtype); Omai, British Guiana, 1 cJ ; Fonte Boa, Upper Amazons, May 1906 

 (S. M. Klages), 2 <?<?. 



112. Antaea pseudosmerinthus spec. nov. 



cj. At first sight resembles Laothoe amurensis. Antennae yellowish grey ; 

 head and thorax brown-grey suffused with vmaceous, distal half of patagia 

 freckled with ash-grey, a crimson smear at back of thorax ; abdomen dark grey- 

 brown. 



Forewing pinkish grey washed somewhat with vinaceous, two antemedian 

 lines whitish edged outwardly with vinaceous, an ovoid vinaceous patch in 

 cell rmged with darker vinaceous and then whitish ; at the end of cell is a large 

 looped line between costa and median vein inside vmaceous and outside whitish, 

 the distal arm of the loop stained with scarlet ; a postmedian bent sinuate whitish 

 line edged outwardly with vinaceous ; a postdiscal similar line concavely curved 

 and slightly crenulate from costa to vein 4, strongly zigzag from vem 4 to vein 1, 

 from above vem 4 to vein 1 this line is strongly stained with scarlet ; the termen 

 has a deep brown terminal line and is deeply serrated, from apex to vein 4 

 the wmg is truncate and concave, from vem 4 to vein 1 it is obliquely cut off. 

 Huidwing dark sooty grey-bro\ra. 



Length of forewing : 43 mm. Expanse : 95 mm. 



Habitat. Fonte Boa, Upper Amazons, May 1906 (S. M. Klages), \l S3 

 type ; Santo Antonio do Javary, Upper Amazons, June 1907 (S. M. Klages), 

 I (J; Humayta, Rio Madeira, July — September 1906 (W. Hoiimanns), 1 S. 



Some specimens have some sooty patches on the intranervular spaces 

 between veins 2 and 4. 



113. Chliora mediostriga spec. nov. 



(J. Antennae brown ; head, thorax, and abdomen dark vinaceous cinnamon. 



Forewing brownish orange-buff with numerous cross-lines of vinaceous 



cinnamon coalescent lunules in basal and outer thirds of the wing ; central 



