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Type: Masatierra: Plazoleta del Yunque, 200 m. (Feb. 9, 1952). 

 Described from the unique male type. 



Nesochori^ brachystigma, new species 



Figure 74 



Alar expanse 14 mm. 



Labial palpus white; second segment brick red outwardly, suffused 

 fuscous apically; third segment almost wholly fuscous. Antenna, 

 scape buff with fuscous above; remainder fuscous with paler annula- 

 tions; antennal ciliations slightly over one. Head olive buff suffused 

 with fuscous anteriorly and with some brick-red scales laterally. 

 Thorax gray mixed with dull ocherous and with some brick-red scales 

 posteriorly. Forewing ground color gray; from basal fourth of costa 

 an outwardly oblique transverse fascia extends to middle of dorsum. 



Figure 74. — Nesochoris brachystigma, new species: 74, ventral view of male genitalia with 

 left harpe and aedeagus removed; 74a, lateral aspect of aedeagus. 



the fascia nearly twice as wide at dorsum as on costa and bordered by 

 brick-red transverse lines; the light fascia is suffused gray; costa with 

 eight small fuscous spots, and in apical fourth of wing some indistinct 

 mottling of the same color; entu'e surface of wing with scattered brick- 

 red scales; cilia olive buff mixed with brick-red ocherous. Hindwing 

 fuscous, somewhat paler basally; cUia paler with a fuscous subbasal 

 line. Legs olive buff; foreleg heavily overlaid with brick red, tarsi 

 fuscous with pale annulations. Abdomen grayish fuscous, somewhat 

 paler ventroanteriorly; anal tuft pale, grayish. 



