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side on inner margin; a subterminal benzo brown shade over veins 7 

 and 8; an oblique sayal brown shade from vein 5 to vein 3 near ter- 

 men; a medial white point on vein 1. Termen rounded below apex 

 then inbent and curved to shght antemedial lobe on inner margin. 

 Hind wing whitish, the veins dark; inner margin hair brown; suffu- 

 sions on termen and stigma sayal brown. 



Expanse 40 mm. 



Habitat. — Sao Paulo de Olivenga, Amazons. 



Type.— C&t. No. 33399, U.S.N.M. 



From the Dognin collection. 



Near H. nigracosta Schaus; differs in shape of fore wing and lines. 



HEMICERAS PRAXIDES, new species 



Male. — Wing shape as in H. eustalhia Schaus. Palpi above prout's 

 brown, underneath white, mottled with pinkish buff at end of second 

 joint, the third joint tipped with white. Head, collar, and thorax 

 cinnamon rufous; some white hairs on frons and betM^een antennae. 

 Abdomen above cinnamon drab, the anal hairs and underside white 

 except the last three segments which are suffused with vinaceous buff. 

 Fore wing vinaceous fawn; costa deep neutral gray streaked with 

 fuscous black and some white scales on subcostal; a fine outbent 

 dark basal line; antemedial line fine, natal brown, outbent, straight 

 from costa to submedian fold, then finer and sinuous; a similar oblique 

 line on discocellular; outer line remote from apex, fine, lunular den- 

 tate, fuscous from vein 8 to vein 6, below 6 barely indicated except 

 as black and white points on veins; an oblique cinnamon shade from 

 below vein 5 to vein 3; a subterminal fuscous shade from vein 8 to 

 below 5, broken by the veins; a few white scales at apex and termi- 

 nally on vein 8; cilia cinnamon brown. Hind wing white, the stigma 

 and termen very narrowly cinnamon brown; cilia white. Hind wing 

 below entirely white. 



Expanse 42 mm. 



Habitat. — Hyutanahan, Rio Purus, Brazil. 



Type. — In Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



Paratype.—C&t. No. 33400, U.S.N.M. 



Differs from H. phocas Schaus in the white hind wing. 



HEMICERAS EUSTALHIA, new species 



Male. — Palpi chestnut brown above, underneath white, mottled at 

 end of second joint with pinkish buff. Frons pinkish buff; a white line 

 between antennae; vertex, collar, and thorax pinkish cinnamon. 

 Abdomen above hair brown, the anal hairs and underside white; ^ 

 light pinkish cinnamon shade ventrally on last two segments. Fore 

 wing : Costa straight, apex acute, termen and tornus obliquely rounded 

 to near base of inner margin, then obliquely upbent, vinaceous fawn; 

 costa iron gray; base narrowly deep mouse gray; medial space deep 



