146 HETEROCERA. 
5. Ethmia heptasticta, sp. n. (Tab. V. fig. 8.) _ 
Antennae brownish fuscous, glaucous toward the base ; the basal joint brownish fuscous above. | Palpr white, 
with two black bars across the median joint, and black annulations on the terminal. Head yellowish 
white. Thorax white, with seven black spots, two anterior, one median, and four behind the middle in 
two lateral pairs; tegulae white, with a dark brownish fuscous spot at the base. Forewings broad, with 
the costa rounded, apex obtusely depressed, termen oblique; dark brownish fuscous above the fold, 
white with some smoky suffusion beneath it; the dark colour projects across the fold in two places, at 
about the middle of the wing, and at about one-fourth from the base, while between and below these 
projections is a rounded spot of the same colour, nearer to the inner than to the outer ; the white 
ground-colour throws a projection into the dark suffusion near the outer end of the fold, reaching as high — 
as vein 5 at the end of the cell, and there is a good deal of admixture of white scales along the termen 
and before the apex, also more slightly along the costa ; around the apex and termen is a series of seven 
or eight distinct black marginal spots at the base of the white cilia, which are clouded on their outer 
half with brownish fuscous. wp. al. 24 mm. Hindwings rather dark yellowish brown ; cilia pale 
yellowish brown. Abdomen brownish ochreous, the basal segment pale ochreous, the terminal segment 
rich orange-ochreous. Legs whitish, banded and sprinkled with brownish fuscous. 
Type 2 (65958) Mus, W1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. Mexico: euerrero: Tonalapa, VI. (H. H. Smith). Unique. 
Allied to 5903 marmorea Wlsm., but with broader and darker wings, the hindwings 
especially being much more deeply coloured. | 
6. Ethmia penthica, sp. n. (Tab. V. fig. 9.) 
Antennae smoky brown. Palpi with the median joint smoky brown, the terminal white, with two dark 
brown bands, one before the middle, the other before the apex. Head dirty whitish. Thorax dull white. 
Forewings smoky brown, the dorsal third white, throwing an obtusely flattened projection upward, before 
the middle, above a small brown spot, and an angulated projection upward beyond the middle; there 
are a few white scales at the apex ; cilia corresponding in colour to the adjacent wing-surface. Hxp. al. 
17mm. AHindwings brown; cilia scarcely paler. Abdomen brownish fuscous; anal tuft ochreous. Legs 
dull brownish cinereous. 
Type & (5857 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. 
Hab. Mexico: oaxaca: Oaxaca (W. Schaus). Unique. 
7. Ethmia miilleri, Busck. (‘Tab. V. fig. 10.) 
Ethmia mulleri Busck Pr. Wash. Ent, Soc. 11 212 (1910) *. 
Type & (12810) US. Nat. Mus. [CT7. (33829) Mus. Wism. BM.] 
Hab. Mexico’: puesta: Tehuacan, VII, IX. (R. Miiller)': Guerrero: Chilpan- 
cingo, 4600 ft., VI. (HZ. H. Smith). | 
The specimen figured (65957, Chilpancingo) is somewhat faded, and the darkened 
costal area is consequently not so strongly contrasted with the white ground-colour as 
in fresher specimens. 
8. Ethmia perpulera, sp. n. (Tab. V. fig. 14.) 
Antennae white, barred with black above beyond the middle. Palpi white, thickly dusted with black on 
their outer sides. Head white. Thorax white, with two pairs of very dark bottle-green spots. Fore- 
wings white, with many dark bottle-green spots, some confluent or streaky ; a quadrate patch of violet- 
