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vein 5 a very small black spot. Hind wings dark brown ; an outer 

 faint, fuscous, postmediai line, and a similar outer line, outwardly 

 pale edged. Wings below light ochreous brown; black points on 

 discocellular; fine postmediai darker brown lines, the outer line fine 

 fuscous, minutely lunular on hind wings. 



Expanse.— 42 mm. 



Habitat. — Departamento de Antioquia, Colombia. 



Type.— Cat. No. 22453, U.S.N.M. 



Presented by the American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York City. 



OLCECLOSTERA QUADRILINEATA, new species. 



Male. — Body pale lilacino buff irrorated with brown, chiefly on 

 collar and thorax; a dorsal brown line on collar and thorax; palpi 

 dark brown behind. Fore wings pale lilacine buft", crossed by four 

 brown lines; the costa finely dark bro^vn; antemedial line from sub- 

 costal inbent to inner margin; medial line from costa parallel; post- 

 medial slightly more remote on inner margin than on costa; fourth 

 line from termen at vein 7 to vein 2 subterminally, this line forms a 

 faint lunule between veii^s 6 and 7, but is otherwise straight. Hind 

 wings whitish broadly shaded on margins with pale lilacine buft"; 

 a straight buff medial line; postmediai defined by marginal shading; 

 subterminal small dark shades betvN^een veins 3 and 6. Wings below 

 whitish with faint pale lilacine shading; lines faintly marked; ante- 

 medial on fore wing absent. 



Habitat. — Rio Madeira, Brazil. 



Type.— Cat. No. 22454, U.S.N.M. 



Allied to 0. Tanais Druce. 



CARTHARA DEMERIDA, new species. 



Male. — Head: frons rufous shading to white on vertex; shaft of 

 antennae white, the pectinations brown streaked with white close 

 to shaft. Collar dark rufous. Thorax pale rufous brown mottled 

 with white hau-s. Abdomen pale rufous, with small dark brown 

 subdorsal spots on basal segments. Fore wings light ochre buft", 

 with rufous irrorations; a white streak on costa at base, followed by 

 antemedial and medial dark reddish brown streaks separated by 

 white scaling, and a smaller dark spot postmedially; lines very fine, 

 darker, almost imperceptible, the antemedial geminate, slightly 

 cutcurved across cell, the postmediai, geminate, wavily lunular; 

 a fine dark streak across discocellular, cilia dark brown. Hind 

 wings pale rufous, dark streaks on inner margin; dark rufous shading 

 at anal angle. Fore wings below rufous darkest at apex, the inner 

 margin yellow; costa yellowish, the dark spots very small; some 

 whitish shading at middle of outer margin. Hind wings below 

 rufous, the costa shaded with dark gray; a black streak on discocel- 



