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to inner margin ; postmedial line black, arising from vein 6 at sub- 

 terminal line and very strongly incurved ; subteruiinal line very 

 indistinct, grey, waved, below vein 8 incurved and with white patch 

 beyond it with some yellow and a slight blackish spot on it ; a 

 series of black striae just before termeu. Hind wing black-brown 

 slightly mixed with grey. Underside of both wings dark brown 

 mixed with purplish grey ; fore wing with cupreous red patches on 

 postmedial part of costa and at tornus ; hind wing with the ter- 

 minal area suffused tvith cupreous red, a small blackish discoidal 

 spot and slight curved medial and postmedial lines. 



Hah. Br. Guiana, Demarara {liodway), 1 6 ; Sueinam. Exi^, 

 26 millim. 



6343. Pffictes curvilinea. (Plate CLXXVII. fig. 2.) 

 Fades curvilinea, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 49 (1911). 



$ . Head and tegulae grey mixed with brown ; palpi browner 

 except in front; sides of frons blackish; thorax dark brown, the 

 patagia grey at base and with black streak near upper edge ; pectus 

 whitish, the fore tibiae dark brown, the tarsi black ringed with 

 Avhite ; abdomen dark brown mixed with grey, the ventral surface 

 with slight dark streaks. Fore wing grey suffused with brown with 

 a paler area slightly tinged with red from base through the cell and 

 below costa to the apical whitish patch ; antemedial line double, 

 very indistinct and obliquely curved from costa to submedian fold, 

 then single, black, and angled inwards on vein 1 nearly to base, 

 with some whitish above the tooth ; orbicular and reniform faint, 

 pale reddish slightly defined by brovfn, the former round, the latter 

 with red-brown line in centre ; a very indistinct medial line slightly 

 angled outwards above vein 1; postmedial line almost obsolete on 

 costal area, then black, strongly angled outwards at vein 6, then 

 evenly incurved and double below vein 2, some white points beyond 

 it ou costa and black streaks above and below vein 6; a faint pale 

 subterminal line arising at discal fold, exciirved to vein 3, then 

 incurved and waved; a fine crenulate black line just before termeu 

 except on apical area ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with brown, the terminal area dark ; slight double 

 dark strise on inner margin and a striga below vein 2 near termen ; 

 the underside white irrorated with browm, the terminal area suffused 

 with brown, a brown discoidal spot, faint medial line excurved 

 beyond the cell, a whitish curved postmedial line defined on each 

 side by dark points. 



Hab. CosxA lliCA, Juan Yinas (Schaus), 1 § . Ed-j). 32 millim. 



6344. Pffictes flabella. (Plate CLXXVIT. fig. 3.) 



Iiiffura flabella, Gvote, Can. Ent. xi. p. 208 (1879) ; Smitli. Cat. Noet. 

 N. Am. p. 240. 



Head and thorax red-brown tinged with grey ; neck with black 



