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outer margin; a row of small yellow cu.sp.s before margin. Seconda- 

 ries with the subterminal area strongly empurpled, limited within by 

 a straight lilaceous geminate line, which is produced inward in little 

 rays on the veins; a bronzy blotch in the purple area near middle; a 

 subterminal row of yellow cusps as on primaries; the margin crenulate 

 and produced in the middle. Below brown, a common mesial dark 

 lino and outer waved crenulate yellowish one on fore wings excurved 

 over cell: margins irregularly washed in whitish, the subterminal 

 cusps repeated, but less definitely; on primaries orbicular whitish, 

 reniform, of four dark dots and a pale one in a bluish area; on second- 

 aries discal dot dark. Hind legs with the tibige very broadly haired, 

 a white spot at the knees. 



E,rj><tn.st. — 42 mm. 



JfahUat. — Aroa, Venezuela. 



Ti/pt.—CKt. No. 9558, U.S.N.M. 



Genus PETEROMA, new genus. 



Eyes large, naked; palpi upturned to vertex, third joint small; tibife 

 enlarged, the spurs normal. Wings broad and similarly colored as in 

 Iloinoptera; hind wing with vein 5 distinct, from near lower angle of 

 cell. 



PETEROMA LIGNEA, new species. 



Pale pinkish gray, a transverse black line on edge of collar and faint 

 one in middle of thorax; abdomen with a white band at extreme base, 

 first segment dark brown, second with a black posterior band, the others 

 faintly banded. Primaries with outer half dark brown; a small black 

 bar at base; transverse anterior line slender, angled on costa and 

 median, followed by a heavy oblique black band from median to inner 

 margin near base; orbicular a round dot; the pale basal space runs 

 costally nearly to apex, but the rest of the wing is dark, contain- 

 ing geminate median and transverse posterior lines, close together, 

 wavy, becoming verj- faint where they cross the pale costal space; 

 submarginal line wavy, pale, dark edged within; a crenulate black 

 marginal line; fringe pale at base, brown outwardly. Secondaries 

 lightly shaded with brown, median band double, straight, broad, fol- 

 lowed by a fainter, more wavy band; outer band triplicate, two nar- 

 row crenulate lines and a broad dark brown one; a submarginal shaded 

 band; termen and fringe as on fore wings. Below the wings are pale, 

 brown peppered; a dark sulmiarginal shade on both; discal dots and 

 common inner, median, and outer lines, narrow, crenulate, broken. 



E.ipanse. — 42 mm. 



Hahitat. — Aroa, Venezuela. 



Typt.^C2.i. No. 1».^59, U.S.N.M. 

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