AGROPHILA.—-METOPONIA. 303 
Hab. Mexico, Omilteme in Guerrero 8000 feet (H. H. Smith, July). 
One specimen. 
7. Agrophila phenna, sp. n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 8.) 
Primaries dusky white, darkest along the inner margin and near the anal angle, with three small dots along 
the costal margin, one at the end of the cell, and a small one in the cell, brownish-black, and two similarly- 
coloured streaks on the inner margin near the anal angle, the fringe dark brown ; secondaries dusky white, 
darkest round the outer margin: head, collar, and tegulea white, the thorax and abdomen brownish-white, 
the legs and antenne black. Expanse ;$, inch. 
Hab. Cuernavaca in Morelos (H. H. Smith, June). 
This species is very distinct from any other known to me. 
METOPONIA *. 
Metoponia (Duponchel), Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 206 (1852) ; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 775. 
Walker included two species in this genus, and since the publication of his Catalogue 
several others have been described by various authors. We have lately received three 
species from Mexico, all of which were captured in the State of Guerrero. 
1. Metoponia demo, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 9.) 
Primaries bright yellow, with three brown marks along the costal margin, a large brown spot about the middle 
of the inner margin, and several minute dots near the base, an indistinct waved line crossing the wing 
beyond the middle from the costal to the inner margin, and a submarginal row of small brown spots 
extending from the apex to the anal angle, the fringe brown and yellow; secondaries black, with the 
fringe yellow; the underside of both wings yellow but much suffused with brown: head, palpi, and 
antenne brown, the thorax and anus yellow, the abdomen black above and reddish-brown beneath, the 
legs pale brown. Expanse 13 inch. 
Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero 6000 feet (H. H. Smith, August). 
This species is perhaps nearest allied to UZ. obtusa, Herr.-Schaff. Two specimens only 
were obtained by Mr. Smith. 
2. Metoponia primulina, sp.n. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 10.) 
Primaries pale primrose-colour, with four minute dots placed in a straight line and extending along the costal 
margin, and a brown streak close to the base on the inner margin ; secondaries dusky white, darker in some 
specimens than in others; the underside of both wings cream-colour, that of the primaries irrorated with 
black scales and with the costal margin black at the base and thence to the apex yellow: head, front of the 
thorax, and tegule pale primrose-colour, the tegule edged with dark brown, the rest of the thorax dark 
brown, the abdomen brown above but yellowish-white beneath, the antenne and legs brown. Expanse 
13 inch. 
Had. Mexico, Omilteme in Guerrero 8000 feet (H. H. Smith, August). 
Allied to the preceding, from which it may be at once distinguished by its paler 
primaries and very differently-coloured secondaries. Several specimens. 
* This generic name, as noted by Walker, is preoccupied in Diptera, Macquart, 1847. 
