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with pale olive-green at ba.se ; a dark olive-green discocellular 

 spot ; apex dark olive-green, cut by a fine luteous line from 

 above vein 5 to before apex ; a crenulate dark green postmedial 

 line, broad at costa ; hind wings : a dark green discocellular 

 spot ; a crenulate diffused dark green postmedial line and similar 

 subterminal ; a brown terminal suffusion. 



Expanse 32 mm. 



Hah. Alto da Serra, Santos. 



Rhodomena paularia, sp. n. (PI. II. fig. 7.) 



Female.— Palpi ochreous white, the first joint outwardly black ; 

 legs buff heavily suffused with black, the tarsi black ringed with 

 buff; frons lustrous whitish fawn, a large central purple-brown 

 spot ; vertex of head pale buff- white with brown central spot ; 

 antenna? slightly metallic purple-brown, the basal joint ochreous; 

 tegulre pale buff- white with a dark brown line ; patagia ochreous 

 white, fuscous brown on the shoulder ; a large black and brown 

 metathoracic tuft with metallic reflection ; abdomen dark ochreous, 

 ringed with tawny and clorsally suffused with black. Fore wings 

 ochreous white heavily suffused with tawny and fuscous brown ; 

 a black basal line from costa to vein 1 ; a dark diffused ante- 

 medial line, narrow on inner margin and broad at costa ; a dark 

 diffused medial shade, narrow below cell, broad in and above cell, 

 enclosing black discocellular spot and preceded by a narrow 

 whitish shade ; a second dark shade before postmedial ; post- 

 medial line narrow, denticulate, excurved from vein 2 to 6, 

 thence straight to costa, slightly bent outwards to vein 2, followed 

 by rather broad ochreous white ; terminal area heavily suffused 

 with fuscous and brown, the apex very dark ; an obscure wavy 

 subterminal line indicated by lilacine scales. Hind wings 

 ochreous suffused with luteous brown ; obscure diffused post- 

 medial and subterminal lines : termen brown. 



Expanse 27 mm. 



Hah. Alto da Serra, Santos. 



HYPOLEPIS BELLA, Sp. 11. (PI. II. fig. 25.) 



Male.— Palpi, pectus, and legs tawny, the latter heavily streaked 

 and suffused with dark reddish brown ; frons brown tawny ; 

 vertex of head golden tawny ; antenna? tawny, the shaft streaked 

 and suffused with brown ; teguk-e tawny mixed with golden 

 yellow ; patagia outwardly golden brown, inwardly golden yellow; 

 abdomen golden yellow heavily suffused with purplish brown 

 except at base, a dorsal and two sublateral dark spots on first 

 segment, dorsal only on second and third. Fore wings rich 

 golden brown ; costa and subcostal vein barred with golden- 

 yellow strigula?, costa almost black on basal half ; a silvery-white 

 wavy antemedial line angled outwards on subcostal vein and 

 inwards on vein 1 ; a silvery-white medial band passing through 

 cell, angled outwards on vein 2, the middle of the band occupied 

 by a narrow band of yellow irrorated with brown, the white 



