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lique, pear-shaped, outlined in orange brown. Hind wings slightly 

 angled before anal angle, which is obtuse. Hind wings below dark 

 brown irrorated with whitish gray, forming a subterminal line ; a dark 

 discal point, and curved postmedial line. 



The tuft of antennae is small; the palpi upcurved, the 2d joint 

 reaching above vertex, the 3d half as long as 2d, both fringed behind; 

 the 2d with short fringe in front. 



Expanse. — 31 mm. 



Ilahitat. — Espiritu Santo, Brazil. 



Type.— Cat. No. 19714, U. S. N. M. 



THURSANIA VOODOALIS, new species. 



Male. — Body and fore wings ocherous brown shaded with fuscous. 

 Fore wings: Fuscous spots on costa at origin of lines; basal and ante- 

 medial lines very faint; a small white orbicular spot; medial sliade 

 narrow, fuscous ; renif orm consisting of a white line with small black 

 spots at each end; postmedial fine, fuscous, wavy, outcurved beyond 

 cell, but slightly inbent opposite cell, outwardly pale shaded ; subter- 

 minal ocherous, defined by fuscous shading, which expands on inner 

 side toward costa; a terminal fuscous lunular line. Hind wings dull 

 grayish brown; lines minutely wavy, fuscous, the medial only on 

 inner margin, the postmedial outwardly pale edged; the subterminal 

 whitish ocher defined by dark shadings. Hind wings below white, 

 the costal and outer margins broadly suffused with gray brown; the 

 lines as above, better defined ; a dark discocellular line. 



Expanse. — 21 mm. 



Ilahitat. — Baracoa, Cuba. 



Type.— Cat. No. 19715, U.S.N.M. 



Comes nearest T. decocta Schaus. 



THURSANIA HOBSONALIS, new species. 



Male. — Palpi: Second joint light brown; Third joint fuscous. 

 Head, coUar, and thorax brown, the spatulate scales tipped with whitish 

 gray. Abdomen brown, more darkly iiTorated, shaded with white 

 at base dorsally, and with fine segmental fuscous lines. Fore wings 

 bone color shaded with ocherous brown ; lines and costa fuscous gray, 

 the lines black on costa; basal line partly obsolete; antemedial fine, 

 vertical; medial shade slightly inbent, closely following the small 

 white orbicular spot; reniform large, white, containing two black 

 points; postmedial fine, outcurved beyond cell; a broad dark sub- 

 terminal irregular shade, divided by a pale line; terminal black spots. 

 Cilia mottled whitish and gray. Hind wings dull bro\^^^ish gray; 

 some whitish mottlings on inner margin; lines pale, faintly indicated, 

 not reaching costa. Hind wings below white irrorated with brown; 

 a brown discocellular line, and wcU marked postmedial line. The 

 palpi have a triangular tuft behind at end of 2d joint; the 3d joint has 



