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Show 282 MR. w. SCHAUS O N N E W [Apr. 5, ECPANTHERIA PELLUCIDA, sp. nov. Male. Primaries hyaline, exeept the base and the costal and inner margins, which are white spotted with grey edged with black. Secondaries hyaline, except along the costal and inner margins, which are white, the costal margin being spotted with black. In some specimens there is a black spot at the anal angle. Head and thorax light grey, with darker spots edged with black. Abdomen dorsally bluish black ; ventrally white. Expanse 55 m m. The female has the body as in the male. The primaries are white crossed by six rows of large grey spots edged with black. The secondaries are black, with the costal and outer margins white spotted with grey, and there is a white band starting from the costal margin beyond the middle and extending halfway across the wing. Expanse 62 m m. Hab. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. CARALES CELER, sp. nov. Primaries above light browu ; a black dot at the end of the cell; a basal and a median irregular transverse row of small and widely separated blackish streaks; a minute blackish streak at the apex and also one at the inner angle. Secondaries above smoky. Underneath : primaries brown ; a large dark patch at the end of the cell; the secondaries paler, with a median transverse smoky band. Head and thorax light brown. Abdomen brown dorsally, yellow laterally, light brown underneath. Expanse 38 m m. Hab. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. OPHARUS LUGUBRIS, sp. nov. Dark grey, the abdomen laterally shaded with pale grey. Expanse 56 m m. Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. OPHARUS MOROSUS, sp. nov. Primaries grey, a darker shade crossing the cell near its extremity, and a similar undefined shade just beyond the cell. Secondaries white with grey margins. Head and thorax grey. Abdomen very light grey, darker subdorsally. Expanse 42 m m. Hab. Peru. SERMYLA MORTA, sp. nov. Primaries above brownish black, yellow along the costal margin for two thirds from the base, which yellow is joined at its extremity by an oblique yellow band crossing the wing from the costal margin to the outer margin just above the inner angle ; underneath black, with a yellow space at the base, and the yellow oblique band as on the |