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and at the apex is white with a few gra}' speckles; fringe gray, beyond 

 a fine dark marginal line. 



Ilindwing. — Without first line; the hind margin moderatel}' toothed 

 at middle. 



Under side whiter, the lines and speckling brown; fascia be3^ond 

 outer line browii, broader at costa than inner margin, extending to 

 margin between veins -4 and 6; the veins ))rown; costa of fore wing 

 yellowish with dark striations; in the hindwing the band is narrower 

 and not extended to margin. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ashy gray. 



Expanse of wings. — 26 mm. 



Locality. — Castro, Parana, Brazil; 1 male. 



Hind margin of forewing sinuous, without excisions; fovea of fore- 

 wing slight. 



Ty/^d.— Cat. No. 9897, U.S.N.M 



SEMIOTHISA PLURIMACULATA, new species. 



Forewing .—V^X^ ochreous, finely speckled with olive and black; the 

 costa marked with ])lack spots at one-fifth, two-fifths, and three-fifths; 

 the three lines pale olive, the first and second bent below subcostal, 

 then oblique, slightly waved inward; the outer l)ent outward between 

 veins 6 and 2, slightly black marked on the veins, with two large con- 

 fluent black spots on veins 8 and 4, and followed throughout ])y a pale 

 space be3'ond which the marginal area is lilac-gray tinged with rufous, 

 toward the hind margin beyond an indistinct submarginal line; on the 

 inner edge of this space on costa is a large quadrate brown l)lotch 

 reaching vein 6, bej'ond which the apex is white, and a small black 

 blotch between veins 3 and 4; marginal line ))rown, thicker and darker 

 before the excision; fringe pale gray; cell spot olive. 



Ilindwing. — Without basal line and dark blotches; the submarginal 

 line denoted by a dark line elbowed in middl(\ tiie marginal area ochre- 

 ous with brown striations. 



Under side washed with yellow, the lines brown; the outer line fol- 

 lowed in forewing by a black shade broadening to anal angle, in hind- 

 wing narrowing to the angle and ])road above; apex of forewing white, 

 with brown speckling. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous speckled witli ])rown. 



Expanse of irixgs. — 26 nun. 



Localit !/.^St. Jean, jVIaroni River, French Guiana; 1 male, April, 

 1904. 



Ti/j^e.— Cat. No. 9398, U.S.N.M. 



SEMIOTHISA PUNCTISTRIATA, new species. 



Foreioing. — Pale grayish olive, with a few ))lack atoms; the lines 

 very fine and marked by distinct })lack dots on veins; first curved dose 



