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Fore wing below vinaceous-drab, the costal edge finely pale vinaceous, 

 also the termen below apex, the inner margin whitish. Hind wing 

 below partly white, the costal margin and termen shghtly vinaceous. 



The female differs only in the white shading at costa before the post- 

 medial hne, and a short white streak at apex, this variability existing 

 no doubt in both sexes. 



Expanse, male 33 mm., female 34 mm. 



Habitat. — Itatiaya Est do Rio, Brazil. 



JVpe.— U.S.N.M. no. 34704. 



Genus SALLUCA Schaas 



SALLUCA DURANl, new species 



Male. — Head and collar mottled vinaceous-fawn and wood brown; 

 thorax fuscous concealed by the white patagia; abdomen above fawn 

 color with paler transverse lines; anal hairs seashell pink; thorax 

 below and abdomen wliite, the latter with dark, fine, transverse lines. 

 Fore wing light buff, the markings cinnamon-buff; an antemedial out- 

 curved series of small spots; a less intensive series of medial spots, 

 the space between these two lines buff pink; a small white crescent, 

 darkly edged, at end of cell; an irregular series of small, subterminal, 

 triangular points; cilia with wliite spots on interspaces. Hind wing 

 fight buff, the margins broadly vinaceous-fawn. Wings below whitish 

 buff, the apex of fore wing suffused with vinaceous-fawn. 



Expanse, 40 mm. 



Habitat. — Hansa Humboldt, Santa Catharina, Brazil. 



Type. — U.S.N.M. no. 34705; also a paratype in the collection. 



Closely alfied to S. schausi Dognin. 



SALLUCA DEFXECTANS. new species 



Male. — Palpi black, fringed with roseate and clay color, the vertex 

 partly fuscous; coUar anteriorly pinkish buff, posteriorly deep greenish 

 olive; thorax white thickly irrorated with sorghum brown. Abdomen 

 above dorsally army brown, paler laterally, the middle segments with 

 paler transverse fines, the last segments and underneath pinkish buff. 

 Fore wing with a fuscous fine at base of costa, below it a whitish lino 

 upbent to costa, along which it extends to near apex, mediaUy expand- 

 ing to a triangular space edged below with buffy olive, the inner 

 margin and termen paler; subtenninal dark points on interspaces; a 

 dark-angled terminal line mostly finely edged by pale lines proximaUy ; 

 cifia with olive-brown spots. Hind wing with inner margin tawny- 

 olive; costa and a postmedial line from costa to anal angle aveUaneous 

 cut by the veins; termen broadly buffy brown; cilia whitish. Fore 

 wing below dark olive-buff suffused ^\dth light cinnamon-drab, the 



