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Expanse 55 mm. 



Habitat. — Guapiles, Costa Rica. 



Type.— Cat. No. 33403, U.S.N.M. 



HEMICERAS ARBOGASTA, new species 



Female. —Palpi above mikado brown, underneath white suffused 

 with light pinkish cinnamon toward end. Head, collar, and thorax 

 orange cinnamon, the tegulae suffused with vinaceous drab. Abdo- 

 men above light drab, underneath vinaceous fawn. Fore wing fawn 

 color; antemedial line fine, black, outbent and curved across median, 

 inangled, slightly outbent forming two slight lunules, with black 

 points on veins, preceded by a slight cinnamon rufous shade; a slight 

 blackish line on discocellular, and dark shade medially from below 

 cell to inner margin; postmedial line from costa well before apex, fine, 

 black, lunular with black points on veins, below vein 2 incurved, 

 followed by a broad cinnamon rufous shade, more distinct from costa 

 to vein 5 and from vein 2 to inner margin; an oblique cinnamon 

 brown shade from vein 4 to below vein 3 and termen near tornus. 

 Hind wing whitish, the veins and termen broadly pinkish cinnamon; 

 cilia tipped with white. 



Expanse 49 mm. 



Habitat. — Nova Olinda, Rio Purus, Brazil. 



Type. — In Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



Paratype. —C&t. No. 33404, U.S.N.M. 



The inner margin of fore wing is only slightly sinuous. 



The nearest allied species is H. brunnea Schaus. 



HEMICERAS TURNINA, new species 



Male. — Palpi, head, collar, and thorax vinaceous fawn, the palpi 

 fringed below with white. Abdomen above cinnamon drab, under- 

 neath fawn color. Fore wing avellaneous suffused with vinaceous 

 fawn, the lines fine, wood brown with well marked black points ; 

 antemedial line with the subcostal and point on fold in a line, the 

 point on median and vein 1 outset, the line darker on inner margin; 

 postmedial line with points inbent to middle of inner margin, the 

 faint connecting line better defined below vein 2, outangled from 2 

 to point on fold, and forming a lunule on inner margin; very faint 

 subterminal darker shading; a fine dark streak on discocellular. 

 Hind wing whitish suffused with fawn color, especially on termen, 

 the stigma benzo brown, ciha tipped with white. 



Expanse 46 mm. 



Habitat. — Yahuarmayo, Peru. 



Ty2)e.— C&t. No. 33405, U.S.N.M. 



From the Dognin collection. 



Allied to H. subocliraceum Walker. 



