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wavy terminal line. Hind wing whitish, the margins sufTused with 

 smoky gray, broader from apex to vein 3; ciha white. Fore wing 

 below silvery white, with postmedial dark suffusions at costa. Hind 

 wing below silvery white. 



Expanse, 42 mm. 



Habitat. — Santa Catharina, Brazil. 



T^/pe.— U.S.N.M. no. 34709. 



Ten paratypes in collection. 



Genus MERAGISA Schaus 



MERAGISA GLACIDIA. new species 



Male. — Head and collar white with some grayish hairs. Abdomen 

 black, overlapped at base with drab hairs; terminal segment white 

 with fine grayish irrorations; a fine dark and irregular subbasal line; 

 antemedial line black, double on costa, then outbent, below costa 

 wavily downbent, fine, partly indicated by black scales; medial line 

 very faint with a dark point in cell; postmedial Una double on costa, 

 preceded on costa by a short fuscous streak, outbent and fine, joining 

 the subterminal irregular lunular line; terminal line deeply limular 

 from apex, below vein 3 with the lunules wider apart; ciUa white. 

 Hind wing hair brown on termen, the disk u'ith pale greenish suffusions, 

 the cilia white. Fore wing below yellowish white on base and inner 

 margin, the outer space broadly hair brown, the costal edge and cilia 

 white. Hind wing below yellowish white, the costal margin and ter- 

 men suffused Avith dark olive-buff. 



Expanse, 48 mm. 



Habitat. — Espirito Santo, Brazil. 



Ty^e.— U.S.N.M. no. 34728. 



MERAGISA NICOLASI. new species 



Male. — Head, collar, and thorax white mottled with Ught mouse- 

 gray hairs. Abdomen above at base avallaneous, the following three 

 segments fuscous with paler transverse lines, the terminal segments 

 white, underneath white. Fore wing, white with some fine black 

 and brownish irrorations; a fine dark angled line on costa subbasally; 

 a small black lunule on costa antemedially, a point medially, paired 

 black spots postmedially, and three points subterminally on costa; 

 a shght black streak on discocellular ; small postmedial lunules be- 

 tween veins 2 and 3 and veins 4 and 6 ; a deep black lunular fine on 

 termen; cilia white. Hind wing grayish oHve, the inner margin 

 broadly mustard yellow, the ciUa white, wings below light grayish 

 olive, the fore wing with the base and inner margin, the costa narrowly 



