INSECUTOR INSCITI.'T; mrnstruus 155 



marginal line vertical, almost straight from costa to vein 4, 

 then deeply lunular to tornus ; the black lines edging terminal 

 space bifurcate on costa and are followed by a vertical brown 

 line from vein 6 to vein 8. Hind wings white; a few brown 

 irrorations on veins ; some brownish shading above anal angle ; 

 a terminal brown line. Fore wings below brown ; the costa 

 medially finely white ; the inner margin broadly white. Hind 

 wings below white ; a fine terminal brown line, somewhat 

 thicker at anal angle. 



Expanse, 44 mm. 



Habitat. — San Esteban Valley, Venezuela. 



rv/)^.— Cat. No. 23597, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Presented to the Museum by Dr. H. G. Dyar. 



Magava forensis, new species. 



Male. — Palpi with a black streak above, laterally dark brown, 

 in front white irrorated with brown. Frons white with a few 

 brown irrorations. Vertex mottled dark brown and white. 

 Collar and thorax dark brown, outwardly edged with white 

 irrorated with brown and black ; a whitish spot on thorax be- 

 hind. Abdomen above dark brown, the terminal segments 

 whitish gray ; underneath yellowish white. Legs shaded with 

 brown, the hind tibiae with broad brown fringe; tarsi with 

 brown rings. Fore wings white finely irrorated with light 

 brown ; base dark ochreous gray limited by a double black line 

 outbent from, costa to inner margin ; a fine medial black line 

 preceded by a small black spot on costa, faintly incurved from 

 costa to within cell at median vein, then incurved and outbent 

 to near vein 1, vertical to it, and outbent and outangled on 

 inner margin ; a faint whitish line on discocellular marked by 

 a small brown spot ; an inbent fuscous streak on costa above 

 discocellular, from which a faint brownish line is outangled on 

 costa, and then almost vertical to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 double, black, filled in with white from vein 8, slightly incurved 

 to vein 2, then single and outcurved to tornus, followed on 

 vein 2 and submedian fold by short black streaks, and above 

 vein 2 by a diffuse brown shade to costa; a marginal black 

 line straight from costa to vein 4, then inset and oblique on each 



