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blue, the anal hairs very long and black. Wings hj aline, veins and margins finely 

 black ; the apex of primaries broadly black. Expanse, 22 mm. 



Habitat : San Domingo, W. I. 

 Napata unifascia, sp. nov. 



Palpi and head black speckled with metallic blue. Thorax black mottled with 

 metallic blue. Abdomen above dark metallic blue, below with a white ventral stripe. 

 Legs black streaked with white. Primaries black, the basal half of inner margin me- 

 tallic blue ; a broad median crimson fascia from the subcostal vein and narrowiDg 

 towards inner angle. Secondaries dark metallic blue with the extreme margin and 

 fringe black. Underm ath the same, but on the primaries there is a cluster of metal- 

 lic blue scales beyond the crimson fascia, and the secondaries have the outer margin 

 and apex more broadly black. Expanse, 27 mm. 



Habitat : Chimbo, Ecuador. 

 Trichodesma obliqua, sp. nov. 



Head brown, frons cream color. Thorax and collar brown finely edged with 

 yellowish. Abdomen brown circled with fine yellow lines. Primaries brown ; a 

 broad yellow oblique band from the costa, not reaching the inner angle. Secondaries 

 yellow, with the margins broadly black. Underneath the same. Expanse, 30 mm. 



Habitat : Rio Janeiro. 



SaTURNIDjE. 



Automeris naranja, sp. nov. 



Primaries olive gray to brown, sometimes shaded with paler in the disk ; the 

 antemedial line wavy, indistinct ; the postmedial line somewhat curved inwardly froni- 

 apex, to beyond center of inner margin ; this line outwardly dark, inwardly pale. 

 Discal spot large, darker and diffuse, outlined by five black points. Secondaries with 

 the costal and inner margin brownish, with a darker subterminal shade inwardly lim- 

 ited by a black line which also separates it from a deep orange postmedial space which 

 contains the ocellus, the latter being brown with a gray centre and broadly circled 

 with black. Below wings grayish with a dark straight postmedial line and a black 

 discal spot on primaries. Thorax colored like primaries, abdomen blackish above, 

 grayish below. Expanse, $ , 64 mm.; $>, 77 mm. 



Habitat: Rio Grande do Sul. 

 Automeris zaruma, sp. nov. 



Head and thorax dark velvety brown ; abdomen reddish. Primaries yellowish 

 brown, with basal space and postmedial shadings darker, an oblique and irregular 

 bright yellow, antemedial line ; the postmedial black, inwardly shaded with yellow, 

 from apex to inner margin at two thirds from base. Secondaries with coslal and inner 

 margins reddish ; outer margin brownish ; a black subterminal band adjoining the 

 larger median space of bright yellow ; this yellow space crossed by a black postmedial 

 line ; ocellus brown, broadly circled with black and containing a cluster of gray scales 

 crossed by a while line. Underneath the wings are reddish ; a large black discal 



