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purplish-brown. Fore-wings chestnut-brown with conspicuous dark 

 slightly excurved ante- and post-medial lines ; a minute white spot 

 near apex above vein 6 ; a minute dark point on discocellulars. 

 Hind-wings chestnut-brown, ochreous at base. Under-side : fore- 

 wings chestnut-brown, basal half, except costa, suffused with grey ; 

 white apical spot somewhat larger than on upper side ; hind-wings 

 chestnut-brown. 

 Expanse 40 mm. 



Hab. Castro, Parana. 



Apatelodcs ptaulista, n. sp. 



^ . Palpi rufous-brown ; head and thorax grey ; antennoo ochreous ; 

 abdomen yellowish brown. Fore-wings grey irro rated witli yellowish- 

 brown ; a light brown wavy antemedial band ; postmedial broader 

 than antemedial, the outer edge being scalloped and darker than tlie 

 rest ; termen suffused with brown ; cilia brown ; a whitish dlscal 

 spot. Hind-wings yellowish-brown ; indistinct medial and post- 

 medial lines ; cilia grey. Under-side : fore-wings yellow-brown ; 

 medial and postmedial diffused brown lines, the latter followed by 

 brown shade : hind-wings yellow-V)rown ; similar lines to fore- 

 wing, the postmedial angled outwards on vein 5 ; terminal area 

 suffused with grey ; a white discal spot. 



$ . Very similar to ,^ but darker ; the dark shade following post- 

 medial line on under-side of wings being much more conspicuous 

 than in ^ and followed by greyish-white band. 



Expanse (^ 47 mm., 9 57 mm. 



Hah. Sao Paulo, S.E. Brazil. 



Tarcma ficscosa. 



(J . Head antennse and collar greyish olivaceous-brown, the latter 

 paler posteriorly; thorax and abdomen olivaceous-brown. Fore- 

 wings pale greyish-brown suffused on basal and medial areas with 

 fuscous, and on terminal area with reddish-brown ; antemedial line 

 dark ; postmedial light, from beyond middle of inner margin to 

 f on costa followed by whitish line from tornus to near apex, en- 

 closing between them a dark space, reddish-brown below vein 4 

 and olivaceous above 4 ; from the last line to termen a dark shade, 

 crossed by light line on vein 7, below which it is suffused with 

 reddish-brown ; a club-shaped whitish streak at the end of cell 

 enclosing fuscous streak ; a suffused reddish tinge at base and on 

 inner margin. Hind-wings, basal half and inner margin to near 



