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Family URANIID^E. 



Genus HEMIOPLISIS Herrich-Schaeffer. 

 HEMIOPLISIS IMMACULATA, new species. 



Forewing. — Pale ochreou!;;, covered with .short brown .striations and 

 washed with pale brown; outer line fairly distinct, pale ochreous out- 

 wardly edged with rufous, oblique outwards from three-fourths of 

 costa, ang'led on vein 7, then oblique to three-fifths of inner margin; 

 basal area slightly darker, limited by a very obscurely marked basal 

 line, of wdiich the upper arm runs from one-fourth of costa to middle 

 of cell parallel to upper arm of outer line, the lower portion also run- 

 ning parallel to that of the outer line; fringe brownisli. 



lllndwing. — With the line postmedian, slightl}' bent outwards at 

 middle. 



Underside paler, without markings. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings; face and front of forelegs 

 dark brown. 



Expanse of ivlngs. — 27 nmi. 



Habitat. — Grenada, British West Indies; 1 male; nearest to H. fal- 

 Uw Warren from Venezuela. 



Jy^^.— Cat. No. 8940, U.S.N.M. 



