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PAPIAS SOBRINUS, new species. 
Diagnosis. — Wings, dark brown; base of fringe blackish, outwardly 
gray. Underneath, dark brown. Primaries, a faint outer row of small 
grayish spots curved beyond cell ; the inner margin paler. Secondaries^ 
an outer row of small dark-ochreous spots; fringe as above. 
Expanse. — Twenty -seven millimeters. ^ 
Hahitat. — Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 
Type.—^o. 6034, U.S.N.M. 
LERODEA TESERA, new species. 
Diagnosis. — Male. — Wings brown; fringe, brown, mottled with gray. 
Primaries, the base of costa grayish: small hyaline white spots; two 
superposed in cells; one between veins 2 and 3; one between 3 and 4; 
three from costa to vein 6. Underneath, primaries with apex irro- 
rated with lilacine; inner margin, broadly grayish; fringe paler. Sec- 
ondaries, thickly irrorated with lilacine; a brownish median spot on 
costa; one below cell at base; a brownish broad outer shade cut by the 
veins; some indistinct marginal spots. 
ExjMuse. — Twenty-eight millimeters. 
Habitat. — Rio Janerio, Brazil. 
Type.—^o. 6035, U.S.N.M. 
VEHILIUS ALMONEUS, new species. 
Diagnosis. — Palpi gray below. Body brown. Abdomen under- 
neath buff. Wings brown; fringe blackish at base, outwardly pale 
buff. Primaries, markings bright yellow; a median spot in cell just 
below subcostal; a curved outer row of spots from costa to submedian. 
Secondaries, an outer row of elongated j^ellow spots above vein 2. 
Underneath brown, the veins pale yellow. Primaries, the spots as 
above, except there is no spot below vein 2. Secondaries, the spots 
more numerous, starting below vein 2, pale yellow. 
Expanse. — Twenty-four millimeters. 
Allied to Y. venosus Plotz. 
Hahitat. — Peru. 
Type.—^o. 6036, U.S.N.M. 
VEHILIUS CARASTA, new species. 
Diagnosis. — Male. — Wings, dark brown. Primaries, a curved outer 
row of minute clusters of yellow scales from costa to vein 2. Under- 
neath brown, tinged with violaceous. Primaries, some yellow scales 
at base of costa; two small yellow spots in cell; the outer row of spots 
more distinct; a marginal yellow line, outwardly lunular and con- 
nected inwardly with intervening yellow streaks. Secondaries, the 
