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the base, the fringe alternately black and white: head and thorax greyish-brown, the abdomen blackish- 
brown, the antenne black ; the legs black, banded with white on the upperside. Expanse 154, inch. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Candelaria Mts. (Underwood). 
One specimen. 
11. Celena viridis, sp. n. (Tab. XCIII. fig. 24.) 
Male. Primaries pale olive-green, crossed by two waved white lines—the first near the base, the second beyond 
the middle,—and with a rather large white spot close to the apex, two black lines at the end of the cell, 
and two pinkish markings near the anal angle; secondaries blackish-brown ; the fringe of both wings 
greenish-yellow : head and thorax olive-green ; the abdomen greenish-black, the anus yellowish-green ; 
the antenne and palpi black. Expanse 1} inch. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Candelaria Mts, (Underwood). 
One specimen. 
12. Celena quadrilineata ? 
Mamestra (Diathecia?) quadrilineata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. i. p. 140, t. 4. fig. 15 (¢ ) (1873)*; 
J. B. Smith, Cat. Noct. Bor. Am. (Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 44) p. 126%. 
Hab. Norra America, California!2, Arizona?.—Mexico, Jalapa (IM. Trujillo). 
A pair from Jalapa, very similar to Grote’s figure of M. quadrilineata, the types of 
which are in the late Henry Edwards’s collection and in that of the British Museum. 
13. Celena nigropuncta, sp. n. (Tab. XCIII. fig. 25.) 
Primaries pale brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by three waved darker brown lines—the 
first close to the base, the second at the end of the cell, and the third beyond the cell,—with a white 
streak at the end of the cell, a white submarginal waved line extending from the apex to the anal angle, 
and on the outer side of the white line, close to the apex, a rather large, elongated, black spot, a few 
small black spots near the anal angle, the fringe alternately black and brown; secondaries dark brown, 
the fringe yellowish-brown : head, antenne, and thorax brown (abdomen wanting). Expanse 1 inch. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (M. Trujillo). 
One specimen. 
HYDRACIA (to follow the genus Celwna, I. p. 276). 
Hydrecia, Guenée, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1841, p. 237 (sine descr.) ; Walker, Cat. ix. p. 158. 
Hydrecia, Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 125. 
1. Hydrecia pyrrha. (Tab. XCV. fig. 1.) 
Hydrecia pyrrha, Druce, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xiii. p. 859 (1894) °. 
Primaries dark reddish-brown, irrorated with paler brown and greyish scales, a fine silvery-white streak at the 
end of the cell, the costal, outer, and inner margins narrowly edged with greyish-white ; secondaries pale 
brown, the veins and outer margin darker, the fringe pale brown: head, antenne, thorax, and abdomen 
dark brown. Expanse 1} inch, 
Hab. GUATEMALA, near the city (Rodriguez). 
