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area with a darker cloud from costa just beyond the exterior line to the anal angle ; 

 of the submarginal spots the top four are white, the fifth black, the second and fifth 

 being much larger than the rest. 



Hindiuinr/s : with basal two-thirds dark brown, edged with paler, with a small 

 <lark cell-spot; inner margin whitish ochreous dusted with fuscous; four upper 

 marginal spots white and black, lower three black, the second and fifth being much 

 the largest. 



Head, face, and thorax dark red-brown ; abdomen more cinereous. Underside 

 dull red-brown, dusted with pale ochreous; the cell-sijots oval, dark, with pale edges ; 

 second line darker, irregular on forewings, strongly and acutely dentate on hind- 

 wings; inner margins of both wings and hindmargin of hindwings paler; costa of 

 forewings often spotted with whitish. 



Expanse of wings : 56 mm. 



A long series of both sexes from Jamaica. 



Azelina (V) nasuta sp. uov. 



Forewings : dull fuscous, with deeper suftusions ; first line dark brown, at one- 

 third, forms two rounded projections, the upper one the most prominent, and is 

 preceded by a whitish dot on the median and submedian veins; second line sinuous 

 from costa at five-sixths to inner margin at iom-i\i'ths, folloived by a whitish dot on 

 each vein ; this line is preceded by a straight oblique diffuse olive fuscous shade ; 

 marginal area with a fuscous cloud from the costa just beyond the outer line to the 

 blunt jirojectiou in the middle of the hindmargin, and with two irregular diffuse 

 clouds from the anal angle upwards ; discal spot faint, whitish ; apex produced into 

 a blunt tooth, a blunt downward projecting tooth at end of upper radial, and a blunt 

 squared tooth below the second median. 



Hindwings : like forewings in colour, with a straight dark pale-edged line at 

 two-thirds; hindmargin with a blunt tooth, as in the forewings, below the .second 

 median. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings. Underside ochreous 

 cinereous, with the cell-spots black, that in the forewings linear, in the hindwings 

 oval ; exterior line in both wings whitish, nearly straight ; marginal area beyond 

 the line fuscous, with a whitish space at the anal angle in the forewings; in the 

 forewings are two small whitish subapical marginal dots, and in tlie hindwings one 

 large white one. 



Expanse of wings : 38 mm. 



One ? in the Felder collection, without locaUty. 



Brachysema gen. nov. 



Forewings: short and broad; costa nearly straight, slightly indented at three- 

 fourths ; apex produced, pointed ; hindmargin indented just below ajiex, then strongly 

 bowed and rounded. 



Hindwings : kite-shaped, with a slight elbow in the middle of tlie hindmargin, 

 on either side of which it is straight. 



Antennae (?) minutely subserrate ; forehead fiat; pal|ii short, porrect ; tongue 

 present. 



Keitralion : cell more than half as long as wing; first median at two-thirds, 

 second close before end of cell ; radials as usual ; last four subcostals on a common 



