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6 and 7 ; a marginal fine limular line and a dark line along the crenu- 

 late termen. Hind wing buffy light yellow ; a faint line on discocellu- 

 lar and buffy brown medial line outciirved beyond cell; a finer more 

 evenly curved postmedial line followed by broad drab shading; a 

 fine terminal dark line ; cilia broadly tipped with fuscous. Fore wing 

 below buff white, the costa broadly suffused with drab; postmedial 

 line outcuiwed beyond cell; a fine outer line slightly curved: sub- 

 terminal crescents between veins i and 7 inwardly white edged be- 

 tween veins 5 and 7. Hind wing below buff white thickly irrorated 

 with fuscous; medial line thick, fuscous, outwardly dark shaded; 

 outer line lunular dentate, the shading beyond also dentate; inner 

 margin and termen with fewer irrorations. 



Expanse. — 40 mm. 



Habitat. — Tucuman, Argentina. 



Type.— C?ii. No. 26356, U.S.N.M. 



Very near Colohata lineosa Walker but with the termen of fore 

 wing crenulate. 



Family LASIOCAMPIDAE. 



PRORIFRONS GRANULA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi vinaceous brown. Antennae, head, tegulae, thorax, 

 and base of abdomen vinaceous buff; abdomen otherwise above and 

 hind wing fawn color; body below suffused with vinaceous brown, 

 the tarsi deep mouse gray with whitish rings. Fore wing on basal 

 area vinaceous buff, crossed by a wavy fawn color line its proximal 

 side paler edged; medial space fawn color, 10 mm. wide on costa, 3 

 mm. Avide on inner margin, proximally slightly outangled on costa 

 and wavily vertical to inner margin, distally incurved from vein 5 

 to inner margin ; a white point in cell followed by a dusky shade to 

 postmedial line ; postmedial space ochraceous buff darker before ter- 

 minal area, crossed by a line, minutely lunular from costa to vein 4, 

 defined by fawn color shading proximally; terminal area broadly 

 fawn color its proximal side very irregular with black points at sub- 

 median. Hind wing with medial and postmedial darker lines. Wings 

 below fawn color thickly irrorated with light buff and crossed by two 

 buff' lines, much broader on hind wings. 



Expanse. — 85 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayuga, Guatemala. 



Type.— C?it. No. 26216, U.S.N.M. 



This species shows considerable variation, the coloring more uni- 

 form, the medial space narrower, the subterminal black points more 

 numerous extending to near costa. The wings are broad as in P. 

 conradti Druce, but not so variegated ; the outer edge of medial space 

 is not so oblique as in P. prosper Dyar from Mexico to which it is 

 more closely allied. 



