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RHAPIGIA, new generic name 



It is advisable to employ a new name for those species described as 

 Hapigia which have the inner margin of fore wing deeply excised and 

 the tornus lobed. It will include H. accipites Schaus as type, 

 H. aymara Schaus, Hapigiodes rotundata Dognin, H. Tdagesi Rothschild, 

 and the following new species. 



RHAPIGIA DEICOLA, new species 



Male. — Head, collar, and thorax cinnamon brown, the tegulae 

 apricot buff. Abdomen above benzo brown, underneath buff white, 

 suffused with buff pink. Fore wing to terminal area amber brown; 

 broad subbasal and antemedial outbent lines formed on conjoined 

 pinkish cinnamon spots, the antemedial extending to lobe at tornus, 

 the spots partly divided by small dark lunules; an oval similar spot 

 on discocellular and a smaller spot before it at subcostal; postmedial 

 area lunular wavy on outer edge and crossed by a fine dark out 

 curved line inwardly edged with gray, with points on veins, slightly 

 outbent below vein 2; terminal space pinkish buff suffused with 

 amber brown from apex to vein 3 terminally, crossed by a deeply 

 lunular fine black line, edged with white toward apex. Hind wing 

 dark drab, the costa whitish at base; cilia tipped with white. 



Expanse 45 mm. 



Habitat. — Hyutanahan, Rio Purus, Brazil. 



Type. — In Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



Paratype.—C&t. No. 33416, U.S.N.M. 



RHAPIGIA DEICOLA AGNESA. new form 



Male. — Similar to deicola Schaus but with a black spot on inner 

 margin at excision, and a black spot across vein 4 on the outer edge 

 of the postmedial area. 



Expanse 45 mm. 



Habitat. — Hyutanahan, Rio Purus, Brazil. 



Type. — Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



Paratype.—C&t. No. 33417, U.S.N.M. 



HAPIGIODES ARGENTIDISCATA, new species 



Male. — Palpi and head fawn color. Collar and thorax vinaceous 

 buff, the former with army brown shading laterally. Abdomen 

 above benzo brown, the anal hairs and under side light huffish. 

 Fore wing: Lower half, obliquely from costa to near tornus wood 

 brown, otherwise vinaceous buff; a vertical basal line inwardly edged 

 with pale vinaceous fawn; antemedial black points on costa and 

 veins, below median connected by a faint lunular line, the lunule on 

 inner margin deeply outcurved to beyond sinus, preceded by a small 

 black spot on median and vein 1; discal spot large golden silvery, 



