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close above vein 3, this black space narrowing at each end. 

 Hind wings with the costal half primuline yellow, the anal half 

 black. Wings below similar. 



Expanse 38 mm. 



Habitat. — Orizaba, Mexico. 



Type.—Csit No. 24914, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Near A. taeniata Guerin with the yellow predominating in- 

 stead of the black. 



Collector Schaus. 



Amastus opharina, new species. 



Female. — Palpi and f rons fuscous brown ; vertex gray 

 brown. Collar and patagia wood brown; small round black 

 spots on tegulse; a fine black line on patagia; thorax orange 

 yellow with a broad black medial line. Abdomen above paler 

 yellow with fine black segmental lines; a broad fuscous dorsal 

 shade narrowing at base and terminally ; underneath white ; a 

 broad black ventral stripe except on last two segments ; a 

 broad lateral dark gray stripe edged below by a fine black 

 line. Legs inwardly gray brown, outwardly whitish, tarsi 

 gray brown. Fore wings thinly scaled in disc, light brownish 

 gray shading to wood brown terminally and crossed by fine 

 brownish striae; a wood brown shade at base mixed with 

 black ; a quadrate wood brown patch at end of cell and be- 

 yond from vein 4 to costa outwardly edged by a finely wavy 

 black line from vein 5 to costa ; costal margin from basal shade 

 to quadrate patch with three light brownish gray spots and 

 two wood brown spots ; inner margin broadly dark brown 

 narrowing to tornus; an irregular row of small subterminal 

 semihyaline gray spots, very indistinct. Hind wings semi- 

 hyaline grayish white, the margins broadly shaded with grayish 

 brown; discocellular darker shaded. Wings below pale gray- 

 ish with brown irrorations ; a vague and large fuscous shade 

 at end of cell on fore wing. 



Expanse 65 mm. 



Habitat. — Nova Friburgo, Brazil. 



Type.— Cat No. 24915, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



