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red line; outer line from three-fourths of costa, curved parallel to 

 hind margin, to two-thirds of inner margin, inwardly edged with 

 brick-red; cell spot oval, black, with a slight gra}^ center; marginal 

 line thick, interrupted by pale dots at the veins; fringe concolorous. 



Uindwlng. — Like forewing, but the whole basal two-thirds brick- 

 red; outer line curved; cell spot smaller. 



Under side deep dull rosy, paler in hindwing; outer lines indicated; 

 cell spots blackish; inner margin of forewing whitish. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dull red-brown, under side and legs 

 ochreous. 



Ej-pan,se of wings. — 24 mm. 



Locality. — Cayenne, French Guiana; 1 male, June, 1904. 



Type.—C^it. No. 9230, U.S.N.M. 



Genus DYSEPHYRA Warren. 

 DYSEPHYRA ALBIDISCATA, new species. 



Forewing. — Brownish testaceous, powdered with line dark atoms; 

 the lines gray, thick and diffuse; tirst at one-third, waved and vertical 

 below cell; outer and submarginal dentate-lunulate, parallel to each 

 other, incurved below middle and insiimate bej^ond cell and on sub- 

 median fold; cell spot white, in a l)rown ring; fringe concolorous. 



JI/)uhriiig. — Without inner line; the cell spot rather longer. 



Under side paler, rufous yellow, more yellow toward base; the lines 

 and cell spots faint. 



Thorax and abdomen like wings; face and vertex reddish brown; 

 palpi beneath whitish. 



E.i'panm of -wings. — 40 mm. 



Locidity. — Ca} enne, French (niiana; 3 males, December, 1903, Feb- 

 ruary, 1904. 



Tyjh.— Cat No. 9231, U.S.N.M. 



DYSEPHYRA ALBIDISCATA variety NIGRIDISCATA, new. 



The aberration nigridiscata has the cell marks tilled up with gray 

 and the brown ring thicker; the coloration slightly darker and 

 browner. 



Lociditits. — CaA^enne, French Guiana, 1 male, January, 1904; St. 

 Jean, Maroni River, French Guiana, 2 males, July, 1904; in these two 

 examples the cell marks are larger. 



Type.— Cat. No. 9830, U.S.N.M. 



Genus EMMILTIS Hubner. 

 EMMILTIS BLANDULA, new species. 



Forewing. — Chalk- white, with a few coarse black scales near base, 

 only; inner, outer, and marginal lines marked by l>lack spots, the two 

 former on the veins, the latter between them; median and submarginal 



