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fine, fuscous; subterminal shade Wack, broad, expanding near inner 

 margin. Hind wings below: Base grayish brown with dark irrora- 

 tions; postmedial line fuscous, heavily marked toward inner margin; 

 space beyond brownish buff; subterminal black shade, broad, 

 expanding to apex on costa; some marginal darker shading. 



Expanse. — 29 mm. 



Habitat. — -St. Jean, Maroni River. 



Type.— Cut. No. 16599, U.S.N.M. 



APISTIS ONEROSA, new species. 



Male. — Antennae cihate. Palpi dark brown, irrorated with white, 

 fringed below with reddish. Head and thorax dark purphsh, mottled 

 with grayish hairs. Collar tinged with dull, dark, reddish brown. 

 Abdomen fuscous gray, anal hairs whitish. Tarsi whitish. Fore 

 wings dark brown glossed with lilacine, crossed medially by dark 

 brown striae; lines fine, dark brown; antemedial vertical, outangled 

 in cell, more deeply outangled on submedian; orbicular round, indis- 

 tinct, paler brown, glossed with lilacine; reniform large, paler brown; 

 a fuscous brown shade in cell between the spots; postmedial fine, out- 

 curved on costa, outwardly edged by a pale shade and light brown 

 points on veins; subterminal fuscous points on interspaces; termen 

 irrorated with Hlacine; a terminal fine fine, expanding at middle of 

 interspaces. Hind wings more grayish brown, the termen as on fore 

 wings; a postmedial fine brown line, angled on inner margin. Fore 

 wings below grayish brown, the costa deep yellow; a pale line on dis- 

 cocellular; a fuscous postmedial line. Hind wings below whitish 

 Hlacine irrorated with brown; a dark spot on discocellular, and finely 

 wavy postmedial line. 



Expanse. — 50 mm. 



Hahitat.—FeTU. 



Type.— Cut. No. 16600, U.S.N.M. 



EROMIDIA, new genus. 



Male. — Antennae almost as long as fore wing. Palpi obliquely 

 ascending, moderately scaled, the third joint one-third as long as 

 second. Legs long and slender; fore legs slightly fringed, the tarsi 

 with small tuft at base; hind legs smooth, the inner medial spur long. 

 Fore wings nan-ow, the apex acute, the outer margin oblique, less so 

 in female; vein 3 from lower angle of cell; 4 and 5 above and apart; 

 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 10 from areole which is narrow, 8 and 9 on 

 long stalk; 11 from cell approximating 10. Hind wings broad; costa 

 straight, outer margin slightly rounded; cell short; 3 and 4 from 

 lower, 6 and 7 from upper angle; 5 above lower angle. 



Type of genus. — Eromidia clotho Schaus. 



