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fore legs suffused with brown ; abdomen ochreous dorsally suffused 

 with brown. Fore wing ochreous irrorated with brown; traces of 

 a brown antemedial line oblique from costa to a diffused brown patch 

 in the cell, inwardly oblique below submedian fold; two blackish 

 discoidal points with a slight annulate brown mark above them on 

 costa; postmedial line very indistinct, double, dentate, angled 

 inwards above and below vein (> and outwards at vein 1, then oblique; 

 a very indistinct subterminal series of dentate marks with dark 

 brown points on their outer edge, 1 he points above and below vein 6 

 obliquely placed, the series excurved at middle: cilia ochreous 

 white. Hind wing ochreous suffused with reddish brown except 

 in and beyond the cell, the terminal area, darker from apex to 

 vein 2 ; cilia ochreous white; the underside pale ochreous, the 

 termen' suffused with brown from apex to submedian fold. 



Huh. Brazil, Amazons, Fonte Boa (Klac/es), type f 8 in Coll. 

 Rothschild. San Ernesto, R. Napo, Coca, R. Tiputini. Exp. 40 

 millim. 



1488 a. Halisidota cirphis. (Plate LIY. fig. 5.) 

 Halisidota cirphis, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 185 (1911). 



cf . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi brown at 

 tips; antennae with the branches rufous; fore femora on inner side 

 and tarsi at extremities fuscous ; abdomen ochreous dorsally suffused 

 with brown. Fore wing ochreous sparsely irrorated with brown; 

 some antemedial brown points from below eosta to submedian fold, 

 angled outwards at median nervure ; a blackish spot at lower angle 

 of cell ; a postmedial series of dentate spots defined by brown scales, 

 angled inwards at discal fold, where there is a blackish spot before it, 

 and oblique below vein 4; a subterminal series of dentate spots 

 defined by brown scales and with blackish points on their outer 

 edge; a slight crenulate line formed of brown scales just before 

 termen. Hind wing ochreous, the veins of inner half and the inner 

 area suffused with brown ; subterminal blackish points below apex 

 and at discal fold; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown. 



Rob. Costv Rica, Tuis (Schaus), 1 6 ■ JExp. 42 millim. 



*1 ISO a. Halisidota lua. (Plate LIV. fig. 0.) 

 Halisidota lua, Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxviii. p. 234 (1910). 



J . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with dull brown ; abdomen 

 brownish, the extremity ochreous. Fore wing ochreous, the inner 

 half of medial area shaded with brown ; the inner margin with 

 brown streak; an indistinct slightly curved antemedial series of 

 small pale spots defined by brown; an oblique postmedial series of 

 small pale spots defined by brown, the spots above veins 4 and 3 

 dentate ; a subterminal series of small pale spots defined by brown ; 



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