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SYNTRICHURA VIRENS Butler var. REBA Druce. 



Habitat. — -Suapure, Venezuelsi. 



EUMENOGASTER NOTABILIS Walker var. CAURENSIS, new variety. 



Male. — Head, thorax, and leg's brown-black; palpi in front, some 

 hair on frons, streaks behind eyes, spots on basal joint of antennae, 

 patches on fore and hind coxte, and on outer end of fore femorte white; 

 vertex and tegulse with some yellowish hair; patagia with streak of 

 3'^ellow hair, and the inner edge and posterior part fringed with yellow 

 and brown hair which are long behind; metathorax with similar long 

 hair; hind tarsi yellow beneath; abdomen with the first three segments 

 brown-black, and the others dark red becoming brown at extremity'; 

 the first segment with slight dorsal yellow tufts; subdorsal spots on 

 front of second segment, and the front half of third dorsal segment 

 silvery; the fourth dorsal segment with or without silvery line on front; 

 the anterior two-thirds of third segment, and the front of fourth seg- 

 ment silvery beneath; wing^s yellowish hyaline, the veins and margins 

 brown. Fore wing with ver}^ long scarlet subcostal sti'eak; some 

 yellow scales below base of cell; the area between discocellulars and 

 apex clouded by being sparsel}'^ irrorated with black and crimson 

 scales; the terminal band rather broad and slightly expanded toward 

 apex. The veins on underside of both wings j^ellowish. 



Expanse. — 30-32 mm. 



/7a&*^5a?!.— Suapure, Venezuehi. 



Types.— Cdit. No. 8424, U.S.N.M., and in collection of the author. 



This form is very much like notahiUsWdX^QY., and should be i-egarded 

 as a variety of it as herein considered. 



EUMENOGASTER HiEMACERA Hampson. 



IlaMtat. — Suapure, Venezuela. 



SESIURA SMARAGDINA Walker. 



Habitat. — Suapure, Venezuela. 



CHRYSOSTOLA MELLINA Herrick-Schaffer. 



Habitat. — Suapure, Venezuehi. 



CHRYSOSTOLA ^QUALIS Walker. 



Habitat. — Suapure, Venezuela. 



PSEUDARGYROEIDES, new genus. 



Proboscis well developed; palpi upturned, not reaching vertex of 

 head; antennse bipectinate, with short branches, the shaft dilated at 

 middle; tibae with the spurs moderate, the fore and middle tibiae 



