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forms a whitish mark irrorated with black, then oblique and 
sinuous to tornus, some short black streaks beyond it towards apex ; 
a series of prominent black points just before termen forming two 
strite abovetornus. Hind wing white, the veins and marginal areas 
slightly tinged with brown; the underside with brown patch on 
costa before apex. 
Hab. Braztt, Rio Janeiro (EF. Wilson), 1 Q type. Emp. 44 
millim. 
6644. Pucialia rectilinea. (Plate CLXXXIII. fig. 7.) 
Pucialia rectilinea, Dogn. Mém, Soc. Ent. Belg. xviii. p. 153 (1910). 
Head and thorax dark brown mixed with greyish; pectus and 
mid and hind legs brownish white ; abdomen greyish suffused with 
brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing grey-white almost 
entirely suffused with dark purplish brown and slightly irrorated 
with black ; an obliqne straight black antemedial line defined on 
inner side by whitish ; an oblique black striga at upper angle of 
ecll and point at lower on slight whitish marks ; postmedial line 
double, filled in with whitish and defined on inner side by whitish, the 
inner line prominent and black, slightly excurved below costa, then 
straight and erect, a dark shade beyond it defined on outer side by 
white suffusion, obliquely incurved below vein 4; a series of strong 
black striz before termen defined on inner side by white; a fine 
black terminal line. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown 
especially towards termen, the veins of terminal area streaked with 
brown. 
Hab. Fr. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni (Schaus), 1 ¢, St. Laurent 
Maroni, type TQ in Coll. Dognin. LZwp. 44 millim. 
*6645. Pucialia purissima. (Plate CLXXXVI. fig. 15.) 
Iscadia purissima, Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxviii. p. 252 (1911). 
2. Head and thorax white irrorated with a few black scales ; 
tegulze brownish ; abdomen grey, the basal crest brown and white. 
Fore wing white with strive of raised scales; the basal costal area 
blackish; a patch of yellow-green scales below median neryure 
before the antemedial line, which is black, inwardly oblique to sub- 
median fold where it is angled inwards, then double filled in with 
green and bent inwards to inner margin, a semicircular black mark 
beyond it on inner area; orbicular a black point; reniform in- 
completely defined by black, elliptical ; postmedial line black, strong 
and oblique to vein 6, below vein 4 slightly incurved, and at vein 3 
angled inwards towards lower angle of cell, then obliquely excurved, 
a series of green and yellow patches beyond it in the interspaces 
defined on outer side by a waved grey line; a strong black streak 
on vein 6 from termen to the postmedial line with a slight waved 
streak above it; subterminal line indistinct, white defined on outer 
side by brown suffusion; a fine waved black terminal line; cilia 
intersected with black at the veins. Hind wing whitish suffused 
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