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Athyrma cunesenia, n. sp. 
o'. Head and thorax red-brown, the tegulae with whitish 
tips and the patagia with oblique whitish line near base ; 
pectus brownish white ; legs brownish white suffused with 
brown, the tarsi black-brown ringed with white ; abdomen 
fuscous brown, the crests at base Avhitish and red-brown, 
the anal tuft white below. Fore wing violaceous white 
suffused with red-brown and slightly irrorated with dark 
brown ; a subbasal chocolate-brown spot defined by white 
below the costa ; antemedial line white, incurved below costa 
and very strongly from subcostal nervure to just above 
inner margin where it is strongly bent outwards with a 
slight curve upwards at extremity, a chocolate-brown band 
beyond it with oblique outer edge forming a large conical 
patch in submedian interspace and followed by some whitish 
suffusion ; a ^ minute brown spot in end of cell and spot on 
costa above end of cell ; a large oblique irregularly quadrate 
chocolate-brown patch defined by white before the postmeclial 
line extending from vein 7 to above vein 1 ; postmedial line 
brown, bent outwards below costa, with small black spots 
defined by whitish before it above and below vein 7, then 
rather oblique and sinuous to above vein 1, then retracted 
upwards to lower angle of cell and oblique and sinuous to 
inner margin, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 
terminal line represented by an oblique series of small dark 
brown spots, which are somewhat dentate towards costa and 
closely approximated to the medial part of the postmedial 
line ; a crenulate brown line just before termen. Hind wing 
dark brown. Underside uniform brown with some whitish 
beloAV the corneous SAvelling on costa of fore Aving. 
Hab. Brazil, 1 $ type. Exp. 44 millim. 
Genus ATHYSMINA, nov. 
Type, A. albigutta, Swinh. ( Talapa ), A. M. N. H. (6) xv. 
p. 16 (1895) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iii. p. 67 (1895). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 
2nd joint reaching to vertex of head, moderately scaled in 
front and fringed Avith long hair behind except toAvards base, 
the 3rd long, thickly scaled and fringed with long hair behind ; 
frons smooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; 
antennae of male bipectinate A\fith moderate branches to near 
apex ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and meta- 
thorax Avith spreading crests ; tibiae moderately fringed 
with hair ; abdomen Avith dorsal crest at base only. Fore 
wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute ; the 
termen evenly curved and crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 
