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margin whitish. Hind wings below whitish, the costal and termen 

 gray shaded; the discocellular shade broad. 



Expanse. — 1^ mm. 



Habitat. — St. Jean, Maroni River. 



Type.— Cat. No. 16541, U.S.N.M. 



MICROMONODES LEUCOSTICTA, new species. 



Male. — Head, collar, thorax, and fore wmgs bistre brown; a small 

 lilacine white spot on thorax behind; markings consisting of small 

 lUacine white spots, partly finely dark edged; a spot near base of 

 costa; an antemedial vertical row of spots; a postmedial series of 

 spots, well outcurved, inset opposite cell, incm-ved from below vein 4; 

 some subterminal and margkial spots; reniform white, consisting of 

 two superposed round spots. Hind wings dull brownish gray. 



Expanse. — 14 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Jean, Maroni River. 



Type.— Cat. No. 16542, U.S.N.M. 



MICROMONODES EXCELLENS, new species. 



Male. — Head, collar, and thorax bistre. Abdomen grayish brown. 

 Fore wmgs: Base bistre limited by an outcurved subbasal fuscous 

 line; umer margin whitish bistre, more broadly so before antemedial 

 line, wing otherwise to postmedial olive brown; a whitish bistre 

 shade on subcostal to antemedial, and a similar medial spot on costa 

 before Hue ; antemedial fine, brown on costal and mner margins, from 

 subcostal to submedian white finely edged with dark brown ; medial 

 space in cell and just below tmged with brighter brown, the medial 

 line sunilar, minutely dentate and outcurved ; postmedial deeply out- 

 curved, fuscous brown, somewhat punctiform, outwardly edged with 

 white from vein 7, from which point a broader white shade extends 

 to apex; an incurved whitish subterminal shade from vein 7 to vein 

 4 ; a dark brown terminal line preceded b}^ fine white shading. Hind 

 wings lilacine brown, the base whitish; ciUa grayish brown. Fore 

 wings below silky brown; a dark terminal line. Hmd wings below 

 whitish, the costal and outer margins tmged with hlacine brown; a 

 thick dark line on discocellular, a postmedial, and a terminal dark 

 line. 



Expanse. 15 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Jean, Maroni River. 



Type.— Cat. No". 16543, U.S.N.M. 



NEOLITA EPICASTE, new species. 



Female. — Head, coUar, thorax, and fore wings yellowish white with 

 scattered brown irrorations. Abdomen grayish. Fore wings: The 

 irrorations formmg famt antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines, 

 all outangled, the medial suffusing with dark brown edging of reni- 



