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costa and cell to double medial line benzo brown mottled with white 

 and buff scales, limited below by a fuscous line, outbent from base 

 of subcostal to median vein; base of inner margin white irrorated 

 with fuscous and natal brown scales; inner margin to above vein 5 

 mottled white and natal brown, crossed by two dark medial lines 

 and the white postmedial and subterminal lines; the double dark 

 medial line slightly incurved, partly crossing a large fuscous spot in 

 cell; a triangular \vhite and buff space over end of cell and discocel- 

 lular, its apex at vein two, its base on subcostal, slightly irrorated 

 with natal brown, the costa above it natal brown thickly irrorated 

 with white; postmedial line double filled in with whitish on costa, 

 with clear white on inner margin, outbent and sinuous on costa, 

 inbent along vein 6, then deeply lunular dentate to vein 2; a subter- 

 minal white shade preceded by a dark space on costa, with fuscous 

 streaks above and below vein 7, expanding towards cell between 

 veins 6 and 4, then narrow to vein 2 and outbent to tornus; a fine 

 • terminal white line; cilia morocco red, cut by yellowish fine lines at 

 veins; the tips of cilia yellowish. Hind wing huffish suffused with 

 fawn color, the termen broadly army brown; an indistinct medial 

 and postmedial darker shade; cilia tipped with white. 



Expanse 51 mm. 



Habitat. — Blumenau, Brazil. 



Type.— C&t. No. 33316, U.S.N.M. 



PSILACRON CONGALLA, new species 



Male. — Head, collar, and thorax light brownish olive. Abdomen 

 above drab with fine dark segmental lines; some olive buff anal 

 hairs; underneath olive buff with ventral black spots on all the seg- 

 ments. Fore wing suffused with olive ocher; base of costa finely 

 dark purple drab; a similar streak along upper edge of cell to ante- 

 medial line; transverse lines sayal brown, on costa fine; antemedial 

 line double, sinuous, interrupted; medial line wavily outbent and 

 angled between veins 3 and 4 at postmedial, then inbent to middle of 

 inner margin between two small round white spots above vein 1, 

 these spots more darkly edged; a faint pale grayish shade above 

 and below vein 3 at cell; postmedial line double, below costa mostly 

 light yellowish olive, deeply outcurved at vein 6, inbent and lunular 

 to fold, then sinuous, vertical to inner margin; some light vinaceous 

 gray scaling irrorated with black following postmedial between veins 

 5 and 4; a cinnamon shade from apex, inbent and expanding at vein 

 5 crossed by a sayal brown subterminal line which is wavy, broken, 

 ending in an outbent dark line from vein 2 to vein 1 with black 

 points on these veins; a few black hairs on cilia at veins. Hind 

 wing whitish buft' suffused with hair brown forming a broad shade 

 on outer margin; cilia whitish suffused with olive ocher. 



