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GISARA MEYERI, new species 



Male. — Palpi: Basal joints with a lateral hazel line, a black line 

 below it and short black fringe above, below fringed with hair brown; 

 third joint smooth, buff white, with a small fuscous spot at tip. 

 Head light buff, collar buffy brown behind, darker in front and trans- 

 verse whitish hairs between the two. Thorax chestnut brown, the tegu- 

 lae mottled drab, pale drab gray, and white ; lateral white tufts onmeta- 

 thorax. Abdomen above benzo brown; a fuscous white tipped dorsal 

 tuft at base ; anal segment light buff with a fuscous dorsal spot, the 

 long lateral tufts warm buff; underneath light buflBsh drab. Fore 

 wing: Base drab gray crossed by a thick hair brown lunular line, 

 limited by a double fuscous subbasal hne; costal margin and cell 

 benzo brown, the costal edge and a streak below subcostal slate color, 

 the veins slate color with short black streaks, and white streaks on 

 terminal space; an antemedial natal brown double line, irregular and 

 partly broken; medial area below cell to inner margin suffused with 

 slate gray; a natal brown medial curved line in cell, inwardly edged 

 with cinnamon; a faint cinnamon line on discocellular; postmedial 

 line outcurved on costa, then inbent, double, finely wavy, fuscous; 

 a large cream white space at tornus to vein 4 with a small subterminal 

 white spot above it, the upper edge downcurved to vein 3, inbent 

 along 3 and irregularly curved to close to tornus, some black points 

 on veins; subterminal dark spots toward costa; marginal black points 

 partly irrorated with white from vein 7 to vein 4, below 4 some very 

 small black lunules. Hind wing benzo brown, the outer margin 

 broadly fuscous, narrowing to anal angle; cilia white suffused at base 

 with benzo brown. Fore wing below hair brown, the costa termi- 

 nally whitish with dark irrorations; terminal white patches on inter- 

 spaces; marginal black points or lunules; base of cilia partly white. 

 Hind wing below hair brown, the cell and below it to inner margin 

 buff white; cilia white which extends on termen. 



Expanse 56 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Laurent, French Guiana. 



Type.— Cat. No. 33344, U.S.N.M. 



Type collected by Barnes and Schaus; other specimens in Dognin 

 collection. 



Near G. procne Schaus, differs in color, detail of markings, and the 

 very different underside. 



Named in honor of Mr. Eugene Meyer, a contributor to the Dog- 

 nin fund. 



GISARA BREWSTERI, new species 



Male. — Similar to G. procne Schaus = Sambana Druce well figured 

 in the- Biologia. (PL 92, fig. 13.) Differs in having the hind wing 

 white, the veins irrorated with benzo brown, more thickly on termen. 



