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with the basal half deep orange, the terminal half black- 
brown with a chocolate gloss, its inner edge excurved beyond 
the cell ; cilia blackish, whitish at tips to vein 2, then orange. 
Underside of fore wing with the base of costal area and cell 
orange, the inner area whitish, the rest of wing reddish brown ; 
hind wing with the orange extending to well beyond the cell 
and on inner area to tornus. 
Hab. Venezuela, Esteban Valley, Las Quiguas (Klages), 
1 $ type. Exp. 42 millim. 
Athysania chrysotornus, n. sp. 
Head white with some rufous on upper part of frons, 
the back of head rufous ; antennae dark brown ; palpi pale 
rufous, white in front ; thorax deep rufous ; pectus white ; 
legs white suffused with red-brown ; abdomen dark greyish 
brown, the ventral surface white, the anal tuft white tinged 
with rufous. Fore wing deep rufous, the terminal area 
suffused with grey ; antemedial line represented by slight 
double oblicpie silvery white streaks from submedian fold 
to vein 1 ; a black discoidal point ; traces of two waved 
brown postmedial lines ; some silvery white irroration on 
postmedial costal area ; an indistinct double brown sub- 
terminal line from costa to termen above tornus ; the cilia 
at the lobe and the inner margin towards tornus yellow, the 
latter crossed by a brown striga before tornus ; a whitish 
terminal line except towards tornus ; cilia whitish mixed 
with red- brown. Hind wing dax - k chocolate-brown with an 
oblique orange-yellow band from middle of costa to vein 2 
beyond the cell, its lower extremity rounded ; cilia brown and 
white mixed. Underside of fore wing dark brown, the costa 
x’ufous, some yellowish white below base of costa and in cell, 
the inner margin whitish ; hind wing with the yellow extending 
on costa and in cell to base and on costa to apex, the basal 
inner area whitish, extending on inner margin to tornus. 
Hab. Br. Guiana, Demerara {Rodway), 1 q type. Exp. 
42 millim. 
Athysania flavidens, n. sp. 
Gonodonta choninea, Wlk. xii. p. 951 (nec Stoll). 
q. Head and thorax deep rufous ; antennae dark brown ; 
palpi white in front ; pectus white ; legs whitish suffused 
with red-brown ; abdomen chocolate- brown, the ventral 
surface white. Fore wing deep rufous ; a slight oblique 
antemedial white striga from costa ; a black discoidal point ; 
traces of a double dark brown postmedial line, excurved 
below costa, then waved, some white scales on its outer edge 
at costa ; the terminal area pale grey traversed by three 
