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ckrk line punctuated on the veins ; a dark suftusion at the apex ; 

 some stvigulpe on inner half of wing from vein 1 to inner margin ; 

 termen dark ; cilia light at base, dark at tips. Hind wint^s 

 striated over the whole ; a broad medial band' similar to post- 

 medial of fore wings ; a minute discocellular spot. 



Expanse 30 mm. 



Sah. Alto da Serra, Santos. 



Apicia qeminimacula, sp. n. (PI. II. fig. 17,) 



Male. — Palpi and frons brown ; pectus and legs light brown ; 

 head, antennae, and thorax light brown, two black spots on meta- 

 thorax ; abdomen light brown, two black distal subdorsal spots 

 on basal segment, the spots confluent on the following segments. 

 Wings light brown irrorated with darker brown and black. 

 Fore wings : antemedial line tawny brown from inner margin to 

 median nervure with dark spot on vein 1 and median, above 

 median invisible except black dot on subcostal nervure ; a minute 

 black discocellular spot; postmedial line tawny brown, slio-htly 

 wavy, dark points on the veins ; two large subterminal spots on 

 veins 2 and 3 : termen and cilia concolorous, a dark spot at ends 

 of the veins. Hind wings : a broad diffused tawny medial shade ; 

 a black discocellular spot ; a fine dark postmedial line, diffused 

 on veins, preceded by diffused tawny shade, folloAved by light 

 shade ; a subterminal row of small spots on veins 1-3 ; termen 

 angled on vein 4 ; cilia with black spots at ends of veins. 



Expanse 25 mm. 



Hah. Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



Oratoptera penestraria, sp. n. (PI. II. fig. 16.) 



Male. — Palpi rufous brown ; pectus light brown; legs ochreous 

 speckled with black, tarsi ringed with black ; frons and head 

 light brown, white between the antennse ; antennje light brown ; 

 tegulae, patagia, thorax, and abdomen light brown, the latter 

 with a few scattered black scales. Fore wings light ochreous 

 brown, suffused with purplish brown and striated with purplish 

 brown and black strigulae ; antemedial line strongly angled out- 

 wards in cell, preceded by white points on costa, on median 

 nervure, and vein 1 ; a medial dark shade strongly ano-led 

 outwards below costa and merging into a straight dark band 

 from middle of inner margin to apex followed by naiTow tawny 

 and broader whitish shade : a black spot followed by white on 

 costa near apex ; a large ochreous semihyaline spot beyond the 

 band from below vein 2 to above 3 with some strigulje and 

 the veins dark ; beyond the spot is a dark diffusion, leaving a 

 light space below apex ; a black discocellular spot with a short 

 black fascia above it ; cilia dark brown. Hind wings ochreous 

 brown with brown and black strigulte and suffused with tawny 

 brown on lower part of outer half of wing ; an antemedial band 

 of brown, tawny and whitish in continuation of band on fore 

 PROC. ZooL. See— 1921, No. XXIIl. 23 



