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BLEPTINA NIVEIGUTTA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi fuscous brown with a few pale hairs. Plead, collar, 

 and thorax dark olive brown. Abdomen above fuscous, underneath 

 grayish white. Wings bright bro\vn, the lines dark; antemedial and 

 postmedial lines fine, the latter minutely lunular; a broad dark 

 purple medial fascia, its inner edge straight; a sub terminal line 

 indicated by darker shading on either side, broader on inner edge; 

 marginal brown black points. Fore wings: A large reniform indi- 

 cated by some interrupted white edging. Hind wings : A large snow 

 white discal point. 



Allied to B. olivescens Warren, B. lasaea Druce, and B. latona 

 Schaus. 



Expanse. — 29 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayemie, French Guiana. 



Type.—C^i. No. 19837, U.S.N.M. 



BLEPTINA EMINENS, new species. 



Female. — Body lilacine; palpi, collar, and shoulders shaded with 

 pale brownish; a similar dorsal shade on abdomen near base. Wings 

 lilacine, shaded with gray on outer margins; marginal black points, 

 and fine terminal line. Fore wings: Some reddish subbasal scaling; 

 antemedial reddish line vertical, inset in cell, outcurved below it, 

 outbent on inner margin; a dark medial shade on costa, fuie red 

 line in cell, and fuscous line below it, followed in cell by a thick white 

 line, then a yellowish shade edged with red irrorations, and an 

 annular cluster of reddish scales; postmedial outcurved, fine, dark 

 reddish brown, closely followed from veins 7 to 3 by a fine fuscous 

 line, suffusing at vein 3 and approximated to medial line; a fuie 

 whitish gray subterminal line, preceded by a fuscous shade between 

 veins 6 and 8 ; a terminal fuscous shade between veins 7 and 8. Hind 

 wings; medial reddish irrorations crossing a large round yellowish 

 white discal spot; postmedial lino darker red, upcurved at vein 2. 

 Hind wings below white, thinly irrorated with gray, more so on costal 

 margin; a marginal fuscous shade at apex; marginal black points. 



Expanse. — 27 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayenne, French Guiana. 



Type.— Cut No. 19838, U.S.N.M. 



Since preparing the above description I have found a male of this 

 species. It is smaller, expanse 20 mm., duller and darker in tone, 

 the white line across cell more pronounced. The palpi have the 

 fringe on second joint in front much longer; the third joint is heavily 

 fringed behind except at tip. 



