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Genus CHADISRA Walker 



CHADISRA SELAN A, new species 



Male. — Hetid, collar, and thorax mottled mouse gray, wliite, and 

 fuscous, the patagia with white predominating, the collar, and the 

 patagia outwardly, edged with black. Abdomen above dark \TJia- 

 ceous-gray with paler transverse lines, the anal hairs pale drab-graj'"; 

 imderncath pale drab-gray with smoke-gray transverse lines. Fore 

 wing with the medial space and tornus silvery white irrorated with 

 light drab; some white at base edged by a sinuous thick black sub- 

 basal line, double on costa; base of costa to antemedial benzo brown, 

 the antemedial black, sinuous, incurved from costa, and excurved 

 below vein 3 to below vein 2, forming two prominent lunules to inner 

 margin; the irrorations forming ;i faint, broken, medial line; postmedial 

 Hne fuie, black, incurved, lunular, partly double below vein 3, closely 

 followed by a black line, distally edged with Rood's brown, broadly 

 so from costa to vein 5, more narrowly from there to vein 3; a marginal 

 series of prominent black lunules connected terminally by a fine black 

 line; cilia gray with dark hairs. Hind wing with inner margin and 

 termen olive-brown; otherwise dark olive-buff, thinly scaled. Fore 

 wing below pale at base, terminally broadly citrine drab; costa beyond 

 base pale \-inaceous-fawn, and with a white spot at apex; an indistinct 

 postmedial line; ciUa whitish. Hind wing below whitish, the termen 

 narrowly light brownish drab. 



Expanse, 37 mm. 



Habitat. — Espirito Santo, Brazil. 



Type.—V.S.^.M. no. 34681. 



Genus MERAGISA Schaus 



MERAGISA MUCIDARA, new species 



Male. — Palpi fuscous, huffish above. Head and thorax mottled 

 grayish olive :ind light drab, with yellowish hairs extending from 

 metathorax. Abdomen above deep grayish olive with transverse pale 

 lines, the terminal segments light mouse gray, the underside buff. 

 Fore wing with base of costa and a broad space in end of and below 

 cell to postmedial line serpentine green; a subcostal fuscous line from 

 base to first medial line, with three black points below it in cell and 

 three fuscous spots above it on costa; the first postmedial line very 

 irregular and sinuous to inner margin, preceded below cell and vein 2 

 by three black lines angled on submedian, curved anteriorly above 

 cell and filled in with greenish white ; the second and third medial lines 

 excurved to vein 2, then downbent to inner margin; the postmedial 

 space Ught but dull greenish yeUow, crossed by double black lunules 

 on the interspaces and thick black streaks on some of the veins; apex 



