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wise white. Abdomen rose color, darker at base dorsally, the anal 

 hairs white; tarsi brown, streaked with black and mottled with white 

 hairs. Fore wings rose color, shaded with white on basal half of 

 inner margin; cilia white; a row of black points, four from end of 

 cell to inner margin, one above vein 5, and one above vem 6; the 

 costal margin crimson. Hind wings rose color, the cilia white. 

 Wings below rose color, the cilia white. 



Expanse. — 32 mm. 



Habitat. — Quirigua, Guatemala. 



Type.-^&t. No. 22481, U.S.N.M. 



VESCOA GLUTINA. new species. 



Male. — ^Antennae with the shaft white, the pectinations light 

 bro^^^l. Frons, collar in front, and thorax light brown; vertex, 

 collar behind, and patagia white. Abdomen above fuscous broAMi, 

 underneath white. Fore wmgs light browTi, the cilia white; a fine 

 white streak below cell, and one^below costa at apex; a white spot at 

 base of inner margin from which a better defined sinuous white line 

 extends above submedian to tornus, but is slightly interrupted before 

 reaching it. Hind wings light brown, the inner margin and cilia 

 white; faint ternunal white streaks between the veins. Wings below 

 white; the cell and costal margin of fore wings light brown. 



Expanse. — 18 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayuga, Guatemala. 



Type.—€&t. No. 22482, U.S.N.M. 



MEGALOPYGE CHACONA, new species. 



Male. — ^Antennae black brown. Head bro^vnish yellow; collar 

 and thorax fuscous, the hair on collar tipped behind with brownish 

 yellow and some similar hairs laterally on thorax. Abdomen brown- 

 ish yellow, the anal segment fuscous ; very indistinct dark segmental 

 lines. Fore wings fuscous, shaded with gray about tornus; veins all 

 white; a white shade at end of cell, joined by a postmedial white 

 shade from costa, partly cutting off a portion of the dark ground 

 color; postmedial intervenal white streal^. Hind wings white; 

 fuscous scaling on inner margin; terminal space broadly fuscous, cut 

 by white veins. Underneath the white predominates, leaving the 

 base and terminal space fuscous, the latter cut by white veins. 



Expanse. — 30 mm. 



Habitat. — Chaco, Argentina. 



Type.— Ceit. No. 22483, U.S.N.M. 



Kmdly sent to me by Don Pedro Jorgensen, close to M. uruguaij- 



ensis Berg. 



Family LIMACODIDAE. 



PARASA MAYSI, new species. 



Male. — Antennae and frons light brown; vertex, collar, and thorax 

 green; abdomen brown. Fore wings brown, the vems faintly darker; 



