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5518. Parangitia nephelistis, n. sp. (Plate CLIX. fig. 1.) 



$ . Head and thorax grey tinged with rufous and mixed with 

 some fuscous ; ahdomen grey obscurely banded with fuscous 

 dorsally. Fore wing grey tinged with rufous and thickly irrorated 

 and suffused with fuscous black; antemedial line rather diffused, 

 black, oblique and slightly sinuous ; orbicular hardly traceable, 

 small, round, denned by whitish ; reniform with whitish annulus, 

 constricted at middle and somewhat angled inwards on median 

 nervure ; medial line indistinct, oblique from costa to lower angle 

 of cell, then sinuous ; postmedial line black, double towards costa, 

 oblique to vein G, angled inwards at discal fold and incurved below 

 vein 4 ; traces of a pale sinuous subterminal line defined on each 

 side by slight dark marks on costal half; some dark points on 

 termcn and a slight whitish patch above tornus. Hind wing 

 cupreous red-brown ; the underside whitish, the terminal area 

 suffused with brown, a dark discoidal lunule and curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hob. Brazil, Amazons, Para (Schuh), 1 $ type. Exp. 26 

 millim. 



Sect. II. Hind tibiae of male with tuft of long bair on inner side between 

 medial and terminal spurs. 



*5519. Parangitia carrioni. 



Cailopistria carrioni, Dogn. Le Nat. (2) iv. p. 155 (1890). 



<5 . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous, the extremity 

 of patagia dark brown, the metathorax whitish ; palpi red-brown ; 

 tarsi banded with blackish ; abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous. 

 Fore wing rufous, the basal area suffused with black, the medial 

 a ica to below the cell and the terminal area suffused with red- 

 brown ; antemedial line rather diffused, black, expanding into a 



Fig. 101. — Parangitia carrioni, rf , \. 



spot at costa, incurved from cell to above inner margin ; traces of 

 a medial line excurved in submedian interspace; reniform faintly 

 defined by brown, small ; traces of a postmedial line excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved : a triangular blackish patch on postmedial 

 pari of costal area with yellow point on costa; subterminal lino 

 whitish, inwardly oblique to above vein 7, angled outwards to near 1 



