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mark. Wings hyaline, narrowly and evenly bordered with black ; 

 all the veins black and a black line at the end of the cell. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



Hab. Castro, Parana. 



10. Dycladia ciitola, sp. nov. 



Palpi yellow. Head black, irons grey. Collar yellow. Thorax 

 yellow, with three black stripes and a metallic blue spot posteriorly. 

 Abdomen yellow ; the third segment dorsally black, with three blue 

 spots and two minute yellow spots ; the following two segments 

 with a black subdorsal spot each ; last segments black, with a sub- 

 dorsal and lateral blue spots. Wings hyaline, narrowly margined 

 with black ; the apex of the primaries broadly black ; the costal 

 vein yellow; the inner margins yellowish. Exp. 26 millim. 



Hab. Aroa, Venezuela. 



11. Marissa regia, sp. nov. 



Antennae black, tipped with white. Head black, frons whitish, 

 two metallic blue spots posteriorly. Collar black, two metallic 

 blue spots. Thorax black, a broad white streak on patagia ; a 

 posterior blue and whitish spot. Abdomen, first three segments 

 crimson, the second spotted Avith black and blue ; the other 

 segments black, with a subdorsal, two lateral, and two ventral rows 

 of white spots. Legs black ; tarsi, joints, and fore coxae white. 

 Primaries hyaline, the margins broadly black, still more so at the 

 apex and inner angle ; a small vitreous elongate spot on the costal 

 margin at the base ; a basal transverse black mark ; a large black 

 spot at the end of the cell, and connected by a broad black mark 

 on vein 2 with the inner angle. Secondaries hyaline, the margins 

 irregularly bordered with black. Exp. 34 millim. 



Hab. Aroa, Venezuela. 



Obs. Allied to M. eane, Hiibn. 



12. iETHRIA PAULA, Sp. UOV. 



Body velvety black ; the last three segments of the abdomen 

 dorsally and laterally crimson ; a round whitish spot on either 

 side of the collar. Wings hyaline, the veins black and all the 

 margins broadly black; at the end of the cell on the primaries 

 a broad black spot from the costa to nearly the black border 

 of the inner margin. Exp. 46 millim. 



Hab. San Paulo, S.E. Brazil. 



Obs. Closely allied to JE. hamiorrlioidalis, Stoll, which has, 

 however, the basal segment of the abdomen crimson, and has 

 a black spot on the costal margin of the secondaries near the 

 apex. 



Ptychotricos, gen. nov. 



Antennas pectinated in both sexes, more so in the male than in 

 the female. Primaries long and narrow, the outer margin very 



