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deep slaty brown; costa black with a double outangled fine white 

 antemedial line; black lines in cell with fine light drab scaling between 

 them; the subcostal vein mottled with drab and fuscous; outer edge 

 of basal half edged with fuscous black faintly inbent, straight from 

 costa to below cell, slightly incurved across vein 2 and outbent to 

 inner margin where it is preceded by a small patch of vinaceous buff 

 and cinnamon; outer half of wing shell pink shading to pinkish cin- 

 namon on termen; an elongated fuscous black spot on costa, pre- 

 ceded by a black postmedial point from which a faint huffish line 

 crosses the wing; three fine indistinct outer lines slightly inbent, the 

 first crenulate, all with dark points on veins; a subterminal whitish 

 line defined by cinnamon, outbent from costa to vein 7 at termen, 

 then sinuous and bilunular on interspaces with outwardly a few 

 dark scales forming a distinct spot on termen below vein 2. Hind 

 wing buff white, the apex and termen somewhat suffused with cin- 

 namon; a small fuscous spot at anal angle. 



Expanse 63 mm. 



Habitat. — Hj^utanahan, Rio Purus, Brazil. 



Type. — In Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



Paratype.— Cut. No. 33302, U.S.N.M. 



Named in honor of Mr. Edward Severin Clark. 



LYSANA MINASENSIS, new species 



Male. — Palpi: First and second joints ochraceous tawny, not 

 reaching end of second joint; third joint and fringe mottled white 

 and pale drab gray. Head, high tufts from base of antennae, collar 

 and thorax mottled w^hite, snuff brown and pale brownish drab. 

 Abdomen above avellaneous with white segmental lines; anal tufts 

 produced medially, extended laterally, light buff tippe^ with snuff 

 brown; underneath light buff with faint grayish segmental bands. 

 Fore wings vinaceous buff; a fine fuscous basal line on costa to within 

 cell; a subbasal cinnamon drab line outcurved on costa to middle of 

 cell, then inbent, with short projecting cinnamon brown shades below 

 median and below a fine white line which extends through middle of 

 cell onto base of vein 4; a double, sinous, brownish olive antemedial 

 line on costa to white line in cell, closely followed by a finer brown- 

 ish olive line outangled on subcostal, then inbent to near vein 1, with 

 a slight twist on white cellular line, inwardly edged with white to 

 cellular line and outwardly edged with white below it, followed from 

 within cell by a broad brownish olive shade edged partly with fuscous 

 scales, this shade is inangled on inner edge above fold, its outer edge 

 incurved and has a short fuscous black line at its end in cell down- 

 bent to lower angle of cell; a similar dark streak oblique on upper 

 part of discocellular, preceded by a dark velvety point in cell, edged 

 with white; a double olive brown line on costa above end of cell, with 



