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Expanse 36 mm. 



Habitat. — Nova Olinda, Hyutanahan, Rio Purus, Brazil. 



Type. — In Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 

 . Pam^?/2>^..— Cat. No. 33356, U.S.N. M. 



Allied to CJiadisra extranea Schaus, which is darker and has none 

 of the buff yellow markings on fore wing. 



MERAGISA SAL VINA, new species 



Male. — Palpi black fringed with, white and buffy brown hairs. 

 Head, collar, and front of thorax mottled white and buff brown, the 

 thorax otherwise and tegulae mostly white; from metathorax later- 

 ally and behind light buff tufts. Abdomen above drab with faint 

 white segmental lines, the base with cinnamon scaling, the anal seg- 

 ments white with a few dark scales; underneath light buff. Fore 

 wing white irrorated with wood brown, the costal edge light buff; a 

 subbasal massicot yellow line, inbent outwardly edged with army 

 brown scales; antemedial and outer lines double, buffy brown filled 

 in with massicot yellow, the former outset in cell, faintly outbent 

 below cell; a dark medial line from costa to median vein, its outer 

 edge with a massicot 3^ellow line on discocellular; postmedial line 

 very fine wood brown, lunular, incurved opposite cell and below vein 3; 

 outer line lunular, incurved from costa, outset between veins 4 and 3, 

 then again incurved; fuscous marginal semicurved lines, and fuscous 

 terminal spots, forming a line toward apex. Hind wing drab, the 

 inner margin cream buff; cilia white. 



Expanse 54 mm. 



HaMtat. — Cayuga, Guatemala. 



Type.— Cht. No. 33357, U.S.N.M. 



Allied to M. pallescens Schaus and M. cloacina Dognin, but not 

 so white. ^ 



MERAGISA VISTARA, new epecies 



Male. — Palpi black above, not reaching tips; fringe white with a 

 few dark hairs. Head, collar, and thorax mottled with white and 

 fuscous hairs; a transverse fuscous line on collar; metathorax with 

 warm buff hairs. Abdomen above cinnamon on two basal segments, 

 then wood brown overlaid with deep olive buff hairs, the last two 

 segments white irrorated with black; underneath warm buff. Fore 

 wing silvery white irrorated with buffy brown, the subcostal veins 

 from cell, and vein 1 tinged with olive buff; the antemedial and outer 

 lines black, double, filled in with deep olive buff, also the subbasal 

 line on costa, subbasal line double on costa, inbent, single, excurved 

 and outbent below cell; antemedial line inbent on costa, outset in 

 cell, lunular and outbent below cell to inner margin; a white spot on 

 discocellular with a black and M-arm buff line, above it on costa a 

 faint dark outbent line; postmedial line very fine, lunular dentate, 



