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wings: A vertical antemedial line; postmedial outcurved; subter- 

 minal faintly indicated by fine darker shadings. 



Expanse. — 23 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayenne, French Guiana. 



TyiJe.—Cat. No. 19815, U.S.N.M. 



MEGATOMIS HERMIA, new species. 



Female. — Body and wmgs piu-plish slate color. Fore wings: 

 Antemedial line white, preceded by a bright brown shade; cell and 

 medial space below it dark brown; orbicular small, white; reniform 

 linear, white, continuing as a white line to inner margin, followed 

 by a bright brown shade; some buff brown irrorations oncosta; a sub- 

 terminal fuscous brown irregular shade; postmedial line dark brown 

 only traceable on costa; termen paler shaded, interrupted by a 

 brown shade at vein 4; a dark terminal line. Hind wings: A medial 

 white line as on fore wings, preceeded by a dark brown shade; a darker 

 outer line, outangled at vein 5, then incurved to near medial line, 

 limiting the dark shadings; veins terminally broadly darker slate 

 color. Fore wings below yellow brown to postmedial fine dark line, 

 striated with darker brown; inner margin greyish; outer space fus- 

 cous grey; a sub terminal faint v/hitish line followed by small black 

 spots above veins 6 and 7 ; a terminal white shade below apex and at 

 vein 3. Hind wings below fuscous grey irrorated with white; medial 

 and postmedial lines fine, dark brown, edging a broad yellow brown 

 space; sub terminal fine, whitish, partly edged with dark brown 

 shading. 



Expanse. — 19 mm. 



//a&i^al— Cayenne, French Guiana. 



Type.— C^i. No. 19816, U.S.N.M. 



Genus TARISTA Sehaus. 



Tarista Schaus, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 11, 1913, p. 23. 



Male. — Palpi upturned, second joint fringed with hair above, 

 third joint very short. Antennae pubescent ciliate with raised tuft 

 about middle of shaft. Fore tibiae and tarsi with long tufts of hair. 

 Fore wings narrow; vein 3 before lower angle; 4 and 5 from lower 

 angle; 6 below upper angle; areole narrow; 7, 8, and 9 on long stalk, 

 10 from end of areole; 11 free. Hind wings: Veins 3 and 4, and 6 and 

 7 from angles; 5 from near lower angle. 



Type of genus. — Tarista morosa Schaus. 



The genus includes also: 



Tarista nigrirenalis (Bleptina) Guenee, Delt. et P^n^al, 1854, p. 68. 

 =-Rcnia lytocalis Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., vol. 19, 1859, p. 881. 



