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bro\vii black; cilia at apex and tornus white; a narrow postmediai 

 \diite band from costa, slightly curved to outer margin at tornus. 

 Hind wings black shot with dark blue; cilia white. Underneath: 

 fore wings black streaked with blue below costa and cell, the post- 

 medial white line as above; hind wings black shot with blue on basal 

 half; a very small red spot on costa postmedially, followed by a series 

 of minute white spots, straight to below vein 3 then inbent. 



Expanse. — -60 mm. 



Habitat. — Eseuintla, Guatemala. 



Type.— Cat. No. 22450, U.S.N.M. 



Allied to E. pylotis, Drury; but the white line much narrower; 

 underneath the markings have a tendency toward E. excellens Walker. 



Family EUPTEROTIDAE. 



APATELODES SUBLUNULATA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi pale brown; frons light brownish gray; antennae, 

 vertex, tegulae and patagia whitish gray with scattered black irro- 

 rations; thorax pale brown; abdomen light brownish gray with dark 

 irrorations basally and terminally; abdomen below with fuscous seg- 

 mental lines and irrorations. Fore wings Vvhitish gra}^ with black 

 irrorations and light brownish shadings; the basal shadings restricted 

 by a whitish shade from costa oblique to median, inangled, perpen- 

 dicular to submedian and more clearly white, then inbent, through- 

 out shaded outwardly with fuscous; a medial wavy fuscous line; the 

 space between these lines and beyond medial line brown shaded; a 

 whitish spot at end of cell; postmediai line slightly wavy, oblique on 

 costa, slightly incurved below cell, followed by a parallel and more 

 distinct crenidate line, both lines partly shaded outwardly with light 

 browTi; a subterminal vrhite shade narrow on costa broader and some- 

 v/hat crenulate from vein 3 to inner margin, indistinct opposite cell 

 where it is followed by a dark spot; termen and cilia brown shaded; a 

 fine terminal black line and fuscous shadings on cilia especially at 

 apex. Hind wings whitish ocher; a brown line on discoceUular; a 

 geminate fine outer line defining a clearer white shade, and surmounted 

 on inner margin by a brown shade defined by fuscous ; some scattered 

 dark scales on terminal space and cilia; the cilia dark shaded at anal 

 angle. Fore wings below pale brown, darkest just beyond cell; costal 

 margin white with some dark irrorations; inner margin whitish; a 

 small white spot at end of cell; postmediai line ciu-ved around end of 

 cell, fine, dark, followed by a fine crenulate line; a subapical fine 

 whitish streak; veins terminally, a terminal line and cilia mostly fus- 

 cous brown, the latter with pale spots. Hind wings below mostly 

 light brown shaded with fuscous brown in and beyond cell; a narrow 

 vv^hitish spot at end of cell; costa and inner margin medially from below 

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