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Erastria. cogela. - Heafl and thorax reddish l)iowii, irrorated with lila- 

 cine scales. Abdomen huff, irrorated with brown. Primaries reddisli brown, 

 mottled with buff; the veins and costal margin irrorated with lilacine and dark 

 grey; spots indistinct, faintly outlined in buff; a greyish shade between the 

 spots; a fine buff line from costa near apex to middle of inner margin, shaded 

 inwardly with darker brown, outwardly with buff; the apex shaded with huff. 

 Secondaries buff, thinly irrorated with brown ; a dark outer line. Expanse 21 mm. 



Habitat. — Castro, Parana. 



Erastria inirabiliN. — Head and thorax dark grey. Primaries: base 

 dark grey, extending along inner margin, and followed by a huff shade; costal 

 margin to outer line olivaceous brown, and a similar shade beyond reuiform, 

 which is large, olivaceous brown, outlined with darker brown ; fine, inner, me- 

 dian and outer brown lines; a curved roseate white subterminal line, outwardly 

 shaded with dark brown, broadly so on costal mai'gin ; apex dark grey, irrorated 

 with white; a terminal dark line; fringe dark grey, divided by a black line. 

 Secondaries light brown ; veins and terminal line dai'ker; fringe pale, divided by 

 a dark line. Expanse 19 mm. 



Habitat. — Sao Paulo, Brazil. 



Erastria oletta. — Head and thorax light brown. Abdomen and second- 

 aries grey brown. Primaries: basal half reddish brown, crossed by a white inner 

 line, curved in cell, and there preceded by a small grey spot; darker brown 

 streaks in and below cell; reniform marked with white and grey; outer line 

 deeply curved beyond cell, dark grey, inwardly shaded with white and preceded 

 by a white line ; outer margin light brown ; a subterminal darker shade. Sec- 

 ondaries greyish brown. Expanse 17 mm. 



Habitat. — Castro, Parana. 



L.itliaco<lia eastreiiisis. — Head and collar brown. Abdomen grey. 

 Primaries: base to outer line brown ; traces of a black basal and inner line out- 

 wardly shaded with lighter brown; a blackish median shade; orbicular as a 

 white point circled with black; reniform steel grey, edged laterally with light 

 grey; outer line light grey; outer margin lighter brown ; a broad black sul)ter- 

 minal shade from costa to vein 2; fringe brown, with a pale line at base. Sec- 

 ondaries greyish brown, darkest on outer margin ; a dark discal spot ; fringe grey, 

 divided by a black line. Expanse 19 mm. 



Habitat. — Castro, Pai-ana. 



Thalpochares <'OStagiia.— Head, collar and thorax violaceous brown ; 

 patagi* cream color. Abdomen light brown above, darker brown below. Pri- 

 maries : anterior portion of wing, from inner margin near base to costal margin 

 near apex, creamy buff, shaded with light brown on middle of costal margin, 

 where there is also a fine black oblique line ; base of costa finely black ; posterior 

 portion of wing lilacine brown within inner line and on outer margin ; reddish 

 brown between the inner and outer lines ; a small white spot below vein 2 ; the 

 lines only visible on dark portion, finely black, partly shaded with white ; a 

 blackish subterminal shade ; au interrupted black terminal line ; a pale line at 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXX. (21) JUNE. 1904. 



