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the outer reaching costa before apex. Hind wing uniform dark brown, 

 the male stigma large, still darker brown, fringe pale at the tips. Ex- 

 panse 47 mm. 



One male, Colombia (W. E. Pratt, collector, collection of 

 W. Schaus). 



Type. — No. 11355, U. S. National Museum. 



Allied to H. violascens Guen., but the fore wings darker and 

 the hind wings dark brown instead of whitish. Also resembles 

 H. singula Guen., but the shading of the fore wing differs. 



Hemiceras pemubila, n. sp. 



Base of antennae white; head and thorax purplish brown; abdomen 

 similar above, yellowish below, with a little ventral purplish shading. 

 Fore wing shining purplish brown, the lines a shade paler than the 

 ground color, crenulate, indicated by black points on the veins, the 

 obsolete scallops filled in with bronzy ochraceous, the inner curved, 

 indented on the folds, the outer reaching costa before apex; a rounded 

 clouded blackish discal mark, somewhat trilobate; a blackish cloud i» 

 the subterminal space, scarcely defining the subterminal line. Hind 

 wing brown, slightly whitish between the veins toward base, the male 

 stigma large, dark brown, the fringe white. Expanse 38 to 45 mm. 



Six males, one female, Cordoba, Mexico (R. Miiller, No. 

 339); Jalapa, Mexico (W. Schaus); Costa Rica; Chiriqui, 

 Panama (W. Schaus) ; Merida, Venezuela (S. Briceno) ; 

 Zamora, Ecuador (P. Dognin). 



Type. — No. 11356, U. S. National Museum. 



Allied to H. nuhilata Schaus, H. .subochraceum Walk., and 

 H. lotula Guen. ; the ground color is less diversified than in 

 nuhilata and the pale color of the lines less extended, while 

 these characters are more developed than in subochraceum or 

 lotula. It may eventuate that there are too many names in 

 this group, but, as they stand, this species seems as well defined 

 as the others. 



Hemiceras soso, n. sp. 



Head white on the vertex, collar and thorax dark purplish, abdomen 

 purplish brown above, whitish below. Fore wing shining brassy 

 testaceous, irrorate with blackish, especially obliquely in the median 

 space; lines slender, black, crenulate, dotted on the veins, the inner 

 curved, angularly waved on the veins, the outer rather sharply dentate 

 between the veins, both shaded with clearer testaceous away from the 

 median space; discal mark large, oval, blackish, paler in the middle, 

 subannular; a blackish shade in the subterminal space indistinctly form- 

 ing a row of large rounded spots, the subterminal line not defined. 

 Hind wing whitish, with a little brown shading on margin and above 

 tornus, the male stigma distinct, dark brown. Expanse 40 mm. 



