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NedusiA castra, sp. n. (PI. III. fig. 26.) 



Male. — Palpi and frons purplish brown ; legs light fuscous 

 brown ; vertex of head and antennae brown ; patagia light brown ; 

 thorax and abdomen purplish brown, the anal tuft golden buff. 

 Fore wings light brown suffused, striated, and irrorated with 

 fuscous brown ; a dark wavy medial line strongly excurvecl 

 through the end of the cell, slightly bent inwards from cell to 

 submedian fold, angled outwards on submedian fold and inwards 

 on vein 1, some white before it in the cell; postmedial line wavy, 

 dark ferruginous brown, slightly incurved from costa to vein 8, 

 excurvecl from 8 to 2, then bent outwards and downwards to 

 inner margin ; terminal area lighter than rest of wing, suffused 

 with darker from inner margin to vein 4 ; a curved subterminal 

 dark streak between 4 and 7 followed by ferruginous ; a dark 

 point between 7 and 8 ; cilia dark. Hind wings light brown 

 suffused with fuscous brown ; the lines dark, parallel, angled out- 

 wards above median nervure, the inner preceded and the outer 

 followed by white ; medial area dark fuscous brown ; cilia dark. 



Expanse 28 mm. 



Hah. Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



Alaplena, gen. nov. 



Proboscis short ; palpi slightly upturned, evenly scaled, third 

 joint moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of 

 male simple ; thorax clothed with scales ; patagia terminating in 

 hairs and long spatulate scales ; legs smoothly clothed with 

 scales ; spurs moderate, the outer three-fourths of inner ; 

 abdomen smooth. Fore wings triangular ; costa slightly arched 

 at base and hollowed at middle ; apex rounded ; termen straight ; 

 inner margin slightly excavated before tornus ; a small fovea 

 below vein 1 c, distorting it and the median nervure, vein 1 c 

 becoming obsolete before origin of vein 2; vein 2 from near end 

 of cell ; veins 3 and 4 separate from lower angle of cell ; vein 5 

 from just above middle of discocellulars ; veins 6 and 7 from 

 upper angle; veins 8-9 and 10—1 1 stalked from cell. Hind 

 wings : costa highly arched ; apex square ; termen nearly 

 straight ; inner margin folded over on the underside, the fold 

 fringed with long spatulate hair-like scales ; on the terminal area 

 of the upper side the scales are raised and minute ; the median 

 nervure, submedian veins, and discocellulars aborted, the only 

 veins remaining being 6, 7, and 8 ; 6 and 7 from subcostal ner- 

 vure at middle of wing; vein 8 approaches subcostal onty at base, 

 where it bends violently towards costa and arched to costa. 



Type, A. castraria. 



Alaplena castraria, sp. n. (PI. III. fig. 27.) 



Male. — Palpi and frons dark rufous brown ; legs light brown ; 

 vertex Of head white ; antennae shaft white ; tegulae. patagia, and 



