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gray; the tornal space mth some white points; a subterminal black 

 line from costa cm-ved to termen below apex; cilia white with black 

 points. Hind wing fuscous wdth subterminal black streaks; inner 

 margin narrowly white. Fore wing below ecru-olive with darker 

 medial and postmedial bands cut by veins, the termen also darker; 

 inner margin broadly white; the costa narrowly white at base; cilia 

 white with black points as above. Hind wing below paler; a medial 

 and postmedial series of small darker points, the termen broadly 

 darker. 



Expanse: 100 mm. 



Habitat. — Valera, Venezuela. 



Type.—V.S.^M. No. 34754. 



PROTOPARCE HUASCARA, new species 



Male. — Palpus and front of head fuscous with lighter shading; 

 head posteriorly with short white streaks. Palpus below with gray- 

 ish and fuscous streaks, collar chaetura drab tipped posteriorly with 

 whitish, patagia covering thorax pale purplish gray, with some white 

 mottling and dark lines; base of abdomen deep purplish gray, some- 

 what paler on medial segments, the three terminal segments pale 

 purplish gray, some dark segmental lines on medial segments, a black 

 subdorsal u'regular line, somewhat dentate on basal segments en- 

 closing large white spots followed by a lateral wavy white line; 

 abdomen below white with grayish mottling terminally. Fore wing: 

 Base of costa with black spots ; two small white spots at base in and 

 below cell, followed by black scaling; an antemedial grayish space, 

 incurved from costa, outwardly edged by a double sinuous black line, 

 partly filled in with wood brown, well inbent and ending in a dark 

 shade on inner margin; a medial dark olive-buff shade partly black- 

 edged and parallel with the antemedial double line, this fascia followed 

 by a broad whitish space crossed by two narrow lunular lines, well 

 incurved and reduced to one below vein 4 ; the subterminal line black, 

 very fine on costa followed by a triangular dark patch; large oblique 

 light gray spots from apex below vein 5 a terminal irregular dark 

 space abruptly downbent and expanding as a broad black line to 

 inner margin at tornus and outwardly broadly edged with white. 

 Hind wing black, the costal margin white not reaching termen; a 

 white streak along inner margin ; a short white streak above anal angle, 

 above it a faint grayish spot. Fore wing below: Costal margin 

 grayish on basal half; inner margin white; termen broadly benzo 

 brown; medial space benzo brown crossed by a fuscous line; a broad 

 postmedial brownish gray shade crossed by an indistinct subterminal 

 line. Hind wing below yellowish white; termen broadly benzo 

 brown and a similar narrower fascia; a macular narrow dark line, 

 the markings at anal angle as above. 



