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ringed; transverse posterior line with a faint pale branch from costa, 

 touching a blackish apical shade dash, forming- a straight, geminate, 

 light-red-tilled band from apex across both wings to above anal angle 

 of secondaries; space beyond darker brown, fainth' cloudy inorated; 

 a submarginal row of points on both wings, white, black within; 

 a l)lackish discal dot on hind wings. Below testaceous, blackish irro- 

 rate; orbicular punctiform. reniform lunate, dusky; transverse posterior 

 line normall}' shaped; outer dots as above. Hind wing with double 

 discal dot, outer line and outer dots. 



Exjyanse. — 42 mm. 



Habitat. — Sao Paulo, Brazil. 



%^^.— Cat. No. 9565, U.S.N.M. 



ORTHOGRAMMA HERMESIA, new species. 



Red brown, antennal serrations, a line between antenme and extreme 

 tips of palpi white. Primaries with a narrow straight brown outer 

 line from apex to middle of inner mai'gin follow by minute yellowish 

 specks on the veins; transverse anterior line obscure, of two large 

 arcs; reniform and orbicular large, of the groundcolor, faintly defined 

 by a darkening of the shade along costa; submarginal line blackish, 

 twice broadly waved, narrow, ditiused, broken into spots. Second- 

 aries with a straight mesial line continuing the one on fore wings; a row 

 of nearly obsolete black dotssubmarginally. Below lighter over base 

 and disk of secondaries; a common mesial brown line and discal dots. 



Expanse. — 42 mm. 



Ilahitat. — Sao Paulo, Brazil. 



Type.—G^i. No. 95T6, U.S.N.M. 



Genus COENIPETA Hubner. 

 COENIPETA GLAUCOIDES, new species. 



Fore wings very dark purplish brown, mottled all over with little 

 patches of submetallic greenish blue scales, strongest in a powdering 

 about the obsolete reniform mark; lines pale, not well indicated, con- 

 fused by the patches; anterior wavy, nearly straight; median similar, 

 faint centrally; posterior slender, zigzag wavy, retreating below cell 

 under the reniform, not excurved sul)terminal very faint; a row of 

 slightly darker large blotches just before the margin. Secondaries 

 shining bronzy dark brown, scarcely any trace of lines except just at 

 the margin where are intravenular black spots, except at costa and anal 

 angle, each preceded by a dull yellowish dash and XQvy faintly en- 

 circled. Below lighter brown, nearly immaculate; the light yellowish 

 inceptions of the transverse lines on costa ar(^ repeated, the secondaries 

 have a darker straight median line and a light mottling on the margin. 



