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(ilive fulvous excejit along liiiid ami inner margin ; tlie outer and submargiual lines 

 lilain, black-brown, the apical blotches forming a small dark triangle. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings; ontside of palpi, tip of the frontal 

 cone, collar, and base of shoulders brown. 



Expanse of wings : '.is rum. 



1 (S from Sapucay, near Villa Rica, Paraguay, June 19U1 (Foster). 



288. Caripeta interalbicans spec. nov. 

 Foiriciiig : pale yellowish ochreous, mostly overlaid with rusty salmon-colour 

 and reddish orauge ; these darker tints run along the veins leaving the intervals 

 pale ; costal edge finely ochreous ; irregular ochreous streaks along the two folds 

 and inner margin, mixed with a few coarse dark scales ; a central fascia somewhat 

 darker, edged by diffuse brown lines ; first line from one-third of costa, angled out- 

 wards on median veiu, incurved on snbmedian fold, and again oblique outwards to 

 before middle of inner margin ; outer line from four-fifths of costa, oblique inwards 

 and forming a deep sinus beyond cell, a beak outwards between veins 4 and 3, and 

 another deep sinns on submedian fold, to four-fifths of inner margin ; cell-spot 

 dark brown lielow, ochreous above, followed by a dark brownish shade ; the reddish 

 horizontal marks on the veins narrow towards hindmargiu and the jtale intervals 

 corresi3ondingly wider; the fringe yellow ochreous with grey patches beyond 

 veins ; traces of a snbmarginal line of elongated lunules from close before apex, 

 marked by a few olive scales, those between veins 2 and 3, and 3 and 4, slightly 

 filled up with olive. 



Bimlwing : whitish ochreous at base, beyond middle flushed with orange, 

 deeper along the veins, and wholly orange along hindmargin ; a few olive scales 

 towards base and along inner margin, and a slight cell-spot ; fringe pale ochreous. 



Underside whitish ochreous ; costa of both wings, hindmargins, and ends of 

 veins sandy-yellow ; veins towards margin marked by pinkish grey wedge-shaped 

 marks ; the dark edges of central fascia showing through on forewiug ; the hindwing 

 with a dull grey wavy postmedian line and cell-spot. 



Head and thorax ochreous, the shoulders and patagia somewhat yellower ; 

 abdomen cinereous. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



1 ? from South Park, Colorado, August 1901 (Oslar). 



Whether this represents a distinct species, or is only another of many variable 

 forms of aretaria Wlk., must be left till many more examples are available for 

 comparison than exist at present. None of the forms seem to be really common. 



289. Certima canisparsa spec. nov. 



Forewing : reddish testaceous, thickly striated with fuscous, these striae 

 encroaching on the white costal edge ; a brown curved shade at one-third, more or 

 less mixed with whitish scales, and slightly darker marked on the veins ; exterior 

 line of black spots tipped with white aud below the middle accompanied by a band 

 of white scales, preceded by a straight brown oblique line parallel to hindmargin, 

 and becoming obsolete at vein G ; fringe reddish ; cell-spot black. 



Hindwing : without first line. 



Underside whitish, washed with pale brown, thickly black-speckled ; a sub- 

 marginal reddish-fuscous cloud from costa to below middle, much broader in 

 forewing ; a fine black marginal line ; fringe rufous. 



