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subterminal dark shade. Hind wing chiefly hght buff; a broad fawn 

 color shade from base before inner margin to termen, the stigma 

 army brown; some fawn color suffusions on termen; costa postmedi- 

 ally Hght ochraceous buff; cilia sUghtly tipped with white, wings 

 below light buff, the apical third of fore wing mostly suffused with 

 vinaceous cinnamon. 



Expanse 50 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Laurent, French Guiana. 



Type.— C&t. No. 33389, U.S.N.M. 



From the Dognin collection. 



Allied to H. modesta; differs in color and in having a subbasal lino. 



HEMICERAS TURIAFA, new species 



Male. — Palpi prout's brown, the fringe pale pinkish cinnamon. 

 Head, collar, and thorax mottled cinnamon and white, the frontal 

 tufts with white predominating; tegulae dorsally edged with white. 

 Abdomen above drab, the base with long avellaneous hairs; under- 

 neath Hght buff. Fore wing with the inner margin straight, silky 

 fawn color with a slight olive tinge slightly irrorated with whitish; 

 some light buff hairs at base of inner margin, the lines fine, prout's 

 brown; basal hne outwardly pale edged forming a lunule on costa 

 and one below cell; antemedial line inwardly edged with whitish, out- 

 angled on costa and in cell at vein 2, incurved to vein 1 and outcurved; 

 medial space below fold to tornus thickly mottled with fuscous and 

 lilac gray scales; the discocellular and veins from cell fuscous irro- 

 rated with white, cut by the postmedial line which is finely edged 

 with white, also w^ith white points at some of the veins, straight from 

 costa well before apex to vein 1 and is slightly outcurved below it; 

 costal edge finely white except at base; a subterminal fuscous shade 

 parallel with postmedial; terminal interspaces without white irro- 

 rations. Hind wing and stigma cinnamon drab; cilia white. 



Expanse 31 mm. 



Habitat. — Hyutanahan, Rio Purus, Brazil. 



Type. — In Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



Paratype.—C&t. No. 33390, U.S.N.M. 



HEMICERAS CLIMACA, new species 



Male. — Palpi above hay's russet, second joint fringed with whitish 

 irrorated with russet hairs, first joint fringed with pure white. Head, 

 collar, and thorox vinaceous cinnamon thickly mottled with white 

 hairs. Abdomen above suffused with light pinkish cinnamon; under- 

 neath buff white. Fore wing light cinnamon drab, darker shaded 

 medially from cell to inner margin where it extends beyond postmedial 

 line; costa narrowly white to postmedial Hne; a small subbasal black 

 and white spot belov/ ceU; Hues light buff finely darker shaded on 



