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the patagia dorsally edged with chrome yellow; crimson tufts laterally 

 on thorax below patagia. Abdomen above crimson, the anal tufts 

 and body underneath white ; a lateral series of black spots. Fore wings 

 lilacine irrorated with black, and tinged with roseate in cell and around 

 semihyaline space; the costa crimson except on semihyaline space; 

 cilia roseate tipped with white and shaded with fuscous on intervenal 

 spaces, especially at tormus; a grayish streak irrorated with black 

 above cell from base to middle of wing; the postmedial semihyaline 

 space yellow with a few black points on veins, its outer edge slightly 

 outcurved betAveen veins 8 and 7, almost straight from 7 to 6, outbent 

 and produced three times from 6 to 3, then parallel with 3 and 

 slightly incurved to vein 5. A small antemedial chrome spot circled 

 .with black above submedian. Hind wings white, the inner margin 

 broadly flushed with roseate. 



Expanse. — ^Male 44 mm. ; female, 55mm. 



Habitat. — Volcan de Santa Maria; Purulha, Guatemala. 



Type.— Cat. No. 22420, U.S.N.M. 



HYPERTHAEMA ESCUINTLA, new species. 



Female. — Palpi red, the third joint brownish. Head, collar, and 

 thorax brown; some red at base of antennae. Abdomen above rose- 

 ate, underneath flesh color; a sublateral row of black spots, and a lat- 

 eral series of smaller spots. Fore wings reddish brown, the veins 

 faintly redder; a fuscous antemedial point below ceil, and a smaller 

 fuscous postmedial spot between veins 5 and 6. Both very indistinct. 

 Hind wigs black; some roseate hairs at base. Wings below dark 

 brown with roseate hairs at base of wings. 



Expanse. — 38 mm. 



Habitat. — Escuintla, Guatemala. 



Type.— Cat. No. 22421, U.S.N.M. 



HYPERTHAEMA SORORITA, new species. 



Female. — ^Head, thorax and fore wings red brown, the veins slightly 

 redder. Abdomen above crimson, underneath tinged with yellow; 

 two lateral small black spots. Fore wmgs: a small black antemedial 

 spot below cell with white center, and a smaller similar spot below it, 

 the two sometimes suffusing; a Avhite, black edged spot, beyond the 

 cell; some roseate hairs at base of inner margin. Hind wings fuscous 

 brown, the inner margin fringed with roseate hairs. Wings belc 

 brown, the spots on fore wing white without black edging: An irregu- 

 lar basal white spot on hmd wing and roseate hairs at base of both 

 wings. 



Expanse. — 45 mm. 



Habitat. — -Volcan de Santa Maria, Guatemala. 



Type.—C&t. No. 22422, U.S.N M. Very close to H. haemacta, 

 Schaus from Costa Rica. 



