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mottling, which is also very plentiful below the costa and near the base, and below the fold; a series 
of three costal, one apical, five terminal and one tornal, squarish black spots precede the bone-white 
cilia which are streaked with fuscous below the middle. Exp. al. 32 mm. Hindwings iridescent, 
pearly lilac, shaded with brownish grey around the margins and across the apex beyond their middle ; 
cilia pale brownish grey, with a darker shade-line running through them near their base; there is a 
tolerably strong ochreous hair-pencil from the base of the costa in the ¢. Abdomen dark greyish 
brown; anal tuft bright ochreous. Hind Legs bone-whitish, tibiae shaded with greyish fuscous 
externally, the fringe above tending to ochreous; hind tarsi broadly banded with dark brownish fuscous. 
Lype 3 (5855 Wism. Det. 1908) U.S. Nat. Mus. 
Hab. Costa Rica: Banana River, III. 1906 (W. Schaus). Unique. 
3. Ethmia coronata, sp. n. (Tab. V. fig. 6.) 
Antennae dark fuscous. Palpi whitish, with a fuscous ring before the middle of the median joint, and a 
narrower ring before its apex; two broad rings on the terminal joint. Head dirty white, with a large 
fuscous spot above posteriorly. Thorax dirty white, with fuscous spots—one central, six large, marginal, 
and one small, posterior. Forewings smoky white, suffused with dark brownish fuscous ahove the fold, over 
which this colour slightly projects, in a broad patch before, and another about the middle; below the fold, 
and before the second projection, are two fuscous spots, a reduplicated fuscous spot lying in the fold before 
its outer extremity ; the white colour is thrown up obliquely, across the fold to the end of the cell, and 
is produced along the termen and reproduced about the apex, reappearing more slightly along the costa, 
but much mixed and clouded with fuscous; a series of ill-defined fuscous spots occurs around the apex 
and termen, at the base of the dirty white cilia, which are interrupted by fuscous below the apex. 
Exp. al. 31 mm. Hindwings pale, iridescent, semitransparent, rosy pink; cilia yellowish white. 
Abdomen light ochreous. Legs dirty whitish ochreous. 
Type 3 (65956) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.) BM. 
Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Chilpancingo, 4600 ft., VI. (H. H. Smith). Unique. 
Allied to 5899 discostrigella Chmb., but much larger, and easily distinguished by 
the colour of the hindwings as also by the paler dorsum and subplical spots. 
4, Ethmia flavicaudata, sp.n. (Tab. V. fig. 7.) 
Antennae olivaceous, dusted with dirty white. Palpi slender, recurved to above the vertex, the terminal 
joint scarcely more than half the length of the median; dirty white, with two dark brownish annulations 
on the median joint, and two on the terminal, separated by approximately equal spaces. Head and 
Thorax dirty whitish, the latter somewhat spotted with olive-grey; the base of the tegulae olive-grey. 
Forewings dirty white, much suffused and blotched with dark olive-grey, a slight iridescent greenish 
metallic sheen in certain lights on the basal half, especially below the fold; the olive-grey blotches are 
about equally distributed over the wing-surface, to beyond the middle, and are rendered confluent with 
each other by a suffusion of scales of the same colour between them ; beyond the middle, an irregular 
band of semidetached blotches crosses the wing from costa to dorsum, a central one, larger than the 
others, extending nearly to the termen and staining the terminal cilia below the apex and termen, before 
the base of the white cilia. vp. al. 26 mm. Hindwings purplish grey, with an aeneous brown gloss 
around their margins, and along the basal third of the white cilia. Abdomen brownish grey, the 
terminal two segments yellow-ochreous. Legs whitish, the tarsi with several brownish grey annulations. 
Type 2 (4658 San Juan) Mus. Wlsm. BM. [Type ¢ (5861 Wlsm. Det. 1908); PT. (5862 Wlsm. Det. 
1908) US. Nat. Mus. } 
Tlab. Mexico: VERA cruz: San Juan, 600 ft. (W. Schaus); Cordova, IV. 1908 
(F. Knab). Three specimens. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. IV., May 1912. UU 

