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MERAGISA POLYCARPA, new species 



Male. — Palpi fuscous above edged laterally with army brown, the 

 fringe white. Frons mottled white, fuscous and cinnamon. Vertex 

 white and fuscous with an angled fuscous hne in front. Collar 

 white and fuscous crossed by a fuscous line and edged with fuscous 

 behind. Thorax white and fuscous. Abdomen above light drab; 

 underneath buff white. Fore wing whitish thicklj^ irrorated and 

 mottled with buffy brown producing a darker shade toward apex; a 

 fine basal black line from costa to cell; a double fuscous subbasal 

 line, outbent on costa, inbent in cell, slightly outcurved below cell, 

 followed from fold to vein 1 by a dusky neutral gray spot; anteme- 

 dial line double benzo brown, outcurved, lunular; a short black line 

 on discoceliular; postmedial line, double, benzo brown, lunular den- 

 tate, the inner part fuscous betw^een veins 5 and 2, with long projecting 

 points on veins, almost reaching the marginal line, this latter consist- 

 ing of small black spots toward apex, below vein 6 of small black 

 lunules; terminal black points on interspaces, and short lines on tips 

 of veins; cilia mottled white and cinnamon drab. Hind wing huffish 

 drab, broadly benzo brown on outer margin; cilia white. 



Female. — Fore wing with fewer dark mottlings, but the dark shade 

 beyond cell toward apex, partly fuscous, the postmedial line between 

 veins 2 and 3 heavily marked. 



Expanse, male, 34 mm.; female, 35 mm. 



Habitat. — Hyutanahan, Rio Purus, Brazil. 



Type. — In Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



Paratype.—Csit. No. 33362, U.S.N.M. 



Closely allied to M. arenosa Schaus. 



DUGONIA, new genus 



Female. — Antenna serrate with short fascicles of hairs at base, then 

 ciliate to middle. Palpi slightly upturned, long, the second joint 

 thickly scaled, the third smooth. Legs smooth, the mid tibia with a 

 long and a short terminal spur, the hind tibia with two pairs of long 

 spurs, the outer terminal spur short. Fore wing long and rather 

 narrow, the termen somewhat crenulate; vein 2 from beyond middle of 

 cell; 3 and 4 from lowxr angle; 5 from middle of discoceliular; areole 

 short originating at end of cell; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8 and 9, 10 from 

 end of areole; 11 free. Hind wing: Costa straight; apex rounded; 

 termen somewhat obtuse below vein 2 to anal angle; cell half the 

 length of wing; vein 2 well before lower angle; 4 and 5 from lower 

 angle; 6 and 7 from upper angle; 8 diverging from cell before middle. 



Genotype. — Dugonia eliera, new species. 



DUGONIA ELIERA, new species 



Female. — Palpi mikado brown irrorated with white. Head and 

 neck mottled cinnamon and v.hite. Collar and thorax mikado brown. 

 Abdomen above fuscous, the anal hairs white; underneath white 



