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antennas dai-k brown, the basal joint white ; tegulse brown mixed 

 with white ; patagia tawny in front, ochreous white behind ; 

 thorax ochreous white, two small dark subdorsal spots ; abdomen 

 ochreous white irrorated with black. Fore wings ochreous white 

 s-parsely irrorated with black ; costa tawny ; medial shade indi- 

 cated by tawny mark below costa ; a minute black discocellular 

 spot ; postmedial line black, evenly incurved from beyond middle 

 of inner margin to near termen above vein 6, where it is bent 

 violently inwards and incurved to costa, the portion above vein 4 

 is tawny; a large cluster of black irroration beyond the post- 

 medial on vein 3 ; terminal area darker than the rest of the wing 

 and somewhat suffused with fawn-colour. Hind wings ochreous 

 white sparsely irrorated with black ; a minute black discocellular 

 spot ; postmedial similar to that of fore wing and continuous with 

 it, vanishing at vein 7 ; outer half of wing more heavily suffused 

 with fawn-colour ; indications of a wavy tawny subterminal line. 

 Underside more heavily irrorated than upper ; the postmedial 

 lines diffused black and tawny ; minute discocellular spots. 



Expanse 38 mm. 



Hah. Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



In a secoad specimen the whole of the outer area of the fore 

 wings beyond a line drawn from tornus to costa a little beyond 

 the cell is heavily irrorated. 



ISOCHROMODES ELEGANTARIA, Sp. n (PI. II. fig. 19.) 



Female. — Frons and palpi rufous brown, 3rd joint darker ; legs 

 brown; vertex of head and tegulse light rufous brown ; patagia, 

 thorax, and abdomen light ochreous brown. Fore wings light 

 brown slightly irrorated with black ; antemedial line light rufous 

 brown, excurved from costa to just before origin of vein 2, 

 slightly incurved to vein 1, then bent inwards to inner margin; 

 a minute black discocellular spot; postmedial line dark rufous 

 brown outwardly shaded by light brown, sinuous, excurved on 

 veins 7 and 4, incurved from 4 to inner margin, dark points 

 on the veins, preceded by rufous-brown shade broad at costa and 

 nai"row on inner margin ; a wavy ochreous-white subterminal 

 line only visible above vein 5, below 5 the whole area from post- 

 medial to termen is ochreous white on which are thi-ee small 

 rufous-brown spots on veins 1 and 2 and the submedian fold, a 

 larger and more distal spot above vein 2 ; termen dark brown ; 

 cilia ochreous white with dark points at the veins. Hind wings 

 light brown, irrorations more numerous than on the fore wings ; 

 antemedial line obscure ; postmedial rufous brown followed by 

 whitish, slightly wavy, evenly excurved and preceded by a slight 

 rufous-brown suffusion reaching to cell ; a subterminal series of 

 obscure diffused rufous-brown spots ; termen and cilia as in 

 fore wings. 



Expanse 25 mm. 



Rah. Alto da Serra, Santos, 



