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small fuscous spot at anal angle. Fore wings below white; a fuscous 

 shade at end of cell to subcostal vein, followed by a gray shade to 

 apex; the costa whitish buff. Hind wings below entirely white. 



Expanse. — ^37 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayuga, Guatemala. 



Type.— Cat. No. 22474, U.S.N.M. 



Comes nearest D. centralis Herrich-Schaffer. 



DICENTEIA MARIMBA, new species. 



Male. — -Palpi and frons whitish buff; neck behind dark brown. 

 Collar and thorax lilacine brown. Abdomen above dark brownish 

 gi-ay, the anal segment dorsally shaded with whitish buff. Fore wings 

 mostly brownish gray, the veins iiTorated with black and white; base 

 of costa and cell darker, browner; cell otherwise and a shade below 

 cell pale olive buff' with darker irrorations; an antemedial fine, darker, 

 geminate line, outcurved across cell; a brown line on discocellular 

 edged with white, followed by a fuscous brown streak between veins 

 4 and 5 to postmedial; postmedial very deeply outcurved beyond 

 cell, lunular dentate, geminate from costa to vein 4, then single 

 followed by dark points on veins; outer margin darker shaded with 

 faint traces of a subterminal line; small marginal white spots above 

 and below vein 2; small dark spots from above vein 3 to costa; cilia 

 dark brown with buff spots at interspaces. Hind wings white thinly 

 scaled, the veins terminally fuscous brown, with an interrupted 

 similar terminal line; a dark spot at anal angle reaching vein 2; a 

 dark streak in fold of inner margin, separated from anal spot by a 

 small chalk white spot; cilia white except at anal angle. Fore wings 

 below white shaded with dark grayish brown along costa and above 

 vein 5 to subcostal. Hind wings below white; some fuscous brown 

 shading at anal angle extending on cilia. 



Expanse — 36 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayuga, Guatemala. 



Type.—Csit. No. 22475, U.S.N.M. 



The female of this species was erroneously described as the female 

 of D. liraosoides Schaus.* 



DICENTRIA LERMA, new species. 



Male. — 'Palpi whitish; frons mottled pale buff and brown. Vertex, 

 collar, thorax, and abdomen above fuscous brown, the anal segment 

 dorsally shaded with light brown; abdomen underneath creamy 

 white. Fore wings dark brownish gray; base naiTowly black brown; 

 a fine black streak below cell; a fine black streak in cell expanding 

 at discocellular and extending as a thick black line along vein 5 

 to termen; very faint traces of medial lines; abroad darker medial 



1 Am. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8, vol. 7, 1891, p. 270. 



