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very irregular to middle of inner margin, closely followed by the 

 siibterminal line to vein 3; a terminal line well incurved between 

 each terminal space; cilia white. Hind wing chaetura drab, the 

 inner margin aniline yellow; a black medial line, double at anal angle; 

 cilia white. Fore wing below dark grayish ohve; costa, termen, and 

 inn(M- margin wliite. Hind wing below a cartridge buff; the termen 

 broadly dark grayish olive, broadest at costa, with a streak proxi- 

 m.ally at vein 6; termen and ciHa white. 



Expanse, 44 mm. 



Habitat. — Campo Bello, Brazil. 



Type.— V.S.N. M. no. 34649. 



Received from my friend J. F. Zikan. 



MERAGISA LUCEDIA, new species 



Female. — Head, collar, thorax, and base of abdomen pale ecru-buff; 

 abdomen above similar with transverse hues of clay color; body below 

 pale ecru-drab. Fore wing Avith base white crossed by a fme, dentate, 

 subbasal line, and limited by a fine double antemedial line outbent 

 from costa to middle of inner margin; the space beyond vinaceous- 

 buff; postmedial line like antemedial, inbent from costa to vein 6, 

 vertical to vein 5 and outbent to inner margin close to tomus ; termi- 

 nal oblique dark lines on interspaces inwardly edged with w^hite; 

 a small cinnamon-drab spot at discocellular; dark points on costa 

 from before postmedial line to apex. Hind wing light brownish drab, 

 the margins suffused with whitish on termen between the veins. 

 Fore mng below browniish drab, the inner margin broadly wliite, 

 narrower and terminating in a pomt at tornus. Hind wing below 

 whitish irrorated ^dth hght brownish drab, forming a vague post- 

 medial curved fascia. 



Expanse, 42 mm. 



Habitat. — Cuba. 



Type.— V.S.N. M. no. 34645. 



Nearest M. valdiviesoi Dognin. 



MERAGISA RAUULANA, new species 



Male. — Palpi light gray, with a lateral black streak on third seg- 

 ment; vertex wdth a black transverse line. Collar and thorax grayish 

 olive, mottled with smoke gra}'^; the thorax below and the legs chamois. 

 Abdomen above hght pinkish cinnamon at base, the medial segments 

 with the hair brown and with faint paler segmental lines, the last 

 segment and anal hairs white mottled with dark-gray hairs; aodonien 

 below colonial buff. Fore wing wliite irrorated with gray and black 

 scales; a fine dark basal line followed by black points; a double black 

 antemedial line wavily outbent on costa, inbent in cell, with black 

 points on discocellular and at vein 2, followed by some diffuse dark 



