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red, on the middle of the dorsum, reaching more than half-way across the cell, and broken by an obliquely 
transverse ziczac line of narrowly connected white spots running through it; a bright golden orange 
patch extends over the apex and termen, narrowly stained with violet-red on its inner edge which is 
excavate above the middle, the excavation partly occupied by a nearly isolated violet-red spot; the dark 
green spots form a series of broken irregular costal streaks before the middle, where two touch the upper 
edge of the red dorsal patch; these are followed by a single costal spot, and further by a group of spots 
or streaks, bronzy brown at their base on the extreme margin, as are also some of those which precede 
them, and produced to form a confused letter-like pattern beyond the end of the cell; cilia white, tipped 
with steel-grey at the apex. Evp.al.27 mm. Hindwings shining, steely whitish toward the base, 
becoming gradually suffused outward with pale golden brownish; a pale golden line along the termen 
at the base of the white cilia. Abdomen smoky greyish fuscous, brownish grey at the base; anal tuft 
ochreous. Legs white, barred with smoky fuscous. 
Type 2 (5856 Wism. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. 
Hab. Mexico: VERA cruz: Orizaba (W. Schaus). Unique. 
9. Ethmia phylacis, sp. n. (Tab. V. fig. 12.) 
Antennae black toward the base, fading to chestnut-brown and brownish grey outwardly; speckled with white 
above on their basal half. Palpi evenly and closely clothed throughout; brownish grey, blackish at the 
base externally. Head white. Thoraw white, with a chestnut spot posteriorly, and a blackish band 
across the tegulae. Forewings creamy white, with greenish black mottling at the base on the costal half, 
somewhat mixed with chestnut-brown at its outer edge, a single dark green spot occurring below the fold; 
the costa beyond the middle is tinged with grey-brown, the same colour being diffused downward along 
the edges of a broad reddish chestnut median band, crossing the wing and somewhat dilated to the 
dorsum, showing on its surface several bluish white flecks; the apex is reddish chestnut, also flecked 
with blue-white, and becoming golden orange along the termen to the dorsum ; the anterior edge of the 
apical patch is stained with brownish grey, a spot of the same lying between it and the median band, 
scarcely below the middle; cilia brownish, fading to white at the tornus. Hwp.al.23 mm. Hindwings 
pale purplish grey, tinged with golden yellow around the apex and termen including the cilia, which 
fade to yellowish white about the flexus. Abdomen grey-brown above and beneath, broadly white along 
the sides; anal segments yellowish. 
Type 2 (65960) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. Mexico: puraNco: Presidio (A. Forrer). Unique. 
This species differs from exornata Z., in the greater concentration of the greenish 
mottling at the base, in the single spot below the fold, instead of a pair, and in the 
form of the median band, which in exornata does not reach the costa; it differs also 
in the limitation of the golden orange to the lower portion of the termen—in exornata 
this is continued around the apex; the palpi also are less smooth and less white. 
10. Ethmia terpnota, sp. n. (Tab. V. fig. 11.) 
Antennae fuscous. Palpi reaching to the level of the vertex; fuscous, the terminal joint slightly sprinkled 
with whitish. Head white above, face dark steel-blue. Zhorax white, mixed with brownish grey, a 
dark steel-blue spot posteriorly, and one on the base of the tegulae. Forewings white, suffused with 
smoky brownish grey along the costa, more widely along the middle where this shade touches the upper 
edge of a bright copper-coloured, quadrate, mediodorsal patch, of which the upper angle, at its inner 
extremity, is, obliquely cut off ; this patch contains a slender ziczac line and some sparse sprinkling of 
white scales ; adjacent to the base, above the fold, are several, more or less confluent, obscure spots of 
dark steel-blue, fading into the costal shade, a single detached spot lying below the fold ; a few similar 
dark spots form a short parallel line preceding the apex and termen, where the grey cilia are stained 
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