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HYLESIA TINTUREX, new species. 



Male. — Palpi and frons brown. Thorax ocherous brown. Ab- 

 domen ocherous yellow. Thorax below and legs brownish gray, a 

 small yellow tuft at base of fore tarsi. Wings dull roseate lilacine. 

 Fore wings: A faint whitish antemedial line, vertical to median vein, 

 slightly incurved and outbent below cell; a dark streak on discocel- 

 lular; a postmedial dark line almost vertical; term en irregularly 

 paler. Hind wings darker shaded along inner margin and on dis- 

 cocellular; a postmedial broad line and termen paler. Hind wings 

 below with a broad dark medial line. 



Expanse. — 34 mm. 



Habitat. — Quirigua, Guatemala. 



Type.— -Cat. No. 23421, U.S.N.M. 



Apex of fore wing not produced. 



HYLESIA CHIREX, new species. 



Male. — Frons reddish. Vertex reddish brown. Collar and thorax 

 lilacine brown. Abdomen above thickly clothed with dark yellow 

 hairs and with black segmental lines, underneath reddish brown. 

 Tarsi cinnamon. Wings dull roseate lilacine with darker lines. Fore 

 wings: An oblique medial line suffusing on inner margin with the 

 vertical postmedial line, a dark line on discocellular; a wavy, faintly 

 paler subterminal shade. Hind wings: A straight postmedial line, 

 a faintly wavy darker postmedial shade. Wings below similar in 

 color; fore wings with a darker postmedial shade and a subterminal 

 dentate darker shade; hind wings with the postmedial line broader 

 and from nearer apex; a straight subterminal shade. 



Expanse. — 40 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayuga, Guatemala. 



Type— Cat. No. 23422, U.S.N.M. 



The apex of forewing slightly produced and rounded. 



HYLESIA CROEX, new species. 



Male. — -Head and thorax dark gray. Abdomen brownish yellow 

 above, underneath dark gray. Fore tibiae fringed with ocherous, the 

 fore tarsi dark gray. Wings rather thinly scaled, dull gray, the lines 

 whitish gray. Fore wings: Antemedial vertical, somewhat sinuous, 

 postmedial broadest on costa faintly inbent from vein 6 to inner 

 margin ; a pale shade at apex ; a similar shade outbent from vein 6 to 

 termen at vein 3, then broadly along termen to tornus; a dark shade 

 on discocellular. Hind wings: A broad postmedial line; the termen 

 broadly pale ; a small dark shade on discocellular. 



Expanse. — 35 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayuga, Guatemala. 



Type.— Cat. No. 23423, U.S.N.M. 



Apex of forewing not produced. 



