PARACARSiA. EP10ARS1 A . 
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Paracarsia antitermina, n. sp. 
§. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white tinged with 
red- brown, the two latter irrorated with a few blackish scales ; 
antennae browner ; fore and mid legs suffused with dark 
brown, the tibiae at extremities and tarsi banded with white. 
Fore wing ochreous white tinged with rufous and ha-orated 
with a few dark brown scales ; a minute blackish spot in the 
cell near base ; antemedial line slight, red- brown, incurved 
in the cell, excurved and slightly sinuous below it ; a small 
brown annulus in middle of cell ; reniform suffused with brown 
and slightly defined by brown, figure-of-eight-shaped ; post- 
medial line indistinctly creamy white, oblique towards costa, 
angled outwards at vein 7 to below apex, then inwardly 
oblique ; a curved subterminal series of small black-brown 
spots defined on outer side by white scales, the spots between 
vein 2 and inner margin larger ; a series of black points before 
termen and a fine terminal blackish line. Hind wing white 
tinged with rufous and irrorated with a few blackish scales ; 
two blackish discoidal points ; postmedial line white faintly 
defined on each side by red-brown, almost straight ; a faint 
whitish subterminal line with black points on its outer edge 
between veins 5 and 2, an oblique bar in submedian hater- 
space and slight spot at inner margin ; a series of black 
points before termen and a fine blackish terminal line. 
Underside of fore wing whitish tinged with red-brown and 
irrorated with brown except on inner area, a small discoidal 
spot defined by black-brown, indistinct postmedial dark 
line, oblique to vein 6, then inwardly oblique, and subterminal 
series of blackish points ; hind wing white tinged with rufous 
and irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal spot, curved 
postmedial line, and subterminal series of faint blackish 
points. 
Hab. Brazil, Rio de Janeiro (Wilson), 1 $ type. Exp. 46 
million. 
Genus EPICAR3IA, nov. 
Type, E. bigutta, Walk. (Thermesia), xv. 1857 (1858). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to rather above vertex of head, moderately scaled 
in front and slightly fringed with hair behind towards ex- 
tremity, the 3rd long and smoothly scaled, porrect ; frons 
smooth, with pointed tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; 
antennae of male with long bristles and cilia ; thorax clothed 
almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae slightly 
fringed with hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base of 
dorsum but without crests. Fore wing with the apex some- 
what produced, the termen rather oblique below vein 4 and 
