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some hazel irrorations. Abdomen above hair brown, paler toward 

 end, underneath buff white. Fore wing white thinly irrorated with 

 hazel; antemedial line fine, outcurved, wavy, marked with some 

 fuscous scales; a faint light drab, oblique shade on discocellular; 

 postmedial line from a small chestnut brown spot on costa, outbent 

 below vein 8 fuscous, fine, deepl}'^ lunular wavy, inbent to inner mar- 

 gin at middle; terminal space beyond postmedial from vein 6 to 

 inner margin drab ; cilia white irrorated with haze) . Hind wing and 

 stigma cinnamon brown; cilia tipped with white. Hind wing below 

 white; veins terminally and a narrow shade on termen from vein 7 

 to vein 2 cinnamon; some similar scaling at base of costa. 



Expanse 48 mm. 



Habitat. — Hyutanahan, Rio Purus, Brazil. 



Type. — In Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



Paratype.—C&t. No. 33408, U.S.N.M. 



A close ally of S. lepidodes Dognin. 



HAPIGIA DUPONTI, new species 



Male. — Palpi vinaceous drab. Head, collar, and tegulae cinnamon 

 drab, the thorax vinaceous drab. Abdomen above brownish drab or 

 fuscous, underneath light buff suffused with vinaceous. Fore wing 

 light cinnamon drab with three oblique cinnamon drab shades from 

 costa, out\vardly bordered with diffuse pale vinaceous drab, the ante- 

 medial to middle of inner margin, the medial to termen below vein 2, 

 the outer from postmedial to subterminal at vein 3; an indistinct 

 subbasal grayish line; some grayish scaling on outer edge of anteme- 

 dial oblique shade; a small gray spot at subcostal before end of cell; 

 two grayish glaucous spots at discocellular, the upper somewhat 

 oblique, the lower curved and projecting on median vein, a cinnamon 

 brown line from costa, outcurved to lower angle of cell, then slightly 

 incurved to vein 1 ; a postmedial fine outcurved line with black and 

 white points on veins, followed by a short oblique white spot across 

 vein 5, above it from costa a faint whitish dentate line; subterminal 

 small black lunules above and below veins, between 7 and 8 a white 

 bilunular fine followed by some grayish glaucous scales; terminal 

 light buff points at veins. Hind wing benzo brown, the cilia on inner 

 margin and termen whitish buff. 



Expanse 70 mm. 



Eahitat. — Amatura, Amazons. 



Type.— C&t. No. 33409, U.S.N.M. 



Allied to H. nodicornis Guenee. 



I take great pleasure in naming this fine species from the Dognin 

 collection in honor of Senator Coleman du Pont, a very generous 

 contributor to the Dognin fund. 



