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Hind wings white, the veins brown; outer margin suffused 

 with brown. Fore wings below brown with whitish streaks on 

 postmiedial interspaces; costa narrowly white spotted with 

 brown on outer half except at termen ; termen whitish ochre 

 irrorated with brown, sharply defined by the dark edging of 

 brown space. Hind wings below white, the costa yellowish 

 white ; some narrow brown shading before termen. 



Expanse, 56 mm. 



Habitat. — Mocoton, Venezuela. 



Type.— Cat. No. 23589, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Near Nystalea marmorea Schaus. 



Nystalea postpuncta, new species.. 



Male. — Palpi, head, and collar dark brown. Thorax whitish 

 gray. Abdomen dorsally brownish gra> with fine paler seg- 

 mental lines ; underneath pale ochreous. The tufts on fore 

 tibiae brown mottled with ochreous and with a small white 

 spot. Fore wings whitish irrorated with pale brown, the ter- 

 minal spaces suffused with pale brown ; some irregular fuscous 

 markings ; antemedial double dark lines, almost subbasal, out- 

 curved on costa and below cell, interrupted on subcostal by 

 short incurved lines, followed in cell by a fine horizontal line, 

 and by dark points on median, submedian fold, and vein 1 ; 

 a triple medial transverse line, the proximal line inangled in 

 cell, joining the cellular streak, indistinct below cell ; the mid- 

 dle line interrupted on veins, the distal line thicker, sinuous 

 from costa to vein 2, then inbent and lunular ; some ochreous 

 shading in places between these lines; veins 2-7 from medial 

 to postmedial line black ; an irregular brown spot on discocel- 

 lular, darker edged behind ; postmedial line double, dark 

 brown, gently curved, not reaching inner margin, followed by 

 double black and white points on veins, and a round black spot 

 between veins 4 and 5 ; a subterminal very irregular and inter- 

 rupted velvety black-brown line ; marginal fuscous spots on 

 interspaces ; cilia gray with paired black spots at veins. Hind 

 wings : base, cell, postmedial space from vein 2 to costa whit- 

 ish, the veins brown, otherwise dull grayish brown. Fore 

 wings below grayish brown, darkest on terminal third, the 



