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rufous, a dark discoidal point and indistinct sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



Hab. Brazil, Rio Janeiro (E. Wilson), 1 d" , Castro Parana. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



4418. Macapta psectrocera, n. sp. (Plato CXXXIX. fig. 20.) 



S . Head and tegulae yellow mixed with fiery red ; palpi brown, 

 whitish at tips ; shaft of antennas white ringed with brown ; thorax 

 red-brown with the vertex whitish ; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing greyish almost wholly 

 suffused with deep cupreous brown, the postmedial area rather 

 paler ; traces of a waved brown subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; 

 antemedial line indistinctly double, filled in with greyish, waved 

 and somewhat oblique ; orbicular with faint whitish annulus, 

 somewhat elongate elliptical ; reniform faint, greyish, slightly denned 

 by brown on inner side ; a rather diffused incurved red-brown line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line red-brown 

 slightly defined on each side by whitish, bent outwards below 

 costa, then very minutely waved and with white and dark points 

 beyond it on the veins, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 pale, defined on inner side by cupreous brown, slightly angled 

 outwards at veins 7, 6 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series 

 of minute black lunules defined on inner side by whitish points. 

 Hind wing white tinged with red-brown especially on terminal 

 area ; a fine brown terminal line ; the underside whitish, the costal 

 and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal point 

 and traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Hab. Colombia (H. II. Smith), 1 S type, Bonda. Exp. 30 

 millim. 



B. Palpi with the 2nd joint oblique and fringed with hair above, the 3rd 

 joint porrect. 



4419. Macapta rubrescens. 



(Makajifa) rubrescens, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 166 (1904). 

 d . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale purplish pink mixed with 



Fig. 25. — Macapta rubrescens, tf. {. 



some whitish especially on ventral surface. Fore wing palo 

 purplish pink; subbasal and antemedial lines absent; orbicular 

 absent ; reniform a narrow oblique bar, brown defined by white ; 



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