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with white near inner margin; discocellular spot thick; a faint medial 

 line; a well-marked postmedial line. 



Expanse. — 16 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayenne, French Guiana. 



Type.— C&t. No. 16640, U.S.N.M. 



METALECTRA FURVA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi dull fuscous. Head, collar, and thorax brown irro- 

 rated with fuscous brown. Abdomen dark grayish brown, with 

 some paler segmental Hnes; anal hairs tipped with whitish yellow. 

 Fore wings dark purple brown; subbasal and antemedial Hnes 

 lilacine, the former outwardly shaded with black on costa and below 

 cell; inwardly so shaded on cell, the latter outwardly shaded with 

 black, and preceded by a yellow brown shade below cell; medial line 

 outcurved, geminate, darker shaded and partly irrorated with red- 

 dish brown; an orbicular black point; reniform small, dark edged, 

 interrupting the outer medial line, followed by a lilacine shade; post- 

 medial consisting of small bright brown spots on a lilacine shade, 

 preceded by fuscous spots, the largest between vein 2 and submedian; 

 a subterminal lilacine shade, suffusing with postmedial at vein 5; 

 marginal fuscous brown spots connected by a deeply lunular similar 

 terminal line. Hind wings dark brown; cilia mottled with grayish. 

 Wings below brownish gray. Fore wings: Traces of lines from black 

 costal spots, the postmedial followed by a white spot. Hind wings : 

 Antemedial and postmedial lines distinct, outwardly paler shaded; a 

 fainter medial line and dark streak on discocellular; some subter- 

 minal dark spots. 



Expanse. — 27 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Jean, Maroni Kiver. 



Type.— Ciit. No. 16641, U.S.N.M. 



METALECTRA VARIATA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi dull brown. Head, collar, and patagia fuscous 

 brown; thorax white; abdomen dark gray with a yellowish white 

 transverse line near base. Fore wings dull fuscous brown; ante- 

 medial line broad, white, outbent, curved below cell, outwardly edged 

 by a fine dark line from subcostal to inner margin, followed by a small 

 whitish shade in cell, and a white point beyond; medial space below 

 cell to close to inner margin mottled white and yellowish brown; reni- 

 form space large, almost suffusing with the medial j^ellowish space, the 

 large reniform indicated by some dark lines, and crossed by a broken 

 dark line, which is followed by some yellowish shading; postmedial 

 Une wavily outcurved, white, inwardly edged by a dark line separating 

 it from the reniform space; term en broadly white from vein 5 to 

 costa, inwardly produced between 5 and 6; a terminal line, and cilia 



