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low cell, and similar spots on either side on inner margin; a small 

 white shade near end of cell, and a white shade beyond cell between 

 veins 5 and 7; a faint dark siibterminal line, faintly lunnlar dentate; 

 a darker terminal shade with small Avhite spots on intei-spaces ; cilia 

 gray with a darker basal line. Hind wing semihAaline white shaded 

 Avith drab, except at base ; a darker postmedial line outAvardly edged 

 with wliite; termen with white lunnles forming a line from vein 3 

 to anal angle; cilia white with dark spots at veins. Underneath 

 duller the spots on fore wing showing through, the hind wing 

 whitish with only a dark postmedial line. 



Expanse. — 30 mm. 



Habitat. — Yahuanna3'o, Peru. 



Ttjpe.—Cnt. No. 25594, U.S.N.M. 



Close to S. excelsalis Schaus. 



MARGARONIA CELESTINALIS, new species. 



Male. — Fore wing with down-turned fringe at base of costa below 

 concealing tufts of long hairs. Palpi orange brown fringed below 

 with white. Head, collar, and thorax white; front of collar and a 

 line on shoulders orange brown. Abdomen creamy white above, the 

 anal hairs black. Body below and legs white, the fore tibiae and 

 tai'si yellow brown. Fore wing above bright iridescent gray, the 

 margins narrowly duller, the base white; a white streak below sub- 

 costal ; costa yellow brown with a silver streak above subcostal ; a ter- 

 minal dark line broken into spots near apex. Hind wing less bril- 

 liantly iridescent, the base and inner margin more whitish; terminal 

 line continuous. Wings below with the outer margins broadly dark 

 shaded, the basal half of costa of hind wing white. 



Expanse. — 31 mm. 



Habitat. — Yahuarmayo, Peru. 



Type.—Ciit. No. 25601, U.S.N.M. 



MARGARONIA CULMINALIS, new species. 



3/aZf.— Body above clay color; base of palpi below and throat 

 white; lateral black tufts on anal segment. Body below white, tibiae 

 partly clay color. Fore wing above silkj^ clay color; an oblique 

 black shade from below cell antemedially to middle of inner margin; 

 discocellular finelj' fuscous; subterminal semiliyaline white spots 

 edged with fuscous above and below vein 6, and a white point above 

 vein 7; from vein 5 to inner margin a semihyaline white line out- 

 wardly edged with fuscous, the space before it more thinly scaled; 

 cilia with basal darker points. Hind wing semihyaline white; a 

 black point on discocellular; termen faintly whitish clay color, de- 

 fined by faint subterminal and terminal fine darker lines. Wings 



