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Show 336 MR. w. SCHAUS O N N E W [May 3, Head light grey. Thorax greyish, with the anterior portion velvety brown. Abdomen brownish. Expanse 44 mm. Hab. Rio Janeiro. SYMMERISTA TETHYS. Primaries dark cinereous with transverse brownish shades ; two inner and an outer blackish line; a marginal row of black spots, inwardly edged with yellow ; a yellowish spot circled with black at the end of the cell; a whitish crescent-shaped spot on the costa near the apex; the fringe with a yellow spot at the end of each vein. Secondaries brown, very dark on the outer half; the fringe and base yellowish. Underneath, the secondaries are yellow, with the costal margin narrowly, and the outer margin broadly, brown; the fringe, however, yellow. Body brown above, yellow underneath. Expanse 45 mm. Hab. Corcovado, Rio Janeiro. SYMMERISTA PROCNE. Primaries above light grey, irrorated with darker grey and reddish scales; a large space at the inner angle white; a marginal interrupted black line; a submarginal reddish transverse shade ; the apex reddish brown; the fringe on the apical half of the outer margin reddish with black spots, containing each a white dot; the fringe near the inner angle white. Secondaries above brown ; fringe whitish. Underneath brown; the outer margins luteous, the primaries having also a black band on the extreme margin; fringe on the primaries reddish, on the secondaries white. Head and anterior portion of thorax, also anal segment, reddish brown ; body otherwise cinereous, with an indistinct greyish subdorsal line on the abdomen. Expanse 63 mm. Hab. Corcovado, Rio Janeiro. SYMMERISTA MYCONOS. Primaries above light grey : three basal irregular dark lines; in the cell a V-shaped black line ; two outer, parallel, lunular lines, followed by a series of blackish spots, largest towards the costal margin; a submarginal, angular black line, preceded at the apex by a heavy blackish shade. Secondaries with the basal half whitish, the outer half dark grey, and the fringe white. Primaries underneath dull grey, with a little white towards the base and on the outer margin between the veins. Body light grey. Collar edged with black. Expanse 34 mm. Hab. Petropolis, Brazil. HARPYIA (?) TENUIS. Primaries above dull silvery white, thinly speckled with blackish |