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A dainty little light species at once distinguished by the black con- 

 trasting dash on anal part of the hindwings. 



STENOMA SPERATUM, new species. 

 Plate 9, fig. 31. 



Labial palpi whitish on the inner side, reddish brown exteriorly. 

 Lower part of face silvery white; upper part and the base of the 

 antennas rich reddish brown. Head dark gray. Thorax brown. 

 Forewings dull brown with a large central oval spot on the disk light 

 leaf -green, slightly edged with yellow and with a dark-brown margin; 

 a smaller round green spot lies on the dorsal edge just below the end 

 of the large discal spot. Cilia dark brown. Hindwings light ocher- 

 ous brown. Abdomen and legs ocherous brown. 



Alar expanse. — 20 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayenne, French Guiana. Wm. Schaus, collector. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13579, U.S.N.M. 



STENOMA SALOME, new species. 

 Plate 9, fig. 39. 



Labial palpi and face light ocherous. Head and thorax light drab. 

 Forewings light-drab colored, with reddish-brown ornamentation;' 

 near base is a thin, outwardly bent, brown zigzag line across the 

 wing, followed by a small metallic blue dot on the fold and a small 

 dark-brown dot on the cell. Across the middle of the wing runs a 

 brown line, obliquely from before the middle of cost a to beyond the 

 middle of dorsum; this is followed by a light ocherous spot, edged 

 with brown at the end of the cell; on apical third of costa is a small 

 brown, triangular spot, continued faintly in a very thin, notched, 

 outwardly bent brown line across the wing; apical half of costa, 

 entire terminal edge, and apical half of dorsum reddish brown with a 

 marginal series of darker brown dots within; cilia whitish. Hind- 

 wings light ocherous fuscous with whitish cilia. Abdomen and legs 

 ocherous fuscous. 



Alar expanse. — 22-23 mm. 



Habitat. — Castro, Parana, Brazil. Schaus collection. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13580, U.S.N.M. 



STENOMA INSCITUM, new species. 

 Plate 9, fig. 33. 



Labial palpi whitish ocherous, shaded with dark brown exteriorly. 

 Face and head ocherous white. Thorax fuscous. Patagia white with 

 purplish-brown base. Collar purplish brown. Forewings whitish 

 fuscous, the ground color being white but strongly and unevenly over- 

 laid with dark fuscous except for a large oblong pure white costal 

 spot reaching from basal fourth to apical fourth. At the end of the 

 cell is a dimly indicated darker fuscous spot from which a faint dark 



