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orbicular and reniform with very faint j-ellowish annuli, the former 

 inwardly oblique, the latter somewhat constricted at middle ; a 

 small oblique dark mark filled in with ochreous on costa before the 

 postmedial line, which is brown and very oblique from costa to 

 vein 6, then indistinct, pale, minutely waved, incurved below 

 vein 4, an oblique pale patch beyond it from costa ; subtermmal 

 line indistinct, pale, minutely waved, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points and striga above tornus 

 slightly defined on inner side by ochreous ; cilia brown and 

 ochreous. Hind wing ochreous suffused with red-brown, the 

 terminal area darker ; cilia chequered red-brown and ochreous ; 

 the underside ochreous white slightly tinged with brown, a dark 

 discoidal lunule and fine terminal line. 



Hub. Venezuela, Aroa, type f J in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 

 26 millim. 



5514. Drobeta phseobasis, n. sp. (Plate CLVIII. fig. 30.) 



5 . Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous and some 

 brown ; pectus and legs pale, the tarsi brown with pale rings ; 

 abdomen fuscous brown, the ventral surface pale. Tore wing 

 ochreous suftused in parts with rufous and irrorated with some 

 blackish scales except on disk ; the basal inner area fuscous, 

 expanding triangularly towards costa before the obliquely incurved 

 black antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform pale brownish with 

 very indistinct pale annuli, the former small, brown, the latter 

 rather narrow and oblique ; some blackish striae from medial part 

 of costa ; postmedial line indistinct, pale, oblique from costa to 

 vein 6, then minutely dentate and excurved to vein 4 near sub- 

 terminal line, then strongly incurved ; subterminal line pale, 

 defined on inner side by somewhat dentate dark marks towards 

 costa and by blackish suffusion towards inner margin, waved, 

 angled outwards to near termen at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, a wedge-shaped 

 black mark beyond it at discal fold ; a terminal series of black 

 striae ; cilia ochreous and fuscous brown intersected with whitish 

 at vein 2. Hind wing dark cupreous brown ; the cilia yellowish at 

 base, chequered white and brown at tips ; the underside ochreous 

 white tinged with rufous, a brown discoidal lunule, minutely waved 

 curved postmedial line, and dark mark above tornus. 



Hah. W. Colombia, El Credo, 1 $ type. Exp. 28 millim. 



Genus PARANGITIA, nov. 



Type, P. cervina. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3i-d short; frons smooth; eyes large, 

 round; antenna of male with fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed with hair and 

 scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, the mesothorax with slight paired 

 crests, the metathorax with spreading crest ; tibias moderately fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen long with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with 

 the apex rectangular, the termen oblique towards tornus, not cn^nulate; veins 



