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PRORIFRONS HEMPSTEADI, new species. 



Male. — Palpi vinaceous brown. Antennae, head, tegiilae, and 

 thorax hght ochraceous buff. Abdomen fawn color shaded with buff 

 lateral^; throat, fore coxae, and tibae vinaceous brown; tarsi vina- 

 ceous brown irrorated with white and with faint whitish rings. 

 Fore wing: base to medial space light pinkish cinnamon irro- 

 ra^ted with vinaceous fawn ; antemedial line fawn color sinuously 

 curved, proximally edged with whitish buff; medial space fawn 

 color irrorated with whitish buff except on edges, 5 mm. wide 

 on costal and inner margins, narrower between veins 5 and 1 ; a 

 white point in cell; postmedial space buff Avhite with fawn shading 

 beyond cell, the postmedial line indicated by faint vinaceous gray 

 edging followed by a broad light ochraceous buff shade, its outer 

 edge very irregular with some small black spots; terminal space 

 l)roadly fawn thickly irrorated with buff'. Hind wing fawn color 

 the termen irrorated with white; cilia cinnamon tipped with white. 

 Wings below fawn color thickly iiTorated with white; medial and 

 postmedial whitish lines across both wings. 



Expanse. — 80 mm. 



Habitat. — Chejel, Guatemala. 



Type.— Ciit. No. 26217, U.S.N.M. 



Najiied after Don Roberto Hempsted at whose hospitable house 

 innumerable specimens were collected. 



TOLYPE ABDAN, new species. 



Male. — Palpi and side of frons black, front and top of palpi nar- 

 rowly white; frons white. Collar, thorax, and abdomen white. Fore 

 wing white, thinly scaled ; antemedial and postmedial brownish quad- 

 rate spots on costa; faint traces of subbasal and antemedial lines; an 

 outcurved, postmedial series of short dark streaks on veins; a sub- 

 terminal cinnamon buff line, inbent on costa, outset at vein 9 and 

 rather broad to vein 6, narrower between veins 6 and 4, slightly 

 broader again between 4 and 3, narrow again between 3 and 2; a 

 streak of longer white scales on discocellular ; termen narrowly more 

 thickly scaled; three fuscous points at apex; cilia white. Hind 

 wing smoky black; a whitish shade in disc; a narrow subterminal 

 white shade ; cilia tipped with white. Fore wing below white with 

 traces of markings. Hind wing below white with long smoky 

 streaks on interspaces postmedially. 



Expanse. — 30 mm. 



Ihibitat. — Panama. 



Tyj)e.—C2it. No. 26218, U.S.N.M. 



Received from C. L. Pollard. 



The cell of the hind wing is remarkably short, so that vein 6 arises 

 from 7 close to base, 8 apparently from 9. 



