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ish brown, darker on outer margin; a small dark discal spot; an 

 interrupted dark terminal line. Fore wings below pale grayish, the 

 costa broadly yellowish with some brown irrorations; a fine darker 

 shade on discocellular; a dark postmedial line, outcurved, well 

 marked below costa and cut by veins; a terminal dark line, its inner 

 edge wav3'. Hind wings below whitish, the costa slightly yellowish 

 with brown irrorations; a fuscous spot at end of cell; a macular 

 postmedial line, heaviest near costa; terminal dark spots. 



Expanse. — 28 mm. 



Habitat. — St, Jean, Maroni River. 



Type.— C2it. No. 16646, U.S.N.M. 



BANIANA HELLE, new species. 



Female. — Palpi brown. Frons and vertex in front creamy buff; 

 vertex otherwise, collar, and front of thorax velvety black brown. 

 Thorax otherwise pale buff. Abdomen irrorated with brownish gray. 

 Fore wings pale buff irrorated with coarse brown scales; antemedial 

 line dark brown wavily outbent to median between veins 3 and 2, 

 below 2 forming an incurved lunule, inwardly edged with a clear 

 pale shade; reniform consisting of two pale spots containing dark 

 points; a vertical pale outer line outwardly edged with bright brown; 

 marginal dark grayish lines, deeplj^ inbent, forming cuneiform spots 

 on interspaces; dark terminal points. Hind wings dull grayish 

 brown. Wmgs below paler with dark terminal points; traces of a 

 paler postmedial shade, and a dark discal point on hind wings. 



Expanse. — 28 mm. 



Habitat—Si. Jean, Maroni River. 



Near B. percara Walker. 



Type.— Csii. No. 16647, U.S.N.M. 



BANIANA CRUCILLA, new species. 



Male. — Antennae bipectinate. Palpi and collar light brown. 

 Head and body grajdsh. Fore wings grayish, thinly irrorated with 

 brown; a fine antemedial brown line crossing a velvety brown black 

 spot below cell, and marked by a small fuscous spot on costa; a black 

 point as orbicular; a fine black line on discocellular terminating in 

 points; postmedial startmg on costa from a small fuscous spot, out- 

 curved beyond cell and slightly incurved below vein 3, broadly 

 shaded with dark brown, especially opposite cell and between vein 2 

 and submedian ; an irregular darker subterminal shade ; dark terminal 

 spots somewhat lunular. Hind wings brownish gray. Wings below 

 duller with traces of a jDOstmedial darker shade, and a discal point 

 on hind wings. 



Expanse. — 27 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayenne. 



Type.— C&i. No. 16648, U.S.N .M. 



