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whitish line at base. Hind wings: basal half semihyaline white; outer half 

 silky fuscous, darkest towards apex. Wings below without the basal marking, 

 the hind wing with the costa to beyond middle creamy white, the marginal 

 shading narrowing to a point at anal angle. 



Expanse, 18 mm. 



Habitat. Qumgua, Guatemala. 



Type Cat. No. 25677, U. S. N. M. _ 



Related to M. ochrotalis Hampson, which has no black at base 

 of fore wing, and still more similar to Macalla mesohucalis 

 Hampson, described as a Pococera. 



Macalla pegalis, new species. 



Male. Palpi vinaceous cinnamon, first joint fringed below with white, the 

 second ioint with a lateral triangular white spot, the third joint tipped with 

 fuscous. No long process from base of antenna. Head white shaded with 

 light vinaceous cinnamon; vertex with cluster of scales reaching over collar in 

 front. Collar and thorax light pinkish cinnamon, with a rutous central spot on 

 collar. Abdomen light pinkish cinnamon with transverse dark shading above. 

 Fore wings pinkish buff shaded with pinkish cinnamon in and below cell; base 

 of inner margin darker, irrorated with black scales; a rufous shade and black 

 streak on costa about middle; a short black streak on submedian fold ante- 

 medially, and a small cluster of scales below vein 1; a medial dark line from fold 

 to inner margin with a black streak from it towards base on vein 1, closely fol- 

 lowed by a parallel line forming part of the postmedial; postmedial consisting 

 of an oblique black and rufous series of scales extending to near subterminal 

 above vein 4, incurved from the same line below vein 2; some reddish scaling at 

 end of cell below subcostal, on median towards end of cell, and on interspaces 

 from vein 2 to vein 5; a double subterminal dentate black line filled in with 

 whitish buff, slightly outcurved from costa to vein 2, then incurved and again 

 outcurved; termen shaded with purplish fuscous from vein 4 to apex, below 

 vein 4 grayish; terminal black spots almost forming a line; cilia pinkish burl" 

 with black spots. Hind wings semihyaline smoky white, darker shaded along 

 termen, broadly towards apex. Fore wings below smoky, the costa vinaceous 

 cinnamon, the inner margin broadly white; a fuscous subterminal line. Hind 

 wings below as above, the costa vinaceous cinnamon; a subterminal fuscous line 

 on costa. 



Expanse, 27 mm. 



Habitat. Cayuga, Guatemala. 

 Type Cat. No. 25679, U. S. N. M. 

 Near M. mar gin at a Schaus. 



Macalla vilstana, new species. 



Female. Palpi wood brown, irrorated in front with whitish gray. Head, 

 collar and patagia buffy olive, the thorax whitish mottled with buffy olive. 

 Abdomen mouse gray with brownish segmental lines; a fuscous dorsal tuft at 

 base, underneath buff with transverse drab lines. Fore tarsi brownish olive 

 with ochraceous rings. Fore wings isabella color irrorated with olive ochre; a 



