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visible on costa, in cell and a dot below median; postmedial 

 geminate, strongly excurved beyond cell, the inner member broad 

 and diffused, followed by whitish spot on costa and inner margin, 

 the outer broken into dots and followed by whitish line ; an in- 

 distinct whitish sub-terminal line and a large whitish space at apex ; 

 termen suffused with black and edged with black between the 

 veins. Hind-wings glistening ochreous suffused with brown out- 

 wardly ; a dentate postmedial line with dark points on the veins ; a 

 dark discocellular spot. 

 Expanse 27 mm. 



Hal. Castro, Parana. 



Oligia nydichroa, n. sp, 



^ . Head and thorax violaceous-brown, a few scattered grey scales 

 on tegulse; abdomen ochreous thickly scaled with brown dorsally, 

 anal tuft brown above and fawn-coloured beneath. Fore-wings : 

 basal area very dark; first half of medial area light, second half 

 dark, a black medial fascia; antemedial line geminate, black, en- 

 closing light violaceous, excurved below submedian, on median fold 

 and on costal area ; postmedial geminate, wavy, straight from inner 

 margin to vein 2, bent outwards to above vein 4, incurved to 7 and 

 8, where there is a white spot outwardly dentate, then violently bent 

 inwards to costa ; a sub-terminal row of diffused dark spots ; termen 

 black, interrupted at veins, whitish dots on the veins ; orbicular and 

 reniform purplish-grey, outwardly defined by black ; a whitish spot 

 on costa above reniform followed by three white points and a larger 

 spot at apex. Hind-wings brown : termen dark ; cilia light in- 

 wardly, dark outwardly. 



Expanse 23 mm. 



Hah. River Paeanapanema, Parana. 



Macapta excisa, n. sp. 



^. Thorax pinkish-brown. Fore-wings light brown suffused 

 with roseate, excavated between vein 4 and apex, a minute ochreous 

 spot at base of cell ; a dark brown simple slightly diffused antemedial 

 line, excurved at costa and inner margin, almost straight between ; 

 a dark brown similar postmedial line strongly excurved beyond cell 

 and angled outwards on veins 5, 6 and 7, followed by dark brown 

 dots on veins ; an indistinct suffused brown sub-terminal line bent 

 inwards between veins 2 and 3; reniform creamy-white centrally 

 rufous and defined by brown. Hind-wings brown, basa,! hajlf of 



