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iiTorations; basal, siibbasal and antemedial liver brown spots form- 

 ing curved lines; a medial chestnut brown line, curved below cell, 

 dentate outwardly at veins and emitting in cell a line to discocel- 

 lular; space beyond to the rather remote postmedial, liver brown, 

 mottled between veins 5 and 6 and on inner margin with apricot 

 bull'; postmedial line very indistinct, lunular, kaiser brown, defined 

 by some apricot bull' scales from vein 5 to vein 2; apical third of 

 costa kaiser brown, a fuscous shade below it, a subterminal fuscous 

 brown irregular shade; temien apricot buff in^orated with kaiser 

 brown; cilia kaiser brown with faint light buff points at veins. 

 Hind wing greatly pix)duced on inner margin and anal angle, the 

 outer margin slightly incurved, seal brown ; a broad postmedial line 

 from costa to vein 4, apricot buff irrorated and divided by a kaiser 

 brown line ; edge of termen and base of cilia apricot buff irrorated 

 with kaiser brown, and with some small white spots on tips. Wings 

 below uniform chestnut brown. 



Expanse. — 30 ram. 



Habitat. — Cayuga, Guatemala. 



Tijpe.—C-Ai. No. 26242, U.S.N.M. 



Can be placed near E. cacopasa Dyar and E. aldff/ondes Schaus, 

 the hind Aving more produced than in those species. 



Family CERURIDAE. 



ELYMIOTIS PLECHELM, new species. 



Male. — Palpi light buff above, natal brown below. Head buffy 

 brown mottled with natal brown. Collar mostly citrine drab, the 

 scales behind i^artly tipped Avith black. Thorax buffy brown. Ab- 

 domen above benzo brown, the dorsal tuft at base army brown, 

 underneath v^hitish buff irrorated with dark olive gray; a black 

 ventral line; fore coxae and throat bone brown. Fore wing cinna- 

 mon drab; the median vein, a basal space below cell, the interspaces 

 near cell between veins 2 and 4, and a streak on costa whitish bufi, 

 the latter irrorated with black and crossed by numerous dark lines; 

 a short fuscous streak from base of costa obliquely to subcostal; fine, 

 geminate subbasal and antemedial lines above and below cell ; a dark 

 brown streak through cell interrupted by short medial lines, beyond 

 cell fine, fuscous black to near termen ; a velvety black point at lower 

 angle of cell, and a smaller point above it; another point in cell 

 below subcostal; medial line double with tuft of raised scales below 

 cell, a dark shade from it to submedian at antemedial line ; space 

 beyond cell between veins 4 and 6, also termen suffused with pur- 

 plish brown; postmedial line dark broAvn, double, consisting chiefly 

 of small lunules across veins; a subapical curved whitish line irro- 

 rated Avitli orange ciimamon between veins 7 and 8; fine black sub- 



