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by a fine line. Hind wings: Outer and inner margins darker shaded ; 

 an indistinct terminal fuscous line. Wings below paler; the marginal 

 spots larger, especially on hind wings; costa of hind wings irrorated 

 with brown; a paler shade at end of cell on fore wings. 



Expanse. — 20 mm. 



Habitat — Cayenne, French Guiana. 



Type.— C&t. No. 16636, U.S.N.M. 



METALECTRA ALCIS, new species. 



Male. — Palpi black, tipped with dark brown. Head, collar, and 

 thorax white with a few gray irrorations. Abdomen dorsally roseate 

 brown with darker irrorations and grayish segmental lines. Wings 

 white. Forewiugs: A grayish outcurved antemedial fascia ; two fine 

 medial fuscous brown lines, slightly outcurved, inclosing the brown 

 reniform spot, joined by grayish and pale reddish irrorations; a fine 

 black postmedial line, minutely dentate, outangled at vein 4, followed 

 by a dull reddish fine shade, and large fuscous brown shades on 

 costal and inner margins; a wavy subterminal, and a fine terminal 

 black line; the termen broadly shaded with fuscous and brown 

 between veins 3 and 6; the costal margin tinged with pale bistre. 

 Hind wings: Costal and inner margin grayish; medial and post- 

 medial fuscous lines, the disk between them irrorated with dark 

 brown, and a fuscous streak on discocellular ; terminal space between 

 veins 2 ^nd 6 dark reddish brown; anal angle bistre; a subterminal, 

 and a terminal fuscous line; cilia crossed by two broken reddish brown 

 lines. Fore wings below brown, the termen shaded with dark slate 

 color; inner margin white to beyond middle; traces of lines; some 

 yellowish spots on costa. Hind wings below white, with dark irrora- 

 tions, except on inner margin; antemedial and postmedial fines; a 

 fuscous line on discocellular; outer margin broadly dark grayish 

 brown; some terminal pale spots. 



Expanse — 14 mm. 



Hahitat. — St. Jean, Maroni River. 



Type.— C&t. No. 16637, U.S.N.M. 



METALECTRA CEYX, new species. 



Male. — Palpi grayish white, ringed with fuscous. Head grayish 

 white. Collar and thorax similar irrorated with lilacine and pale 

 reddish brown. Abdomen shaded with yellow green; some reddish 

 scaling at base; some fuscous shading terminally. Wings whitish, 

 the lines and shadings pale olive; marginal fuscous spots connected 

 by a fine terminal wavy line. Fore wings : Extreme costa irrorated 

 with black, especially medially where two fine black lines suffuse with a 

 velvety black line on discocellular; traces of antemedial and medial 

 lines ; postmedial fine, wavy dentate, preceded by a pale shade and fol- 



