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dark olive buff, outcurved from costa, slightly incurved from below 

 vein 3; outer line double and inbent from costa to vein 3, then single; 

 oblique, curved, black marginal streaks on interspaces; terminal black 

 spots. Hind wing hair brown, the inner margin broadly warm buff; 

 a postmedial fuscous line, outangled on inner margin ; traces of a sub- 

 terminal line, well marked at anal angle; ciha white. Fore wing 

 below deep quaker drab, the margins maize yellow. Hind wing below 

 maize yellow, suffused below costa and subterminally with deep 

 quaker drab. 



Expanse 63 mm. 



Habitat. — Buena Vista, Colombia. 



Type.— C&t. No. 33358, U.S.N.M. 



MERAGISA SIMEONA, new species 



Male. — Antenna with the fascicles more developed than in any 

 other species of the genus. Palpi chestnut brown fringed with drab 

 gray. Head and collar mottled white and chestnut brown. Thorax 

 and tegulae pale smoky gray with a few drab hairs. Abdomen above 

 hair brown; some cinnamon scaling at base; anal segment white irro- 

 rated with hair brown; underside light buff. Fore wing white; base 

 just below cell and middle area irrorated with wood brown; some 

 black scales form an indistinct subbasal line; an antemedial chestnut 

 brown line, double, thick, finely dentate, outbent to median vein, then 

 fainter, lunular, vertical to vein 1 and outbent on inner margin ; inner 

 margin from near base to outer line broadly suffused with light cin- 

 namon drab; discocellular with a fine fuscous line edged with white; 

 postmedial line extremely faint, light cinnamon drab, outcurved 

 around cell; outer line fuscous lunular, inbent from costa to vein 4 

 followed by orange cinnamon spots, slightly outset below vein 4 and 

 again inbent with only faint traces of orange cinnamon beyond; a 

 marginal deeply curved black line, partly cut by veins on termen ; cilia 

 white. Hind wing drab, the inner margin light buff; ciHa white. 



Expanse 45 mm. 



Habitat. — Monte Tolima, Quindiu, Colombia. 



Type.—Csit. No. 33359, U.S.N.M. 



Two males and a female from the Dognin collection. 



MERAGISA EUTHYMIA.ncw species 



Male. — Palpi fuscous with a few white hairs in fringe. Head, col- 

 lar, and thorax mottled pallid neutral gray and army brown, the lat- 

 ter forming a conspicuous dorsal patch on collar and front of thorax; 

 light buff lateral tufts from metathorax. Abdomen above suffused 

 with cinnamon on basal segment, the following segments hair brown, 

 the last two segments white irrorated with hair brown; underside 

 light buff". Fore wing white rather thickly irrorated with drab; 

 costa grayish olive at base ; a wavy subbasal fuscous line with some 



