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with wavy lines of red scales, forming faint bands; terminal dots as 

 on fore wing. Thorax with red dots and one on vertex of head. 

 Expanse, 9 mm. 



Type.— Female, No. 15S84, U.S.N.M.; La Qiorrera, May, 1912 

 (Busck). 



LYCAUGESIA STIGMALEUCA, new species. 



Pale gray, luteous over disk of fore wing; lines slender, faint, bent, 

 obhque on costa; apex dark shaded and longitudinally streaked; 

 discal spot distinct, white. Hind wing with two mesial rufous Hues, 

 filled with gray and followed by a white line; terminal Hne black. 

 Below fore wing shaded gray broadly on costa. Expanse, 12 mm. 



Type.—Uale, No. ISS??,*^ U.S.N.M.; Trinidad River, eJune, 1912 

 (Bupck). 



LYCAUGESIA PSEUDURA, new species. 



Fore wing light brown, marldngs purplish, light, not contrasted; 

 a dark patch at base; mner line very famt; outer slender, dark, fol- 

 lowed by a lighter area, strongly excurved in the middle; dark spot- 

 tmg at apex; a terminal row of small dots. Hmd wmg faintly Imed 

 with fulvous; a purplish half band on inner margin and patch on 

 lower half of margin, forming a spot in the fringe centrally like a pro- 

 jection. Expanse, 12 mm. 



Type.—Msi\e, No. 15874, U.S.N.M.; Trinidad River, March, 1912 

 (Busck). 



Near L. hypozonafa Hampson in shape and general color. 



LYCAUGESIA GRATIFICULA, new species. 



Fore wmg long and narrow, pale yellow, shaded famtly with pur- 

 plish along the costa and outer margin; a darker discal patch and 

 faint angled white outer line. Hind wing with pale yellow band 

 before middle; base and subtermkial area pale purplish; terminal 

 area pale red-brown. Expanse, 10 mm. 



Cotypes.— Two females, No. 15875, U.S.N.M.; Trinidad River, 

 March, 1912 (Busck); Cabima, May, 1911 (Busck). 



Allied to L. teneralis Walker. 



LYCAUGESIA POSTNIGRESCENS, new species. 



Fore wing light violaceous brown, with a few dots and streaks 

 representing the usual hnes; a ^ubapical black streak is most prom- 

 inent. Hind wing heavily shaded with dark over ground color like 

 that of fore wing, in irregular blotches, leaving the base, a patch on 

 inner margin, and one on outer margin pale; termmal dots on both 

 wings. Expanse, 15 mm. 



Type.— Female, No. 15878, U.S.N.M.; Trinidad River, June, 1912 

 (Busck). 



LYCAUGESIA PERPURPURA, new species. 



Rich rosy purple; frmges of both wings ocher; fore wing with dark 

 discal spot and zigzag white subterminal line; terminal row of dark 



