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ENCRUPHION, new genus. 



Palpi upturned, second joint reaching vertex, moderately scaled, 

 smooth; third joint as long as second, slender, smooth, the tips 

 dilated. Antennae smooth, slightly minutely serrate terminally with 

 short cUia. Legs hairy. Fore wings long; outer margin well 

 rounded; vein 3 near lower angle; 4 from angle; 5 above lower angle; 

 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked fiom areole; 10 from end of areole; 

 11 free. Hind wings narrow, smaU in proportion to fore wing; costal 

 margin arched at base; veins 3, 4, 5 equally apart from lower angle; 

 6 and 7 from upper angle; vein 8 curved, approximating 7 to near 

 end of cell, inclosing on costal margin a large elliptical fovea, clothed 

 above with an exceptionally thick mass of scales, overlapped with 

 long fringe from costa. 



Type of genus. — Encrwphion porrima Schaus. 



ENCRUPHION PORRIMA, new species. 



Male.— Head grayish. Collar, thorax, and fore wings gray tinged 

 with brown; front of collar black; a few black scales on patagia. 

 Abdomen duller brown-gray. Fore wings: A broad dark-brown 

 shade near base from costa to near submedian, crossed by a darker 

 line and edged with black, outwardly expanding into a black spot 

 below fold, the whole closely followed by a fine, fuscous, interrupted 

 antemedial line ; orbicular round pale olive brown; traces of a medial 

 black line, on costa outbent and well marked ; medial space to post- 

 medial line tinged with pale olive brown; renifoim indicated by 

 lilacine gray mottling; postmedial line outbent, white, outwardly 

 edged with black to vein 4, then obsolescent, indicated by cuneiform 

 black spots above and below fold, and a spot on inner margin; a 

 triangular dark brown shade on costa beyond postmedial, its apex 

 formed by a black spot between veins 6 and 5; a subterminal olive 

 brown shade tinged with fuscous between veins 4 and 5; termen 

 narrowly white; black marginal spots on interspaces connected by a 

 black teiminal line interrupted by white points at veins. Hind 

 wings gray-brown; the termen as on fore wings but not so clearly 

 marked. Fore wings below brownish gray; inner margin broadly 

 white; the cell and just below it clothed with long dark olive-brown 

 hairs. Hind wings below white, irrorated with brown forming an 

 outer line and marginal shade. 



Expanse. — 39 mm. 



Habitat. — Omai, British Guiana. 



Type.—C2X. No. 16570, U.S.N.M. 



ENCRUPHION PHALEREUS, new species. 



Male. — Body and wings brown. Fore wings: A broad black- 

 brown shade beyond base outbent from costa to submedian where 



