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LOBEZA GILBERTA, new species 



Male. — Palpi cinnamon brown at base, fuscous above, otherwise 

 white. Head and collar white mottled with deep mouse gray and 

 sayal brow^n; thorax grayish white with a few dark hairs. Abdomen 

 above cinnamon brown with dorsal w^hite spots, and fine dark seg- 

 mental lines, the last segment and tips of anal hairs white, the former 

 irrorated with fuscous; underneath white banded with mouse gray. 

 Fore wing white irrorated with fuscous, very slightly on medial area; 

 antemedial line fine, dark, with a few" warm buff scales, inset below 

 median then outbent to middle of inner margin; discocellular mark 

 clear white with a dark point at lower angle of cell; postmedial line 

 fine, formed by chestnut brown scales, lunular slightly incurved 

 opposite cell and below vein 3 followed by a parallel fine of brownish 

 dusting; terminal line fine, expanding at veins; no spots at cilia on 

 interspaces, only a few dark scales at veins. Hind wing white; a 

 faint dark medial line, punctiform on veins; a slight dark postmedial 

 shade. 



The female is more thickly irrorated on fore wing w^ith dark scales, 

 the lines more pronounced; dark spots on cilia on interspaces; hind 

 wing largely suffused v/ith drab on terminal half. 



Expanse, male, 58 mm.; female, 70 mm. 



Habitat. — St, Jean, Alaroni River, French Guiana. 



Type.— C&t. No. 33374, U.S.N.M. 



Three males and tw^o females in the United States National 

 Museum. 



Belongs to the L. aglone group. 



LOBEZA HUACAMAYA. new species 



Male. — Palpi carob brown fringed with white. Frons M'hite, later- 

 ally carob brown. Vertex and tegulae white with a few black scales. 

 Collar mottled white and fuscous, the anterior edge carob brown. 

 Metathorax mottled black, orange buff and w^hite. Abdomen above 

 white with mouse gra}'^ segmental lines; underside light buff. Fore 

 wing white thinly irrorated with black scales; antemedial line fine 

 orange buff with black irrorations, irregularly outcurved to below cell, 

 then out bent to the medial line near inner margin; a small annulus 

 on discocellular closely followed by the fine vertical medial shade 

 which- is dentate on its outer edge. Postmedial line fuscous black, 

 consisting of lunuies, outbent on costa, then slightly inhent to vein 3 

 and vertical preceded by a clearer white space, and followed by a 

 parallel line mottled with ochraceous orange, broadly irrorated beyond 

 with fuscous and ochraceous orange scales to the faint whitish sub- 

 terminal shade; a marginal black lunular line cut at tips of veins; 

 cilia white with small fuscous spots on interspaces. Hind wing white 

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