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Female. — The basal spots as in male ; the antemedial dark 

 band confluent with the medial steel-blue space above inner 

 margin ; the dark shades on medial area suffused with olivaceous 

 brown. Hind wings fuscous brown, lighter at the base. 



Expanse : male 24 mm., female 22 mm. 



Hab. Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



ACANTHODICA FRIGIDA, Sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 14.) 



Female. — Palpi red-brown, with a fine dark longitudinal streak 

 on outer side ; legs red-brown ; irons anteriorly* red-brown, 

 frontal tufts brown mixed with greenish grey ; back of head 

 dark red-brown ; antennae brown ; tegulse light and dark brown 

 mixed, a few scattered white scales ; thorax and abdomen red- 

 brown ; shoulders and patagia white, a few greenish-grey scales 

 on thorax and inner fringe of patagia. Fore wings light red- 

 brown ; base white ; a small annulate black basal spot ; indica- 

 tions on costa of double subbasal, antemedial, and medial lines ; 

 a diffused postmedial line, oblique on costa, bent outwards along 

 vein 11, then strongly excurved and marked by double row of 

 minute dark points on the veins from 7 to 2 ; a diffused dark 

 subterminal shade ; a dark brown fascia on cliscal fold beyond 

 postmedial ; a large irregular white space extends from the base 

 to the postmedial line, extending above subcostal nervure from 

 subbasal to antemedial line, basal half of cell, submedian area to 

 below vein 1, interrupted by brown triangle at one-third from 

 base, continued to postmedial as far as vein 7 ; distal half of cell 

 brown, containing a small white spot ; a large fuscous spot below 

 cell at origin of vein 2 ; a large semicircular ochreous apical spot 

 defined by fuscous on proximal side ; inner margin brown strigu- 

 lated with dark fuscous ; two minute white spots above tornus 

 followed by black points. Hind wings suffused with reddish 

 fuscous ; an elongated white spot with black bar across it at 

 tornus. 



Expanse 40 mm. 



Hab. SSo Paulo, S.E. Brazil. 



Phurys fasciata, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 16.) 



Male. — Palpi, legs, and antennas light brown ; head and thorax 

 brown mixed with lilacine grey ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wings 

 lilacine grey irrorated with brown ; costa brown ; a broad, dark 

 fuscous streak on submedian interspace from near base to near 

 subterminal dark band ; a subterminal dark band from before 

 tornus to apex, evenly incurved on proximal and wavy on distal 

 edge, followed by light brown ; a lance-shaped dark streak, with 

 base at origin of vein 3 and point near the dark band at vein 6 ; 

 a terminal brown shade. Hind wings ochreous white with 

 diffused dark subterminal band. 



Expanse 28 mm. 



Hab. Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



