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brown. Secondaries semi-hyaline, whitish, the veins and the margins dusky black. 
Underneath the primaries are black with some vague whitish spots beyond the cell. 
Expanse, 39 mm. 
Habitat: Jalapa, Mexico. Also in coll. British Museum. 
Eucereon patrona, sp. nov. 
Head, collar and thorax pale brownish gray, with a broad velvety brown lateral 
streak. Abdomen dorsally crimson with some black hairs subdorsally on the first 
three segments ; laterally a broad black streak; anus black; underneath yellow. 
Primaries pale brownish gray with some dark but indistinct streaks along the mar 
gins forming vague transverse lines, which become lost in a broad velvety brown shade 
extending from the base to nearly the apex. Secondaries whitish, semi-hyaline 
the veins and fringe brownish ; the apex and anal angle clouded with brown. Ex 
panse, 43 mm. 
Habitat: Aroa, Venezuela; Orizaba, Mexico. 
Eucereon velutina, sp. nov 
Head and thorax gray; patagiae brown. Abdomen dorsally with the basa 
half black, the anal half orange with subdorsal and lateral black spots. Underneatl 
blackish with two yellow stripes. Primaries rich brown, paler at the base of th< 
inner margin; a basal dark line from the costa; a narrow triangular dark space 01 
the outer margin; an outer wavy line almost imperceptible above vein 4, but ver 
dark and becoming broader below it to the inner margin. Secondaries smoky black 
the costal margin yellowish; a black point in the cell. Expance, 27 mm. 
Habitat: Sao Paulo, S. E. Brazil. 
Eucereon cinctum, sp. nov. 
Head black; reddish posteriorly. Thorax smoky brown with some pinkis 
streaks and a pink subdorsal spot posteriorly. Abdomen black above with a broa 
crimson space before the anal segment; underneath brownish with two yelk^ 
streaks. Primaries smoky black with the veins, a basal, an outer and a submargiru 
transverse line fawn color; a slight diaphanous spot in the cell and another beyon 
it. Secondaries hyaline with the outer margin broadly black. Underneath tb 
primaries are black spotted with white. Expanse, 27 mm. 
Habitat: Trinidad, B. W. I. 
Erithales capsica, sp. nov. 
Plead pale gray with a minute black spot. Collar pale gray with two lait 
black spots. Thorax pale gray; a black dorsal line ; two small spots on patagi. 
Abdomen above gray at the base, otherwise pink with a dorsal grayish line. Unde 
neath white. Primaries grayish white with black spots as in E. guacolda Poey , b 
larger. Secondaries with the base semi-hyaline white, the outer half gray. Undt 
neath the wings are dark. Expanse, 33 mm. 
Habitat: Sao Paulo, S. E. Brazil. 
Allied to E. guacolda Poey,and E . quadricolor Walk, which 
wrongly placed under Theages in Kirby’s Catalogue of Moths. T 1 
