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a post-medial fine black line not reaching costa finely edged 

 outwardly with yellow, then a subterminal purplish red shade ; 

 termen roseate gray. Fore wings below tinged with roseate to 

 post-medial line which is fine, darker roseate, starting from 

 costa near apex ; a brown spot around discocellular crossed by 

 a white line. Hind wings below pale ochreous white ; a small 

 white spot on discocellular edged with brown ; a faint, roseate, 

 straight post-medial line. 



Expanse, 55 mm. 



Habitat. — ^Curitiba, Brazil. 



Type.— Cat. No. 23978, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Ormiscodes caxambua, new species. 



Male. — Palpi dull dark brown, with darker shading behind. 

 Head dark reddish brown ; a light brown tuft between an- 

 tennas ; antennae with the shaft brown, the pectinations fuscous. 

 Collar and thorax dark brown. Abdomen above dark yellow 

 with black segmental lines, underneath dark grayish brown. 

 Thorax below and legs dark brown. Fore wings ochre white 

 irrorated and suffused with dull grayish brown ; the base 

 broadly fuscous brown with short pale streaks at base of cell, 

 also above and below vein 1, limited by a curved pale ante- 

 medial shade outwardly edged by a dark line, deeply dentate 

 on median vein and submedian fold, followed in cell by a 

 fuscous streak ; a black spot on discocellular ; a pale post-medial 

 shade outcurved and somewhat macular from costa to vein 5 

 preceded by dark shading and followed by a dark spot on 

 costa; from vein 5 to inner margin the post-medial is dark, 

 lunular, with inwardly projecting lines on veins, and is out- 

 wardly narrowly pale edged, followed from vein 3 to inner 

 margin by a narrow dark shade, expanding to tornus ; irregu- 

 lar dark shading on terminal space crossed by the paler veins ; 

 cilia dark with pale spots at veins. Hind wings pale thickly 

 suffused with dark shading, darkest from cell to inner margin ; 

 a black spot on discocellular ; an interrupted subterminal 

 fuscous shade, a dark terminal line ; cilia with a pale shade at 

 base. Wings below suffused with fuscous gray; fore wings 



