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brown irrorations which form also an inbent line beyond cell 

 from veins 7-5, and a second line inbent from costa to inner 

 margin, very indistinct below vein 4; a subterminal wavy 

 clear white line, preceded by darker shading from vein 5 to 

 costa ; some vague terminal brown spots ; cilia white with 

 brown spots on interspaces. Hind wings fuscous gray, the 

 inner margin broadly tinged with brown ; veins dark brown ; 

 cilia white. Fore wings below and cilia white ; costal and inner 

 margin broadly shaded with pale grayish brown ; base of wing 

 brownish. Hind wings and cilia below white ; a faint brown 

 tinge on inner margin ; base of wing brownish. 



Expanse, 50 mm. 



Habitat. — Omai, British Guiana. 



Type.— Cat. No. 33602, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Anita essequeba, new species. 



Female. — Palpi whitish streaked behind with dark brown. 

 Frons yellow brown. Vertex light brown. Collar and thorax 

 dark brown mottled with gray hairs ; patagia and shoulders 

 white mottled with dark brown hairs. Abdomen above dark 

 brownish gray. Body below pale yellowish brown, the legs 

 whitish gray; tarsi fuscous with white rings. Fore wings: 

 base broadly pale yellow brown, its outer edge irregular marked 

 by a dark brown spot on costa, one on inner margin and with 

 dark streaks in and below cell ; medial space on costa and in 

 cell whitish, crossed by a dark brown lunular line, preceded 

 from cell to inner margin by a similar line ; below cell this line 

 edges the basal space ; following the line below cell to inner 

 margin the wing is shaded with brown; discocellular spot 

 linear, brown, filled in with gray and white, and is closely fol- 

 lowed by a deeply dentate fuscous line from subcostal to inner 

 margin ; on costa this line is brownish ; postmedial line fine, 

 brown, lunular, outwardly edged with white in places, and 

 with light brown from vein 3 to inner margin, and is followed 

 throughout by long black streaks on veins, also a fuscous 

 shade from vein 4 to inner margin ; terminal third of wing 

 light brown from inner margin to vein 4, and whitish irrorated 



