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medial sides, both from just below costa; antemedial line almost ver- 

 tical, the postmedial remote from apex to close beyond middle of inner 

 margin; subterminal darker shading from costa to vein 2; the veins 

 white irrorated with fuscous. Hind wing white, the termen narrowly 

 suffused with cinnamon drab, the stigma the same color. 



Expanse 34 mm. 



Habitat. — Paso de San Juan, Mexico; Chiriqui, Panama. 



Type— C&t. No. 33391, U.S.N.M. 



Belongs to the group of H. transducta Walker. 



HEMICERAS JOINVILLIA. new species 



Male. — Palpi cameo brown above; second joint mottled white and 

 fuscous laterally and below, the third joint fuscous at base fringed 

 with white. Head, collar, and thorax mottled buffy brown and white. 

 Abdomen above benzo brown, underneath and anal hairs light buflF. 

 Fore wing glossy buffy brown, the veins fuscous irrorated with white, 

 the white irrorations spread over the wing; inner margin deeply lobed; 

 lines army brown; antemedial line straight, outbent to lobe, inwardly 

 edged with huffish; postmedial line remote from apex inbent to inner 

 margin just beyond lobe, outwardly edged with light buff; space 

 beyond line to near termen darker shaded, its outer edge wavy; three 

 very faint dark discal marks. Hind wing whitish, mostly suffused 

 with bronzy cinnamon drab, the stigma benzo brown. Fore wing 

 below with inner margin white, otherwise mostly suffused with benzo 

 brown. Hind wing below buff white. 



Expanse 40 mm. 



Hahitat. — Joinville, Brazil. 



Type.— Cat. No. 33392, U.S.N.M. 



From the Dognin collection. 



Allied to //. dentata Dognin and H. postica Maassen, both having the 

 postmedial line remote from apex and a lobe on inner margin; in H. 

 dentata the lobe is equally pronounced, in H. postica less so. 



HEMICERAS CHROMONA, new species 



Male. — Palpi snuff brown above, underneath white, suffused 

 toward end with sayal brown. Frons vinaceous cinnamon with a 

 white line between antennae. Collar vinaceous cinnamon, finely 

 edged behind with white. Thorax vinaceous buff. Abdomen above 

 suffused with light drab, underneath buff white. Fore wing vina- 

 ceous buff produced by cinnamon buff thickly irrorated on a pinkish 

 buff ground; the lines fine, straight, the antemedial nearly vertical, 

 fuscous, inwardly pale edged, the postmedial from costa at apex to 

 near middle of inner margin, cinnamon, inwardly darker edged, out- 

 wardly pale edged; a small round black spot at end of cell, sometimes 

 almost evanescent; small dark subterminal points on veins 3 and 4. 



