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white spot; cilia brown with a whitish Ime at base. Fore wings 

 below brown; a dark shade at end of cell, a spot on submedian fold 

 below it, and a whitish streak on costa above it; inner margin 

 whitish; the terminal dark line from vein 5 to apex. Hind wings 

 below grayish white, partly irrorated with brown; a dark discal spot 

 and postmedial line; an interrupted thick terminal line. 



Expanse. — 16 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Jean, Maroni Kiver. 



Type.— Chi. No. 16549, U.S.N.M. 



PHOBOLOSIA ADMIRABILIS, new species. 



Male.— Palpi and head black. Collar and thorax grayish white. 

 Abdomen pale gray. Fore wings white; a few scattered brown- 

 black irrorations; antemedial line brown, vertical, expanding below 

 cell into a large brown black spot; a similar spot at end of cell, 

 outwardly edged mth white, followed by a blue-gray shade, down- 

 bent to submedian, expandmg below spot to its inner edge; costa 

 beyond antemedial shaded with pale brown; medial space above 

 submedian, and entu'e inner margm so shaded; a fine dark-bro^Ti 

 outer line, slightly outcurved on costa; two large margmal blue-gray 

 spots, one from veuis 4-7, the other slightly darker and triangular 

 from below vein 4 to near tomus, the latter preceded by a pale brown 

 shade; a terminal dark-brown line; cilia brown. Hind \\dngs white, 

 the apex and outer margin broadly fuscous to near anal angle; a 

 terminal sUvery shade. Fore wings below white; anterior half 

 suffused with brown; a large fuscous spot over discocellular to below 

 submedian fold ; termmal bluish shadmg. Hind wings below similar 

 to upper side. 



Expanse. — 20 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Jean, Maroni River. 



Type.^C&t. No. 16550, U.S.N.M. 



ORUZA DOTO, new species. 



Female. — Body above dull purplish brown, the collar without 

 purple tmge. Fore wings: Basal half dull purplish brown, limited 

 by reniform and postmedial line which are yello^vash white, the 

 postmedial outcurved close to reniform with only a fine brown line 

 between them, vertical on costa, slightly inbent below reniform; an 

 antemedial pale line, outbent on costa, vertical from within cell, 

 somewhat punctiform and not reaching inner margin; postmedial 

 space pale bistre followed by an kregular purplish brown shade to 

 subtermmal which is fine, very irregular, grayish bistre; terminal 

 space dark purplish gray; a terminal dark brow^i Ime; cilia bistre 

 crossed by two fine fuscous lines. Hind wings: ^ase like fore wings, 

 the lines luniting it somewhat incurved and downbent to inner 

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