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sliglitly outcurved and wavy from cosfa to vein 4, and out- 

 wardly shaded with dull dark brown ; an irregidar and 

 indistinct dark subterminal sliade with lighter grey points 

 between the veins; a terminal black line ; cilia black, tipped 

 with white near apex and from vein 3 to tornus, and shaded 

 with ochreous brown basally above tornu?. Hind wings 

 dark steel-grey ; a black medial line followed by a broad 

 light brown space, not reaching inner margin and containing 

 a black point on discoceUular behind; a straight postmedial 

 line, paler steel-grey edged on either side with dark brown ; 

 a terminal black line; base of cilia ochreous brown, followed 

 by fuscous and tipped with whitish. Wings below whitish, 

 crossed by numerous black striaj, and wavy medial and pDst- 

 medial black lines, the disc of fore wings strongly shaded 

 with brown ; a black shade connecting the lines below cell, 

 and the terminal area below apex shaded with black; bind 

 wings with the outer margin broadly black, on which are 

 some subterminal pale spots. 



Expanse 33 mm. 



Ilah. La Floridii. 



Thermesia ?suhdentata, sp. n. 



Palpi orange, shaded with fuscous brown laterally; frons 

 reddish irrorated with lilacine ; vertex and collar velvety 

 brown-black ; thorax greyish brown irrorated with lilacine ; 

 abdomen dark grey. Fore wings yellowish buff striated 

 with dark grey ; a dark shade at base irrorated with lilacine, 

 expanding below cell and there limited by an inwardly 

 oblique fuscous line, which is outbent below submedian ; an 

 antemedial dark brown line on costa ; a medial irregular 

 transverse olive-brown shade preceded by some reddish 

 irrorations in and below cell ; reniform much constricted 

 anteriorlv, its edge preceded by a velvety brown-black line; 

 postmedial dark olive-brown, outbent from costa, followed 

 by a lilacine line from vrin 8, and another brownish line 

 from vein G, from which point it is inwanlly oblique and 

 slightly sinuous; a broad lilacine shade follows from vein 4 

 to inner margin ; the terminal area more heavily striated, 

 and an irregular low of black subterminal spots ; base of 

 cilia reddish brown. Hind wings grey-brown tinged with 

 olive ; a postmedial black line, expanding on inner margin 

 and there geminate ; cilia dark brown, with a reddish line at 

 base, and tijiped with lilacine scales. Fore wings below 

 dull greyish brown, the costa shaded with ochreous ; a white 

 point on discoceUular closely followed by a dentate fuscous 



