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brown. Secondaries semi-hyaline, whitish, the veins and the margins dusky black. 

 Underneath the primaries are black with some vague whitish spots beyond the cell. 

 Expanse, 39 mm. 



Habitat: Jalapa, Mexico. Also in coll. British Museum. 

 Eucereon patrona, sp. nov. 



Head, collar and thorax pale brownish gray, with a broad velvety brown lateral 

 streak. Abdomen dorsally crimson with some black hairs subdorsally on the first 

 three segments ; laterally a broad black streak ; anus black ; underneath yellow. 

 Primaries pale brownish gray with some dark but indistinct streaks along the mar- 

 gins forming vague transverse lines, which become lost in a broad velvety brown shade 

 extending from the base to nearly the apex. Secondaries whitish, semi-hyaline, 

 the veins and fringe brownish ; the apex and anal angle clouded with brown. Ex- 

 panse, 43 mm. 



Habitat: Area. Venezuela; Orizaba, Mexico. 



Eucereon velutina, sp. nov 



Head and thorax gray ; patagire brown. Abdomen dorsally with the basal 

 half black, the anal half orange with subdorsal and lateral black spots. Underneath 

 blackish with two yellow stripes. Primaries rich brown, paler at the base of the 

 inner margin ; a basal dark line from the costa ; a narrow triangular dark space on 

 the outer margin ; an outer wavy line almost imperceptible above vein 4, but very 

 dark and becoming broader below it to the inner margin. Secondaries smoky black ; 

 the costal margin yellowish ; a black point in the cell. Expance, 27 mm. 



Habitat : Sao Paulo, S. E. Brazil. 

 Eucereon cinctum, sp. nov. 



Head black ; reddish posteriorly. Thorax smoky brown with some pinkish 

 streaks and a pink subdorsal spot posteriorly. Abdomen black above with a broad 

 crimson space before the anal segment ; underneath brownish with two yellow 

 streaks. Primaries smoky black with the veins, a basal, an outer and a submarginal 

 transverse line fawn color; a slight diaphanous spot in the cell and another beyond 

 it. Secondaries hyaline with the outer margin broadly black. Underneath the 

 primaries are black spotted with white. Expanse, 27 mm. 



Habitat: Trinidad, B. W. I. 



Erithales capsica, sp. nov. 



Head pale gray with a minute black spot. Collar pale gray with two large 

 black spots. Thorax pale gray ; a black dorsal line ; two small spots on patagia;. 

 Abdomen above gray at the base, otherwise pink with a dorsal grayish line. Under- 

 neath white. Primaries grayish white with black spots as in E. guacolda Poey, but 

 larger. Secondaries with the base semi-hyaline white, the outer half gray. Under- 

 neath the wings are dark. Expanse, 33 mm. 



Habitat: Silo Paulo, S. E. Brazil. 



Allied to E. guacolda Poey, and E. qiiadricolor Walk, which is 

 wrongly placed under Theages in Kirby's Catalogue of Moths. The 



