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abdomen white ; vertex bright fulvons, the face paler fulvous ; forelegs and autenual 

 pectinations fuscous ; the shaft of antennae white. 



Expanse of wings : 39 mm. 



One S from Bogota. 



In the forewings vein 11 rises from cell and anastomoses with the costal : 

 7, 8, 9, m, are stalked ; 1(J anastomoses with 11, again with 8, 9 : fovea absent. 



Eariodes gen. nov. 



Forewings: elongate ; costa strongly arched in basal half; apex blunt, nearly 

 rectangular ; hindmargin oblique, slightly curved. 



Ilindtcings : rounded. 



Antennae simple, lamellate; palpi short, porrect; hindtibiae of <J with fonr spurs. 



Ni'uration : forewings, cell more than half as long as wing ; iirst median at 

 two-thirds, second just before end of cell, third from end ; radialg normal : 7, 8, 9, 

 stalked ; 10 and 11 from cell : 11 anastomosing with costal. Hindwings with first 

 subcostal and second median each before the end of cell ; radial absent. 



Type : Eariodes variomacula sp. nov. 



140. Eariodes variomacula sp. nov. 



Forewings : bright green : the costa narrowly pale ; lines indicated only by 

 minute dark dots on veins, and these mostly absent ; the first curved at one-third, 

 the second obliijue and straight from apex to two-thirds of inner margin ; ? with a 

 yellow red-edged blotch on the outer line embracing veins 3 and 4 ; in the c? the 

 blotch is reduced in size, and red only, and often altogether absent ; fringe 

 white. 



Uindtciiigs : very pale green. 



Underside pale green, with costa of forewings yellowish. Palpi and antennae 

 ochreous ; forelegs brown ; face whitish ; vertex and thorax green ; abdomen like 

 hindwings, silky whitish green. 



Expanse of wings : 22 — 26 mm. 



Several from Sao Paulo ; also from C'astro, Parana. 



Subfamily BRACUINAE. 



141. Melanchroia ateraea subsp. subnotata nov. 



Differs from the type ateraea Cram, in being smaller ; the veins hardly paler : 

 the white blotch on forewings smaller, that on hindwings only present on the 

 underside ; fringe of hindwings whitish throughout. 



Several examples of both sexes from Bahia. 



142. Nelo flora sp. nov. 



Forewings: velvety brown-black, with a long narrow orange-red fascia from 

 below costa just beyond middle to near anal angle : fringe concoloruns. 



Ilindtciiigs : wholly lirowu-lilack. 



Underside the same, but rather i)aler. Head, thorax, and abdomen all 

 brown-black. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



