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extending to discocellular spot; a dark purple-brown subterminal 

 spot above vein 3 preceded by ocbreous ; terminal area from 

 tornus to vein 6 dark lilacine grey; termen from vein 6 to apex 

 ochreous ; an ochreous line divides the grey from the purple 

 from apex to snbterminal spot above vein 3 ; cilia ochreous, 

 black points opposite ends of veins. 



Expanse 17 mm. 



Hah. Alto da Serra, Santos. 



Hyriogona montaria, sp. n. (PL III. fig. 20.) 



Male. — Palpi and head purple-brown; legs light brown, the 

 fore pair suffused with purple ; antennae, tegulse, and patagia 

 light reddish brown ; thorax posteriorly purple ; abdomen light 

 reddish brown, a few purple scales. Fore wings light reddish 

 brown with lilacine reflection irrorated and suffused with purple- 

 red ; costa slightly suffused with dark brown ; narrow diffused 

 dark medial and postmedial lines ; a dark discocellular spot ; a 

 diffused dark purple line from tornus to two-thirds on costa 

 shaded outwardly with purple-red, which expands violently 

 above vein 5 to close to apex ; terminal area luteous, angled 

 inwards on vein 5 ; a tenninal row of minute purple points on 

 the ends of the veins ; cilia luteous. Hind wings similar to the 

 fore wings, but the subterminal area is much more broadly 

 suffused with purple and the termen narrowly luteous. 



Expanse 17 mm. 



Hah. Alto da Serra, Santos. 



Metasiopsis proutaria, sp. n. (PL II. fig. 8.) 



Male. — Palpi brownish ochreous ; legs ochreous irrorated with 

 light brown; frons and head rufous brown; vertex ochreous 

 white ; antennae white ; tegulse pale -rufous brown ; thorax and 

 abdomen ochreous irrorated with brown. Wings ochreous white. 

 Fore-wings : indistinct subbasal, antemedial, and medial rufous- 

 brown bands, the latter enclosing fuscous discocellular spot; 

 postmedial line pale rufous brown, wavy, marked by fuscous spot 

 on costa ; terminal area fuscous from tornus to vein 7, the inner 

 edge excavated from 2 to 4, the dark space traversed by wavy 

 pale subterminal line : a terminal line of fuscous lunules on the 

 interspaces, a fine wavy whitish line dividing them from the dark 

 area; cilia ochreous white. Hind wings: medial, postmedial, 

 subterminal, and terminal wavy diffused fuscous brown bands, 

 all of them darker on inner margin. 



Expanse 22 mm. 



Hah. Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



Subfam. Geometuin;e. 



OOSPILA ALTONARIA, sp. n. (PL III. fig. 21.) 



Male.— Palpi inwardly white, outwardly tawny ; pectus white ; 

 leirs ochreous, fore legs suffused with tawny ; frons purple-brown, 



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