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shade; a white point on discocellular; a fine geminate, lunular, post- 

 medial line, indistinct and scarcely darker than ground color; small 

 sub terminal semiliy aline black spots between veins 4 and 7. Hind 

 wings brown; inner margin Avhite with white cilia; the produced 

 anal angle darker shaded. Wings below bone color shaded with 

 brown terminally. Forewings: the postmedial lines straighter, 

 brown; the sub terminal spots as above. Hind wings: some scattered 

 black points; a black spot on discocellular; two brown outer lines, 

 lunular, dentate. 



Expanse. — 30 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Jean, French Guiana. 



Type.— Cat. No. 22461, U.S.N.M. 



EPIA PICTA, new species. 



Male. — Body rufous; palpi in front yellow on second joint; antennae 

 light brown, the shaft irrorated with white; coEar mottled behind 

 with white hairs; a few white irrorations on patagia. Forevcings: 

 base of costa rufous, below it a lilacine shade mottled with brown; 

 basal half of inner margin light brown; a yellowish streak belov/ cell 

 and vein 2 to near termen cut by the rufous lines; a rufous streak 

 below this broadening to inner margin on outer half; a dark brov^^n 

 shade in cell antemedially, extending as a dull gray shade between 

 veins 2 and 3 to termen; above this in cell and betvreen veins 3 and 4 

 a lilacine gray shade suffusing with a similar broad outer shade from 

 costa, leaving a triangular brownish shade on costa within the post- 

 medial line; antemedial line outcurved, wav}^ dark red; a dark 

 medial line below vein 2 ; postmedial slightly lunular, dark red from 

 veins 5 to 7, and below vein 2 fine, grayish and hardly perceptible 

 on the pale portion of wing; a fine deeph^ lunular outer dark gray line; 

 some subterminal rufous spots, and a small white spot between veins 

 2 and 3; termen shaded with dark gray from below vein 6; the tornus 

 rufous. Hind wings rufous brown, becoming dark red at anal angle; 

 the two outer lines fine, fuscous, separated b}^ a yellov,' shade near 

 inner margin; inner margin fuscous brown with white irrorations, 

 Forewings below pale reddish, the inner margin broadly 3^ellowish 

 white; the costa ochreous yellow; postmedial line straight, fuscous 

 brown and thick, from costa to vein 4; outer line finer, lunulate; apex 

 yellow; termen dark rufous. Hind vrings below puri.lish, the base 

 and costal margin rufous; postmedial line almost straight, the outer 

 line finer, lunular. 



Female. — Body and wings paler rufous; abdomen with darker 

 subdorsal lines. Fore wings: a grayish purple shade between veins 

 2 and 4 from cell to termen; white irrorations on costal margin and 

 broadly at apex; costa ochreous yellow; a faint fuscous postmedial 

 line, finely lunular and hardly inbent. Hind wings: anal angle 



