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shaded with brownish grey. Secondaries white. Underneath, the 

 primaries are yellowish white. Exp. 24 millim. 



Hah. Tijuca, Petropolis. 



Ohs. The female similar in every respect. 



58. Salopola vestalis, sp. nov. 



c? • Silvery white ; the inner margin of the primaries very 

 light brown. On the costal margin of the secondaries a long 

 tuft of yellow hairs. Underneath white ; a tuft of yellow hairs 

 on the primaries just above the median vein, and curling over the 

 origin of veins 2, 3, and 4. Exp. 33 millim. 



Hah. Castro, Parana. 



Ohs. This species is closely allied to S. argentea, Walk., but 

 differs in its white secondaries and tufts of hairs, which are longer 

 in S. argentea and black on the underside of the primaries. 



59. Areva perpensa, sp. nov. 



S . Body white above, yellow underneath. Primaries white ; 

 the costal margin pale yellow ; the inner margin faintly brownish. 

 Secondaries white, with a few long yellow hairs in the cell. 

 Underneath white ; the primaries with the outer margin slightly 

 smoky, the costal margin orange, and there is a large oval cluster 

 of long hairs. The primaries are a little longer than the second- 

 aries and very broad. Exp. 31 millim. 

 Hah. Jalapa, Mexico. 



Fam. Notodontid-E. 



60. (Edemasia tropica, sp. nov. 



Palpi, head, and collar brown. Thorax whitish. Abdomen 

 light brown. Primaries above light grey ; the .costa and base 

 shaded with brown ; a wavy, fine, geminate, black median line, 

 inwardly shaded with brownish, and followed at the end of the 

 cell by an inwardly curved black crescent-shaped line ; an outer 

 geminate black line, interrupted and very indistinct ; a terminal 

 black wavy line, with inwardly a short black streak on each vein. 

 Secondaries brown. Underneath, primaries brown, secondaries 

 whitish margined with brown. Exp. 39 millim. 



Hah. Aroa, Venezuela. 



61. KlEARGIA MASTA, sp. nOV. 



Palpi, head, and thorax brown, thickly mottled with green 

 scales. Abdomen dark grey, with still darker clusters of scales 

 subdorsally. Primaries above moss-green, mottled with brown, 

 and paler beyond the cell ; at the base a fine black streak 

 surmounting a pale spot on the inner margin : the basal and 

 median lines almost imperceptible ; a dark brown transverse streak 

 at the end of the cell ; the outer line represented by two series of 

 minute dark spots on the veins separated by white scales ; the 

 submarginal line indistinct, forming towards the inner angle some 



