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Head and shoulders purple; apical half of shoulders olive; thorax 

 and patagia and dorsum olive-brown; anal tuft, abdomen at side and 

 beneath, and the legs yellow. 



Expanse oftrings. — 27 mm. 



Locality. — St. Laurent, Maroni River, French Guiana; 1 male. 

 December, 1904. 



Allied to P. suhlustraria Walker. Hind margin of f orewing straight 

 and oblique; of hindwing strongly rounded. 



7^7>t.— Cat. No. 944:5, U.S.N.M. 



PYRINIA INSULA, new species. 



FoTfiwlng. — Pale lilac-gray, tinged strongly wnth olive and covered 

 with purplish specks and strifij; the two lines starting from thick costal 

 blotches at one-third, and two-thirds; lirst slight, Avaved. and thick to 

 one-third of inner margin; the outer oblique outward to vein 6, then 

 becoming obsolete, ending as a narrow oblique streak from vein 2 to 

 inner margin at two thirds, the interval obscured by an olive suf- 

 fusion; submarginal line represented l)y four purplish blotches on 

 veins 1, 2, 3, -i, obsolete above; fringe dark olive with a yellow line 

 along base; the whole basal area slightlj' darker. 



Tflndtrincj. — Yellower, with purplish striations, but little dusting; 

 a straight middle line and a marginal shade, the latter swollen and pur- 

 plish at apex; fringe yellow, purplish at apex. 



Under side fulvous with red-brown striiv; the two lines of forewing- 

 marked })y thickened strife and slight l)lotches; a narrow marginal 

 shade, connected with outer line by a horizontal streak along vein 5; 

 hindwnng with the line and marginal shade as above. 



Head, thorax, and al)domen olive, speckled with reddish; tifth seg- 

 ment of dorsum with a dark ring; under side and legs yellow. 



E.rjMiHse <>fwiiigf<. — 17 mm. 



Locality. — Cayenne, French (luiana; 1 male. 



Nearest to P. hrunneata Warren from the Amazons, but smaller and 

 with finer markings. 



Jy^d.-Cat. No. 9446, U.S.N.M. 



PYRINIA PRiEFULVATA, new species. 



Forennng. — Deep chestnut-brown, showing traces of darker trans- 

 versestrifB in places; lines darker; first from one-third of costa to two- 

 tifths of inner margin, curved above and waved below middle: outer 

 line from just before apex all but straight to two-thirds of imier mar- 

 gin followed ])v a faint pale line, plainer at costa and on inner margin; 

 costal edge bright olive-ochreous with fine black points; fringe con- 

 colorous. 



U'nidwhig. — With the line central; fringe bright chestnut. 



Under side l)right orange-fulvous, with brown stria% which in hind- 

 wing are confined to the basal area; lines of the upper side marked 



