NE 1 1 ' a EoMF/rn id mo tjis— wa rren. 5 1 1 



waved and distinctly edged with shades above middle, straighter but 

 indistinct below; the lunules between 4 and filled up with and fol- 

 lowed by dark gray shading, edged above by an obliijue streak from 

 vein 7; subniarginal spots large and conspicuous; the marginal line 

 black; fringe pale gray. 



Hhidann(j. — With black dash at base, blackish antemedian line, 

 black postmedian line, forming a slight blunt angle on the fold and 

 followed by a browMi marked gra}^ l)and; subniarginal line flexuous 

 between two flexuous dark shades; the black spots at margin connected 

 with the black marginal festoon. 



Under side dull white, both wings with dark cell spots and cloudy 

 median line; forewing with costa streaked with black; a broad black 

 apical cloud to vein 4, leaving apex itself white, continued as a diffuse 

 blotch below vein 3; hindwing with a narrower subniarginal dark 

 cloud. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish speckled with dark, forming 

 rings on the dorsal segments; a blackish band at l)ase of abdomen. 



Exjycmse of wings. — 30 mm. 



Locality. — Matanzas, Cuba; 1 female, November, 1902. 



%>e.— Cat. No. 9364, U.S.N.M. 



IRIDOPSIS HUMILIS, new species. 



Foreunng. — Pale gra}^ rather glossy in certain lights, the basal and 

 marginal areas fainth^ tinged with olive; costal edge finely streaked 

 with black; lines fine, very obscure, starting from dark costal spots at 

 one-third, one-half, and two-thirds; the first running to near inner 

 margin and marked with a black spot on veins; outer marked with a 

 black spot below vein 6, roundly projecting on vein 5, then sinuous 

 inward to before middle of inner margin, black from 5 to 4, and fol- 

 lowed b}^ a faintly darker shade; the pale, slighth^ glossy subniarginal 

 line lunulate, edged with darker, the lunules beyond cell filled up with 

 blackish, followed by an oblique curved dark streak from vein 7 which 

 projects into the pale gray fringe; subniarginal spots lilack; marginal 

 line finely black; cell spot ocelloid, of the ground-color. 



.Hindvnng. — Like forewing; the cell mark with dark edges; the 

 outer line nearl}^ straight, the shade beyond it crenulate; the subniar- 

 ginal shades thicker and darker. 



Under side smoky graj^ clouded with darker; the cell spots and a 

 broad marginal border smoky blackish; apex of forewings and fringes 

 of both wings pale gray; costa of forewing with black spots; a dark 

 blotch below cell spot of forewing. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings; base of shoulders blackish, 

 their apex olive; palpi externally and a broad central bar across face 

 dark brown. 



