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Expanse 52 mm. 



Habitat. — British Guiana; Amatura, Amazons. 



Type.~Cat. No. 33296, U.S.N.M. 



ELYMIOTIS CORANA, new species 



Male. — Palpi almost entirely dark purplish on first two joints, the 

 end of second joint, tips of fringe and third joint dull brown. Frons 

 dull brown or huffish with a black spot and diverging black lines. 

 Collar and thorax sayal brown, with a black transverse line on meta- 

 thorax, the tegulae mostly white with a few black scales and clay 

 color scales on dorsal edge. Abdomen above drab with black seg- 

 mental line and spot at end of body, also black tips to anal hairs; 

 underneath whitish with three black lines more or less interrupted. 

 Fore wing silvery drab gray, the lines fuscous; a black mark at base 

 of costa; subbasal line double to fold, lunuiar; antemedial line 

 double, oblique on costa, inbent along subcostal, outbent and angled 

 on median, with dark lines below it in cell, below median inset with 

 raised velvety fuscous black scales vertically to vein 1 ; a small vel- 

 vety spot at lower angle of cell, and one above it slightly outset; a 

 dark shade above median and vein 4 to outer line with a fine, inter- 

 rupted line above it; a whitish shade from base of veins 4 to 2 to 

 outer line; outer line black on costa, sinuous, outbent, then out- 

 curved, lunuiar and inbent to near middle of inner margin, a tri- 

 angular white mark on it between veins 5 and 4; the terminal area 

 suffused with drab between veins 4 and 6; veins 5 and 6 broadly 

 black, and velvety fuscous black' streaks above veins 4, 5, and 6; a fine 

 submarginal crenulate black line; a terminal dark line; cilia wood 

 brown wdth fuscous spots at veins. Hind wing benzo brown, with 

 traces of white in cell, and sometimes along inner margin, below and 

 beyond cell; cilia white; the usual double spot at anal angle. 



The female is more uniformly drab gray, the lines less prominent, 

 the spots on discocellular smaller. Both sexes have the hind wing 

 below white, the termen broadly hair brown, narrower, and interrupted 

 at anal angle. 



Expanse, male, 48 mm.; female, 54 mm. 

 Habitat. — Mexico to French Guiana. 

 Type.— C&t. No. 33297, U.S.N.M. 



This species has been called longara vStoll, attenuata Walker, and 

 ancora Feld. According to Stoll's figure and description of longara 

 the antennae are pectinated; attenuata Walker is a smaller species 

 from Venezuela of which we have a male and three females; ancora 

 Fielder is also small and represents a species allied to E. complicata 

 Dognin. In the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 

 (1901, p. 272), I placed purpurascens Butler as a synonym of attenuata; 

 described from a female, it belongs to a distinct species. 



