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yellowish scales; the costa also speckled with black and dark green scales; near the 
base of the cell a large cluster of greenish black scales and an oblique mark of sim¬ 
ilar scales from the costa subapically; the apex whitish; two round tufts of raised 
scales in the cell; a faint submarginal brownish shade. Secondaries greyish brown ; 
a minute spot in the cell. Expanse, 22 mm. 
Habitat: Sao Paulo, S. E. Brazil. 
Nola natama, sp. nov. 
Head and thorax white. Abdomen cream color. Primaries white on the basal 
half and at the apex; some olive shadings along the costa; the outer line formed of 
minute clusters of velvety black scales, heavily shaded on either side with brown and 
yellowish scales. Secondaries dark grey. Expanse, 18 mm. 
Habitat: Sao Paulo, S. E. Brazil. 
Nola solvita, sp. nov. 
Body dark grey. Primaries whitish grey, thickly speckled- with brown and 
black scales, giving the wings a dark appearance; an indistinct basal and outer line ; 
a faint median shade and another, subterminal; fringe brown. Secondaries smoky 
grey. Expanse, 17 mm. 
Habitat: Castro Parana. 
LYMANTRIIDyE. 
Orgyia falcata, sp. nov. 
Body grey. Primaries with the basal third brownish grey, limited by a wavy 
dark brown line and crossed at the base by a similar line which does not reach the 
inner margin; the rest of the wing grey with a curved lunular line beyond the cell 
enclosing toward the costal margin, a large smoky space ; at the end of the cell a 
small brownish spot, a subterminal brown shade streaked with dark brown near the 
apex ; a terminal brown line; fringe pale at the base, dark terminally. Secondaries 
brownish grey with the fringe as on the primaries. Expanse, 28 mm. 
Habitat: Jalapa, Mexico. 
This species is allied to O. leucostigma S. & A., but the primaries 
are somewhat produced at the apex. 
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CYLLOPODIDHE. 
Rhosus unipuncta, sp. nov. 
Body dark brown, anus orange. Primaries very dark velvety brown, thinly 
speckled with greyish scales; a large oblique white spot beyond the cell; fringe 
light brown. Secondaries dark brown, fringe mottled white and brown. Un¬ 
derneath dark brown, the primaries with a white discal spot and the apex narrowly 
white; secondaries with two white lines from the base, fringe white. Expanse, 
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Habitat: Sao Paulo, S. E. Brazil. 
