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below veins 5 and 2 ; a very small grayish spot at tornus. Hind , 

 wings thinly scaled, white faintly tinged with yellow. 



Expanse 40 mm. 



Habitat. — El Sitio, Costa Rica. 



Type.— Cat No. 24907, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Near P. suana Druce and P. indistincta Rothschild, the 

 markings still more reduced than in the latter species. 



Collected by Barnes and Schaus. 



Zatrephes novicia, new species. 



Female. — Palpi crimson above, white below. Head, collar, 

 and thorax ochraceous buff thickly irrorated with crimson; 

 abdomen cream color with dorsal crimson mottling at base. 

 Fore wings cinnamon irrorated with crimson; a postmedial 

 flesh colored point above vein 6, and a similar small crescent 

 below vein 5. Hind wings cream color, the termen slightly 

 tinged with crimson. Wings below cream color, the apex and 

 termen of fore wing faintly darker tinged. 



Expanse 35 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Jean, Maroni River, French Guiana. 



Type.— Cat. No. 24908, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Near Z. dithyris Hampson, distinguished by its more uni- 

 form fore wing and pale hind wing. 



Collected by Barnes and Schaus. 



Zatrephes ignota, new species. 



Male. — Palpi brown above, white below. Head and collar 

 white. Thorax and abdomen above cream color, underneath 

 white. Fore wings cream color, with grayish strise on ter- 

 minal portion except on apical space ; traces of an inbent fine 

 brownish antemedial line ; traces of a medial line formed by 

 strise at end of cell, on submedian and a line below it; a dark 

 brown, fine, postmedial line oblique on costa, curved between 

 veins 6 and 7, then inbent and lunular to vein 3 forming the 

 inner edge to a series of hyaline spots from veins 6 to 3, the 

 longest spot between veins 4 and 5, all with their outer edges 

 incurved ; a short oblong spot above vein 6, and a smaller oval 

 spot above vein 7 ; cilia from vein 5 to apex mottled with dark 



