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VOL. XAIX. 



MIRESA CLARISSA Stoll. 



Phalfcna Clarissa STOhh, Pap. Exot., Siippl., 1790, pi. xxxiv, fig. 8. 

 Strehlota Clarissa HvBiiER, Verz. bek. Schmett, 1816, p. 193. 

 Nyssia argentata Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., V, 1855, p. 1134. 

 Miresa (irgenfnfa Dyar, Joiirn. N. Y. Ent. Soc, VI, 1898, p. 235. 



Localities. — Brazil; Dutch Guiana. 



MIRESA VENOSA, new species. 



Structurally' allied to anjentea. Both' yellow, palpi and leg's brown, 

 patagia brownish tinted. Fore wings red-brown at base, thinly and 

 erectly scaled beyond the cell and above vein 2, more grayish, the 

 veins lined with black. A blackish discal dot. A yellow patch on 

 submedian fold below middle of cell and another at tornus. Two 

 faintl}' indicated blackish lines outwardly, formed by intensification of 

 the venular streaks, below the cell passing between the two yellow 

 spots and becoming brownish. Between them some of the raised 

 scales have a silvery sheen. Hind wings pale yellow. 



Expanse. — 24 mm. 



Locality. — Two males, San Salvador, Central America, in the collec- 

 tion of M. Paul Dognin. 



MIRESA ARGENTEA Druce. 



Eupalia argentea Druce, Biol. Cent.-Ain., Lep. Het., I, 1887, p. 218. 

 Miresa argentea, Dyar, Jonrn. N. Y. p]nt. Soc, VI, 1898, p. 235. 



Localities. — Mexico; Central America. 



Genus VIPSANIA Druce. 



Vipsania Druce, Biol. Cent.-Am., Lep. Het., I, 1887, p. 217. 

 Vijisania Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, VI, 1898, p. 236. 



VIPSANIA ANTICLEA Druce. 

 Vipsania anticlea Druce, Biol. Cent. -Am., Lep. Het., I, 1887, p. 217. 

 Localities. — Mexico; Central America. Only females are known. 



VIPSANIA UNICOLOR, new species. 



Entirely dark brown with a sericeous reflection. The fore wings 

 have the scales arranged in wavy strigaj, but are without markings. 



Expanse. — 36 mm. 



Locality. — One female, Palma Sola, Venezuela, in the collection of 

 the U. S. National Museum. This is not strictly a Vipsania^ as the 

 costa is convex and the hind tibiae have short end spurs only; l)ut I 

 prefer to leave it here till the male is discovered. 



Type.— Cat. No. 8981, U.S.N.M. 



Genus EPICLEA, new genus. 



Male antenme bipectinated, the last dozen joints simple. Palpi 

 slender, curved, nearly porrect, one-and-a-half times as long as head; 



