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pattern ; primaries silvery-grey, tinted with pinky- 

 brownish and sulphur-yello^\^ and irrorated with dark 

 brown; costal patch broader and less dentated than in 

 E. albifrons, its lower border sulplmr-yellow, bounded by 

 a broad sepia-brown irregular oblique band or patch; a 

 transverse dentated line bounding the basal area, which is 

 pale sulphur-yellow varied with "dark brown at the base ; 

 a second dentated line across the disc, followed by an 

 undulated submarginal line and an interrupted sinuated 

 marginal line— all these lines black; inner border yellow, 

 brown - speckled ; secondaries dark pinky-brown, with 

 interrupted marginal black line and whity-brown fringe ; 

 body corresponding in colour with the opposite wings ; 

 primaries below dark shining greyish-brown ; costal and 

 apical borders whitish-speckled; four white costal dots 

 towards apex; a submarginal series of black dots; fringe 

 brown, spotted with white at the end of each vein ; secon- 

 daries dark shining greyish-brown, with the costal and 

 abdominal areas broadly whitish; body below whitish: 

 expanse 1 inch 9 lines. 



Aveyros, Kio Tapajos, 11th March, 1874; Boa vista, 

 Eio Jutahi, 1st February, 1875. 



113. Edema mumetes. 



Phalana ( Tortrix) mumetes, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. 

 pi. 82, A. (1779). 

 Rio Mauhes, 5" 30' S., 29th April, 1874; Rio Javary, 

 7th December, 1874. 



Calledema, n. gen. 



Allied to Edema, neuration almost identical ; antennae 

 less_ strongly pectinated in the male ; body much longer, 

 projecting more in fi^ont of the mngs; palpi longer; ab- 

 domen of male with long and dense lateral and terminal 

 compressed pencils of hair scales. 



Type, C. marmorea. 



114. Calledema marmorea, n. sp. 



$ . Primaries above dark greyish-brown, crossed (par- 

 ticularly towards the base) by short blackish parallel lines ; 

 interno-basal area varied with whitish ; orbicular spot 

 small, outhned in whitish; reniform oblong, somewhat 

 constricted towards the centre, outlined in ochraceous 



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