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ELYMIOTIS LUPICINA. new species 



Male. — Palpi white mottled with pale purplish gray; a fine black 

 line near upper edge; tip of third joint white. Frons army brown 

 becoming dark slate violet at vertex; white hairs around eyes. 

 Collar and thorax hair brown, the tegulae mottled white and drab 

 gray. Abdomen above light drab; a black segmental line on segment 

 before last, a similar dorsal spot on last segment; tips of anal hairs 

 fuscous. Fore wing light drab, the veins irrorated with black and 

 white; a subbasal lunular black line from subcostal, outbent below 

 cell; a double antemedial, lunular, fuscous line broken below cell, 

 followed by a v/hitish shade from median to near vein 1 ; medial line 

 double, fine, faint, preceded by a vertical velvety fuscous line of 

 raised scales with a short line extending basad on fold; a large round 

 velvety fuscous black spot at lower angle of cell, and a smaller similar 

 spot above it; faint brownish transverse lines beyond cell; a dark 

 shade below base of vein 5; outer line outcurved beyond cell, double, 

 black, punctiform, partly united by a faint crenulate line from costa 

 to vein 5 and with a triangular silvery white spot between veins 5 

 and 4; sub terminal velvety fuscous black spots below veins 7 and 6, 

 a larger duller spot below vein 5 at silvery spot; a submarginal fine 

 black crenulate line, not reaching costa; cilia mottled buflish and 

 hair brown with white points at veins. Hind wing white, the veins 

 and termen broadly hair brown with the usual small spot at anal 

 angle; cilia white. Hind wing below white, the termen more narrowly 

 hair brown with some terminal white mottling, costal margin 

 irrorated with hair brov/n. 



Expanse 39 mm. 



Habitat. — Paraguay. 



Type.— CQ.t. No. 33299, U.S.N.M. 



The subterminal spots on fore wing are unlike any other species of 

 the group. 



ELYMIOTIS DONATIAN, new species 



Male. — Palpi whitish with a lateral black line, the second joint 

 with a fine brown line below it, and a broader vinaceous-rufous line 

 above it. Head whitish irrorated with brown and with double deep 

 brown lines on frons. Collar argus brown with a few scattered 

 black scales. Thorax mottled fawn color and hair brown, the tegu- 

 lae dorsally suffused with brownish drab, laterally with whitish 

 which extends on shoulders. Abdomen above light drab with a 

 dorsal brownish drab tuft at base crossed by a black line, underneath 

 whitish. Fore wing light cinnamon drab suffused with gray, the 

 base and costal margin suffused with pale ecru-drab; a subbasal 

 hazel line forming two deep lunules, double on inner margin; an 

 antemedial vertical, velvety black line from] below cell to inner mar- 

 gin; a medial hazel line across cell followed by broad silvery white 



