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at tlie iiuiil unfile some (lark hrowu spots separated by wliitisli sbades. Under- 

 neath the primaries are bronzed ; tlie costal margin buff streaked with brown 

 and spotted with white near the apex; the outer margin buff, streaked with 

 brown. The secondaries underneath whitish, the costal margin buff mottled 

 with dark brown scales; a terminal brown line surmounted by small brown 

 spots; a median and an outer transverse series of dark streaks on the veins, the 

 median series being only visible near the costal and inner margins; a brown 

 discal spot. Expanse 40 mm. 

 Hab. — Peru. 



0|>lii»<>iiia Ic'cta sji. nov. — Body brown. Primaries above with the base 

 light l)rown, the outer portion of the wing dark brown, the two shades separated 

 by a fine, inwardly curved, white, median line; some apical white .scales. Sec- 

 ondaries dark brown, the fringe sligluly tinged with reddish. Underneath dark 

 gray: a lunular, transverse, brown outer line, beyond which the margins are 

 brown sliaded with gray, and with a tei'minal row of white spots. Exp. 4.'5 mm. 

 Hab. — Castro, Parana. 



I*liui'y?* iiio.Yst sp. nov. — Body gray. Primaries above gray, thinly speckled 

 with darker scales, the t. a. line slightly oblique, dark brown, preceded by a 

 small black spot below the submedian vein, and beyond the line the snbmedian 

 is heavily shaded with black ; the median space crossed by .several rows of dark 

 lunular lines; the t. p. line slightly curved, inwardly yellow, bordered with 

 darker scales and followed by a darker shade extending to a subterminal row of 

 diirk spots indistinctly connected by an angular line; the outer margin paler, 

 with some terminal, dark, lunular spots. Secondaries light brown, becoming 

 darker towards the outer margin, the entreme portion of which is grayish. 

 Undertieath light brown, slightly iridescent. Expanse 37 mm. 



Hab. — Jalapa, Mexico. 



The orbicular represented l)y a yellowisli dot, the reniforni indis- 

 tinct, laterally shaded with darker gray. 



Beildis geiitiliM sp. nov. — Palpi and h'-ad l)rown. Thorax gray. Abdo- 

 men brown. Primaries above gray along the inner and outer margins, otherwise 

 mottled with brown, and everywiiere there are slightly darker, indistinct, trans- 

 verse striiE and black flecks; the t. a. line distinct, dark, crossing a small spot 

 below the me<lian vein ; a median shade very similar to the t. a. line and crossing 

 a quadrate black spot between the orbicular and reniforni : the t. p. line reddish 

 brown, geminate, forming an angle near the costa, all the anterior portion of the 

 line crossing a blackish shade, which extends from the reniforni to the s. t. line ; 

 the s. t. consisting of a row of black spots, followed by an indistinct, grayish, 

 lunular line; a fine, terminal, wavy line; the fringe brownish gray. Tlie secon- 

 daries gray brown ; an outer wavy brown line followed by a row of black spots 

 near the anal angle. Underneath yellowish gray, an outer transverse shade and 

 minute black discal point on the secondaries. Expanse 33 mm. 



Hab. — Paso de San Juan, Mexico. 



BeiKliM lufiiis sp. nov. — Body brown. Primaries above brown, witii a 

 large dark brown .spot on the costal margin between the t. p. and s. t. lines, on 

 which are three white dots on the extreme margin; the basal and t. a. lines 

 wavy, dark brown; a dark brown median line; the t. p. line very fine, wavy, 

 interrupted, curving deeply in, nearly reaching the median line, and shaded 



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