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and tarsi fuscous black. Fore wing drab; base below costa white, 

 extending as a line to middle of wing below subcostal, also a fine 

 white line above subcostal vein; an angled white line at end of cell 

 before a drab spot, suffusing beyond it with a white annulus con- 

 taining a drab spot ; a postmedial inbent lunular white line, the points 

 of lunules slightly produced basad on veins; terminal space with 

 fine white lines on veins, and thicker white streaks on interspaces, 

 the latter diverging on termen and enclosing drab spots. Hind wing 

 rather paler with drab hairs on inner area and terminal spots on 

 interspaces. 



Expanse. — 47 mm. 



Habitat. — Villa Rica, Paraguay. 



Type.— Cat. No. 26069, U.S.N.M. 



Received from Don Pedro Jorgensen. 



Named after Mr. Schade of Villa Rica. 



MEGALOPYGE BRAULIO, new species. 



Male. — Antennae vinaceous buff, a streak on shaft and tips of 

 pectinations white. Palpi ivory yellow shaded laterally at base 

 with bister. Head and body bister; ivory yellow spots on vertex, 

 shoulders, front of thorax and dorsally on first segment of abdomen, 

 the following segments with white spots expanding gradually to 

 anal segment; some whitish hairs on tegulae. Body below and legs 

 bister. Fore wing drab; some white at base and a bister subbasal 

 point; a white shade at end of cell enclosing a fuscous discal spot; 

 a whitish postmedial shade from which white streaks extend on in- 

 terspaces to near termen, the veins terminally finely streaked with 

 white ; basal half of costa with white streaks above and below costal 

 vein. Hind wing whitish, the veins broadly drab. Wings under- 

 neath white, the veins drab, broadly so terminally on fore wing which 

 also has the cell drab to near end. 



The female has no white on termen of fore wing; a white wavy 

 line on basal half of costa, and the usual crinkly hairs from base to 

 beyond middle, the postmedial white hairs forming wavy lines. 

 Hind wing thinly scaled, hair brown, the veins slightly darker. 



Expanse. — Male, 30 mm. ; female, 39 mm. 



Habitat. — Villa Rica, Paraguay. 



Type.— Cat. No. 26070, U.S.N.M. 



Differs from M. albicolUs Walker and M. svperba Henry Edwards 

 in the drab color of wings, and in the less intense white markings 

 of postmedial area of fore wing. 



Received from Don Pedro Jorgensen. 



