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1949; paratype No. 6, W. D. F. No. 3205, 1949; paratype No. 7, 

 W. D. F. No. 3206; paratype No. 8, W. D. F. No. 3207, 1949) ; and 

 paratype No. 9, male (Costa Rica; H. Schmidt; $ genitalia prepara- 

 tion W. D. F. No. 3229, 1949) . 



Location of types. — Holotype and paratypes Nos. 1-6 in the United 

 States National Miisenm. Paratype No. 9 in the British Museum 

 (Natural History). Paratype No. 7 in the American Museum of 

 Natural Plistory. Paratype No. 8 in the collection of Cornell 

 University. 



Distribution. — Mexico : State of Vera Cniz., between La Gloria and 

 Cardel. Honduras: Rio Temas. Costa Rica: Department of San 

 Jose^ San Jose. 



Comparative remurhs. — Aside from the readily discernible dif- 

 ferences in the genitalia this species differs from all the others except 

 E. icterinus in having the hindwing salmon-pink instead of yellow 

 or orange-yellow. It is easily distinguished from icterirms by having 

 the vertex of the head white instead of yellow or orange-yellow. 



A single specimen from San Jose, Costa Rica, differs from typical 

 roseata in having the hindwings above and below Avhite instead of 

 salmon-pink. Whether this specimen is an aberration or a faded 

 specimen cannot be ascertained. It was not included in the type 

 series. 



Reinarks. — Twelve specimens (including the genitalia preparations 

 of all these) were studied. 



EPEIROMULONA THYSANATA, new species 



Plate 42, Figures 4, 4a, 4b ; Plate 45, Figure 11 ; Plate 46, Figures 30, 31 



Gaudeator (?) phelina (Druce), Forbes nee Druce, in part.. Bull. Mu.s. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 84, No. 4, p. 183. August 1939. 



Male (pi. 46, fig. 30). — Palpus and frons pale yellowish white. 

 Vertex of head, base of antenna, patagium, tegula, and nota of thorax 

 white. A black spot in middle of thorax and another on base of 

 tegula. Legs yellow and banded as in E. lephiiia, but with apex of 

 first femur black. Abdomen pale orange-yellow, whitish at the base 

 above. Wings above similar to lephina and E. phelina., differing in 

 the fringe of outer margin of f orewing. In E. thysanata this fringe 

 is orange next to the margin with black scales opposite middle of 

 wing, these scales usually covering entire width of fringe. Beyond 

 these black and orange basal scales the fringe is fuscous. The black 

 fringe scales here described represent a change in position of the black 

 spot found in E. phelina and other species on the margin of the wing 

 inward from the fringe (i. e., not in the basal scales of the fringe). 

 Hindwing above similar to phelina and lephina., differing in having 

 fringe of outer margin fuscous along apical third of wing. 



