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Type.— Cs^i. No. 33292, U.S.N.M. 

 Nearest N. plumipes Schaus in markings. 



In a series of specimens there is variability in the intensity of the 

 markings. 



NYSTALEA EASTMANI, new species 



Male. — Palpi, with second joint well fringed in front, snuff brown 

 mottled with white hairs. Frons snuff brown with converging buff 

 hairs. Vertex and collar snuff brown. Thorax mostly gray, the 

 tegulae crossed by two faint dark lines. Abdomen above grayish 

 with transverse hair brown lines and light buff tufts at base; under- 

 neath buff white. Fore and mid legs chiefly chestnut brown with 

 light buff transverse lines; hind tibiae clothed with long light buff 

 hairs, the hind tarsi mostly fuscous with white rings. Fore wing: 

 Base from costa to vein 1 expanding below cell, grayish white, crossed 

 by some short black lines limited by the fine and partly double irreg- 

 ular antemedial line; medial space fawn color, widest at costa and 

 cell, limited by a double dark line outbent from costa, angled at vein 

 3, lunular from cell to inner margin; a series of seven black points 

 along middle of cell; postmedial space white, irrorated with some 

 dark scaling and crossed beyond discocellular by a faint outcurved 

 dark line; discocellular white in front; an outbent army brown and 

 black line from vein 5 to vein 4; the postmedial space limited by a 

 double dark lunular line, inbent below vein 2, mostly followed by a 

 cinnamon shade and some verona brown spots; terminal space mostly 

 fawn color; an irregular series of sepia lunules partly preceded by 

 some drab gray shading; whitish irrorations on termen; a broken 

 terminal benzo brown line; cilia white with brown patches on inter- 

 spaces. Hind wing white largely suffused with drab, the veins and 

 termen broadly hair brown. 



Expanse 49 mm. 



Habitat. — British Guiana(?) 



Type.— Cat. No. 33293, U.S.N.M. 



Somewhat like N. Indiana Grote. 



Named in honor of Mr. G. Eastman, a generous contributor to the 

 Dognin fund. 



NYSTALEA JULITHA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi wood brown. Head, collar, and front of thorax fus- 

 cous, thorax otherw^ise and shoulders pale drab gray. Abdomen above 

 drab, underneath huffish. Fore wing pale wood brown; double fus- 

 cous antemedial, medial and postmedial lines on costa; a fine dark 

 streak through cell and on veins from cell; a deeply outangled double 

 line medially, above and below submedian vein; a faint dark line on 

 discocellular; traces of an outcurved postmedial line, better marked 



