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red spot on shoulder, and a similar dorsal spot at base of abdomen. 

 Body below and legs fuscous black ; white scaling on pectus and fore 

 femora. Fore wing hyaline irrorated with black hairs on basal 

 half ; veins, inner margin, and termen narrowly, apex broadly black ; 

 a smoky shade across end of cell and discocellular from costa to 

 inner margin. Hind wing hyaline white irrorated with black hairs 

 towards the black termen and especially on submedian fold; costa 

 narrowly black. Underside as above. 



Expanse. — 26 mm. 



Habitat. — Porto Velho, Madeira River, Brazil. 



Type.— C^t. No. 25883, U.S.N.M. 



A male from the same locality and evidently belonging to this 

 species has the hind wing more densely scaled, white. The inner 

 margin of fore wing below white, the pectus and abdomen below 

 white, and white streaks on fore and hind femora. 



SAURITA ANSELMA. new speciea. 



Male. — Antennae fuscous black. Frons white; vertex black with 

 scarlet hairs behind. Tegulae and thorax scarlet. Abdomen black, 

 the basal segment with blue scaling dorsally and subdorsal vertical 

 scarlet lines. Legs black, the fore tibiae inwardly grayish. Wings 

 black. Fore wing: the base scarlet, broader on costa than on inner 

 margin; a hyaline streak in cell, bifurcating towards end of cell; a 

 hyaline streak below cell to vein 2 ; some blue scaling on lower disco- 

 cellular; cilia grayish white. Hind wing: cilia grayish white. 

 Wings below with base scarlet, on hind wing broadest on costal 

 margin; some light mouse gray shading at tornus of fore wing and 

 on termen of hind wing, upbent above submedian. 



Expanse. — 28 mm. 



Habitat. — Tabernilla, Panama. 



Type.— C2it. No. 25884, U.S.N.M. 



Collected by A. Busck. 



SAURITA GERALDA, new species. 



Female. — Antennae black with gray tips. Head black ; blue scal- 

 ing on frons and vertex. Tegulae and thorax orange rufous, the 

 tegulae edged with opalescent blue scales, and some similar irrora- 

 tions on patagia and shoulders; metathorax thickly irrorated with 

 opalescent blue scales. Abdomen black; a dorsal bluish white line; 

 a lateral dull whitish line. Legs fuscous black. Wings smoky hya- 

 line, the veins black. Fore wing: the margins narrowly black, ex- 

 panding at base of inner margin to submedian fold; subbasal blue 

 scaling on costa and median vein ; discal fold with a black line pro- 

 jecting into cell; some blackish suffusions before termen from vein 



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