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black streaks on interspaces. Hind wing fuscous black terminally, 

 paler shaded towards base, the cell and space just beyond almost 

 semi-hyaline whitish. Fore wing below fuscous black, the inner 

 margin faintly whitish; a white spot in cell towards discocellular; 

 postmedial white spots between veins 5 and 8 and subterminal white 

 spots between veins 5 and 3. Hind wing below whitish, the veins 

 and margins fuscous black. 



Expanse. — 39 mm. 



Habitat. — Sao Paulo, South East Brazil. 



Tyj)e.—Q2X. No. 25899, U.S.N.M. 



Received from H. von Ihering. 



The markings very similar to those of E. compljcatum Butler. 



EUCEREON THEOPHANES, new species. 



Male. — Antennae black, the shaft on terminal half grayish olive. 

 Palpi black, in front deep grayish olive; some white at base of first 

 joint. Frons blackish; vertex drab with a large black spot; orange 

 spots behind; tegulae grayish olive, broadly black behind; thorax 

 black with grayish olive hairs in front and on metathorax, the latter 

 tipped with yellow; grayish olive streaks on patagia and a line on 

 shoulders outwardly edged with orange yellow. Abdomen above 

 black to beyond middle then orange yellow, part of last segment and 

 anus black; a broad lateral black line; underneath light orange 

 yellow, the last segment black. Legs fuscous black, the coxae white. 

 Fore wing pale drab gray, the costal and inner margins and veins 

 olive ocher, the spots black; base consisting of spots increasing in 

 size to inner margin, interrupted at base of median by a small 

 ochraceous spot ; antemedial spots on costa, below cell, and above sub- 

 median ; a medial point in cell and spots above and below vein 1 ; a 

 large irregular spot at end of cell, a streak above it on costa, and an 

 oblique spot below it between veins 2 and 3, another spot below this 

 and a streak on inner margin; a spot beyond discocellular and a 

 point above vein 6 ; elongated sj)ots between veins 5 and 3 at cell, the 

 lower spot the longer with a small spot below vein 2; subterminal 

 large spots from costa to vein 5 ; terminal spots, the smallest between 

 veins 2 and 4, and 5 and 6. Hind wing with the basal half semi- 

 hyaline white, the outer and inner margins broadly black. Fore 

 wing below black ; a quadrate medial white spot in cell, and a large 

 spot below it joining the white inner margin ; postmedial white spots 

 from vein 8 to vein 2, those between 2 and 5 outset. Hind wing 

 below with the costa black. 



Expanse. — 31 mm. 



Habitat. — Rio Potaro, British Guiana. 



Type.— C2.t No. 25900, U.S.N.M. 



Ill appearance of wings somewhat like HeJiura thysbodes Dognin. 

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