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antemcJiaii patch bulow tin; mediiui vein, the third toiu-hiiii; the two marginal 

 patches ; cell-spot deep red, iuclnded in the antemedian ])atch : marginal s])ots 

 large, red ; fringe straw-colour and red. 



Uiiidicings : red, with an irregular liiuulate-edged straw-coloured patch at anal 

 angle and smaller patches towards aj)ex; the two dentate lines more or less obscured; 

 two black spots on the discocellular, and some coarse black scales throughout the 

 wing. 



Underside paler, straw-colour washed with red ; the two lines and cell-spot of 

 forewings reddish. Face, thorax, and anal segments of abdomen straw-colour ; rest 

 of abdomen and shoulders reddisli. 



Expanse of wings : 32 — 34 mm. 



One 6, two ? ?, from Rio Demerara. 



Tl. Dysephyra lunifera si>. no v. 



Fnrewiiifis : deep j'ellow, with orange-red irroration, tlie whole more or less 

 suffused with olive-fuscous ; costa broadly smoky fuscous ; tirst line at one-fourth, 

 bent on the median vein : second a little beyond middle, strongly cscurved round 

 cell and incurved below middle, distinctly dentate, fuscous; outer line at two-thirds, 

 very strongly dentate, parallel throughout to the middle line; submarginal line formed 

 of contiguous black blotches, running obliquely from costa to a blackish patch at 

 middle of hindmargia ; a fuscous cloud at anal angle ; marginal spots dark brown ; 

 fringe reddish brown ; cell-spot large, diffuse, smoky fuscous, touching the costal 

 streak al)0ve, and below the median conjoined to a smoky sulFusion reaching the 

 inner margin between first and second lines. 



Hiiulivings : with all three lines represented ; the space between first and third 

 wholly suffused with greyish fuscous, the marginal area likewise, but not so deejily; 

 cell-sjiot double, black. 



Underside dull reddish ochreous, with the markings all dull. Head red-brown; 

 thorax and abdomen yellowisli, speckled with reddish orange. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



Two ? ? ; one, the type, from U. Dagua, Colombia (VV. Kosenberg), the other 

 from Castro, Parana. This latter is much faded, but ajqiears to belong here. A 

 third smaller ? (24 mm.) from Cucuta, Venezuela, is possibly distinct ; it differs 

 in having the second line of forewings not denticulate, and only the upper of the 

 two black discal spots of hindwings. 



72. Eois alternifascia sji. nov. 



Forrivi/>f/s : rich yellow ; the costa pnrjdisli brown from base to middle fascia : 

 three oblique rosy fasciae, their edges finely deeper red and sinuous, tlie first near base 

 narrowest, tlu^ sulimarginal widest ; this last is traversed either by a deeper red line 

 or a fine yellow one, and its outer edge is generally crenulate ; fringe yellow. 



IliiHlicings : the same. 



Underside redder ; the forewings sometimes almost wholly rosy. Face and 

 vertex rosy ; thorax glossy ochreous yellow ; abdomen yellow, sprinkled with rosy 

 scales. 



Expanse of wings : 1" mm. 



Seven examples, all ? ?, from Sao I'aiilo {■<), and ('astro, I'anina (2). 



