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fuscous gray; discal spot of underside visible; a fuscous postmedial 

 lino, edged with yellow toward anal angle; traces of a pale dentate 

 subterminal line. Hind wings below gray, irrorated with brown on 

 costa; discal spot large, black; postmedial finely lunular; subterminal 

 pale. 



Expanse. — 31 mm. 



Habitat. — Aroa, Venezuela. 



Type.— Cat. No. 19769, U.S.N.M. 



Near M. Mppocoon Schaus. 



Genus NEOPALTHIS Druce. 



Neopalthis Druck, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Het., vol. 1, 1891, p. 475, pi. 39, Hgs. 16, 

 16a, 17, 17rt. 



Male. — Palpi slightly upcurved, very long; second joint fringed 

 above; tliird joint thickly scaled; antennae fasciculate. Fore wings: 

 Acute; costa arched before apex; outer margin oblique; veins, 3, 4, 5 

 near together from lower angle; 6 from upper angle; areole narrow, 

 7 from end; 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 free. Hind wings: Outer margin 

 oblique, angled at vein 2; veins 3 and 4 stalked; 5 close to lower 

 angle; 6 and 7 shortly stalked. 



Type of genus. — Neopalthis madates Druce. 



DECTOCRASPEDON, new genus. 



Male. — AntennsB pubescent with long cilia. Palpi upturned, second 

 joint very long, third one-fourth the length of second, both fringed 

 above. Legs smooth. Fore wings: Costa arched; apex acute; outer 

 margin produced and angled at vein 4, oblique below it; vein 3 close 

 to lower angle; 4 from lower angle; 5 close to lower angle; 6 below 

 upper angle; 7 from arcoh;; 8, 9, 10 on long stalk from areole; 11 free. 

 Hind wings produced below apex; veins 3 and 4 from lower angle; 

 5 well above lower angle; 6 and 7 from upper angle. 



Type of genus.— Dectocraspedon hrazilicnsis Schaus. 



Goniapteryx f morada Felder and Rogenhofer, Reise Novara, 1873, 

 pi. 120, fig. 26, probably belongs here. 



DECTOCRASPEDON BHAZILIENSIS, new species. 



Male. — Palpi fuscous outwardly. Body and wings grayish ocher 

 or brownish ocher, the latter thinly darker irrorated with striae and 

 with a few black dots. Fore wings: Antemedial and medial lines 

 fuscous brown, angled on subcostal and wavily inbcnt; orbicular a 

 white point; reniform a small black spot; outer line bright brown 

 outwardly edged with yellowish, outangled on costa, then faintly 

 sinuous to inner margin near tornus; a subterminal fuscous spot 

 between veins 5 and 6; small fuscous marginal spots suffusing from 

 vein 3 to inner margin; cilia fuscous with a pale line at base and 

 partly white tipped. Hind wings: A black discal point; postme- 



