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outwardly suffused with dark brown ; cilia light reddish brown with 

 whitish tips. 



Expanse 35 mm. 



Hab. Alto da Serra, Santos. 



Chytonix variegata, sp. n. 



(J. Palpi light brown with some fuscous at sides; pectus and 

 coxae dark reddish brown ; legs fuscous and light brown ; mid- 

 tibiae light brown with broad fuscous band at distal end; tarsi 

 ringed with light brown ; f rons ochreous tinged with reddish brown, 

 a few scattered darker scales ; back of head dark purplish brown ; 

 tegulae olive green with broad fuscous band ; patagia pale reddish 

 brown mixed with darker scales, base olive green ; thorax pale 

 reddish brown, metathoracic crest tipped with purplish brown; 

 abdomen pale reddish brown suffused with fuscous. Fore-wings : 

 three obscure dark basal spots above, in and below cell ; an in- 

 distinct wavy dark geminate subbasal line well defined on costa; 

 a wavy dark geminate antemedial line strongly excurved, preceded 

 by dark shades on costa and inner margin ; a medial dark shade ; 

 a fine black postmedial line, clearly defined and preceded by bluish 

 grey, from vein 8 to vein 2 and followed by incurved lunular dark 

 olive mark inwardly rufous and outwardly light olive green; a 

 terminal series of lunular spots between the veins; a large dark 

 pui'ple brown spot on vein 3 enclosing clear white spot ; a dark 

 apical shade confluent with the olivaceous lunular mark; costa 

 olive green from base to postmedial line ; short fuscous streaks on 

 extreme costa; diffused olive green fasciae above veins 1 and 2, 

 the former from before antemedial to postmedial, the latter from 

 antemedial to the dark spot on vein 3 ; orbicular and reniform small, 

 tawny; lower half of cell on medial area buff, upper half suffused 

 with bluish grey; a dark discocellular bar outwardly tawny; cilia 

 reddish brown with dark central line, fuscous at apex and between 

 veins 2 and 4. Hind-wings brown broadly suffused with darker 

 brown on terminal area. 

 Expanse 24 mm. 



Hab. Alto da Serra, Santos. 



Selambina cuprea, sp. n. 



$. Palpi, head, legs, antennae and body cupreous brown. Fore- 

 wings cupreous brown; antemedial line dark, sinuous, excurved 

 above cell, incurved in cell, excurved below cell and slightly incurved 

 to inner margin ; postmedial line dark, broad and diffused, excurved 



