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Show 326 MR. w. SCHAUS ON NEW [May 3, hairs. All the legs tufted. Primaries broad, the apex rounded, the outer margin very convex. AROTROS STRIATA. Wings buff, all the veins and lines between the veins brown. The primaries with the base and half of the costal margin dark grey. Head dark grey. Collar brown, with dark margins. Thorax and abdomen buff, the latter with numerous longitudinal dark streaks. Expanse 45 m m. Hab. Novo Friburgo, Brazil. OLCECLOSTERIA MAYA. Primaries above very light grey, an indistinct basal and outer transverse shade, beyond the latter a row of minute spots on the veins ; a subapical, small, quadrate vitreous spot; the fringe on the middle of the outer margin dark brown ; a minute black spot in the cell. Secondaries pale brownish grey. Underneath brownish grey, somewhat darker on the outer margin of the primaries below the apex ; a submarginal brown line and a median brownish shade on all the wings ; a fine transverse streak in the cell on the primaries. Body above grey; underneath light brownish grey. Expanse 35 m m. Hab. Jalapa, Mexico. OLCECLOSTERIA MTJTUSCA. Male. Primaries above light grey, speckled with blackish scales, the apices darker; a basal and a median transverse dark wavy line; an outer row of minute black points on the veins, and a very small subapical round vitreous spot. Secondaries brownish, with two dark transverse lines. Underneath greyish brown, the apices of the primaries darker: the outer line on the secondaries forming numerous acute angles, also a small black point in the cell. Expanse, 3 32 mm., 5 44 m m. Hab. Rio Janeiro. Very similar to Olceclosteria microps, Walker, but differs in its colour, the vitreous spot and the outer line on the secondaries underneath. Fam. DREPANULIDJE. PEROPHORA CORCOVADA. Apices of primaries not prolonged. Primaries above grey, tinged with reddish at the base, and with brown on the costal margin near the apex; a blackish submarginal line outwardly shaded with reddish brown ; a vitreous spot at the end of the cell. Secondaries above with the base grey ; a transverse median black line, beyond which the wing is reddish brown, except the extreme outer margin, which is grey ; a small vitreous spot as on the primaries. Underneath grey speckled with black ; the disk of the primaries reddish, |