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black with some green points ; terminal black spots expanding 

 on either side of veins towards base. Hind wings drab; a fine 

 darker terminal shade expanding into spots on whitish cilia. 

 Fore wings below brownish gray, the costa greenish white 

 with quadrate dark spots ; cilia white broadly tipped with dark 

 brown. Hind wings below whitish thickly irrorated with 

 brownish gray; a dark discal point and fine postmedial curved 

 line; cilia whitish buff with brown spots at veins. 



Expanse, 33 mm. 



Habitat. — Volcan Santa Maria, Guatemala. 



Type.— Cat. No. 25636, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Nearest H. confusa Schaus. 



Hyriomena aldricaria, new species. 



Male. — Palpi metallic green purple, underneath with a roseate 

 whitish line. Head metallic steel color, with some silvery white 

 scaling on frons. Collar roseate buff. Thorax mottled olive 

 green and fuscous. Abdomen dorsally greenish on basal half 

 and on following segments posteriorly, otherwise with fuscous 

 bands ; silvery gray shading laterally ; underneath deep neutral 

 gray. Fore wing from base to near middle green, limited by a 

 partly broken almost vertical black line ; base narrowly black ; 

 a subbasal black line outbent from costa, incurved below cell 

 and outbent forming larger triangular spots on margins ; ante- 

 medial band consisting of large deep livid brown spots edged 

 with black ; medial space orange vinaceous crossed by long 

 green striae, outwardly edged by an irregular black line start- 

 ing from a triangular spot on costa, narrow, outbent below 7, 

 inangled on 6, incurved along discocellular, and broader between 



5 and 3, fine and outcurved below 3, inbent and broken to 

 inner margin, followed throughout by a sinuous green shade ; 

 a postmedial spot from costa, very irregular, expanding above 



6 to vein 4, deep livid brown edged with black ; a similar sub- 

 terminal sinuous band from inner margin to vein 3; a black 

 brown spot at apex and a smaller subterminal spot below vein 

 T ; terminal triangular spots their base on terminal edge ; ter- 

 minal space otherwise orange vinaceous crossed bv green 



