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curved across vein 5 and downbent to vein 2, then incurved to inner 

 margin, and partly bordered outwardly with clusters of white scales; 

 termen mostly light brown and dark olive-birff; an interrupted 

 terminal black line ; the apex edged wdth white ; the markings all very 

 confused. Hind wing buff-brown on inner margin, the medial space 

 wood brown, the costa and apex faintly whitish. Wings below cream 

 -color, the fore wing suffused with brownish drab below costa. 



Expanse, 42 mm. 



Habitat. — Itatiaya, Brazil. 



Type.—U.S.'NM. no. 34675. 



Received from J. F. Zikan. 



Genus KASERIA Schaus 



KASERIA DICOLIS. now species 



Male. — Palpi and base of throat fuscous. Vertex mouse gray, 

 laterally white. Collar and patagia white mottled with mouse 

 gray, thorax fuscous. Abdomen above snuff bro\Mi with transverse 

 mouse-gray lines, underneath white with drab-gray lines. Fore 

 wing white with a few brownish irrorations; a fine, faint, wavy ante- 

 medial line; a postmedial quadrate dark spot on costa, \vith a some- 

 what prolonged branch distally below subcostal, from which the 

 postmedial benzo-brown lunular line is downbent to vein 3, below 

 which it forms a fuscous line proximally and is outcurved to the 

 tornus; the postmedial preceded from subcostal to vein 3 by avellane- 

 ous irrorations, and distally double above vein 5; termen mouse 

 gray proximally, edged by sinuous dark scaling, and with marginal 

 olive-brown irregular lines. Hind wing white with very faint grayish 

 suffusions on termen. Wings below white. Fore wdng with the 

 costal edge dusky brown; a postmedial cinnamon patch from costa 

 to vein 4 and similar irrorations on termen. 



Expanse, 29 mm. 



Habitat. — Jaragua do Sul, Brazil. 



Type.—V.S.'N.M. no. 34676. 



Genus HEMICERAS Guenee 



HEMICERAS GERAESA, new species 



Female. — Head, thorax, and abdomen light cinnamon -drab, the 

 last with darker transverse lines dorsally and colonial buff underneath. 

 Fore wing cinnamon-drab, somewhat roseate terminally and before the 

 outer hne; some grayish irrorations; a fine dark bro\vn antemedial 

 line slightly outbcnt, the outer line dark brown, distally pale-edged 

 from costa near apex to inner margin near antemedial; a fine fuscous 

 line on discocellular; the veins from cell to termen fuscous; faint 



