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origin ; a subterminal line of spots ; cilia concolorous excepting 

 at apex where they are fuscous brown. Underside brighter 

 than upper, sparsely irrorated with dark brown ; a heavy suffusion 

 of ferruginous brown at apex and torn us ; a large triangular ochre- 

 ous spot on apical suffusion from below vein 5 to above 6, suffused 

 with ferruginous on the veins ; a well-defined antemedial line on 

 fore wings, angled outwards on median nervure ; a diffused wavy 

 postmedial line on fore wings continued medially across hind 

 wings. 



Expanse 18 mm. 



Hab. Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



Ophthalmophora columbaria, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 23.) 



Female. — Palpi: 1st joint white, 2nd and 3rd buff; pectus 

 and femora white ; tibiae and tarsi ochreous ; frons bright buff; 

 vertex of head and tegulse white; antennae ochreous; patagia 

 pale ochreous brown, white on the shoulders ; thorax pale ochreous 

 brown ; abdomen : first segment ochreous brown at base, then 

 white and posteriorly ochreous ; the rest of abdomen ochreous. 

 Fore wings white, heavily suffused Avith reddish brown ; costal 

 area pale ochreous yellow with white below ; outer half of inner 

 margin white ; cilia pale primrose-yellow. Hind wings white ; a 

 very broad band at base the same colour as the fore wings ; a white 

 band separating this from the rest of the wing, which is suffused 

 with yellow and thickly irrorated with red-brown ; a postmedial 

 line of iridescent gold scales from beyond the cell to tornus, 

 nearly meeting on costa a subterminal line of similar scales; 

 terminal area orange ; some scattered metallic scales on inner 

 margin near base ; a black spot ringed with white and centred 

 with iridescent metallic scales between veins 6 and 7 ; cilia pale 

 primrose-yellow. 



Expanse 24 mm. 



Hab. Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



Callurapteryx paularia, sp. n. (PI. II. fig. 15.) 

 Male. — Palpi fawn-colour with white at the ends of the joints ; 

 pectus white ; legs ochreous ; frons fawn ; vertex of head white ; 

 antenna? light brown ; tegulse, patagia, and thorax white ; abdo- 

 men fawn. " Fore wings white ; costa light brown ; the lines light 

 brown, straight, expanding on costa, basal narrow, ante- and post- 

 medial geminate, enclosing lighter shade, subterminal narrow, 

 terminal broad; a brown streak on discocellulars ; cilia a lighter 

 shade. Hind wings white ; a broad postmedial line, geminate, 

 enclosing lighter shade, angled outwards on vein 6 and above 

 vein 7 ; a narrow subterminal line from before tornus to discal 

 fold ; a terminal line from tornus dilating to vein 4, where it 

 suddenly becomes narrow and is bent upwards and changes to pale 

 tawny ; apex pale tawny, an irregular metallic silvery-white ring 

 on the tawny from discal fold to near costa, within this ring there 

 is a black spot surrounded by white and with a few metallic scales 



