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lateral row of small black spots. Legs black, the tips of the mid and 

 hind tibia; and the basal hind tarsal joints marked with white. Fore 

 \\ -ing nearly entirely black : small angular white spots at the base, on 

 suhmcclian interspace at middle of cell, a narrow mark arising from 

 inner margin at outer third, forked above, two spots on the costal edge 

 beyond the middle, two on the outer margin, the upper containing two 

 round terminal dots, the lower one spot or none, a speck at the tor- 

 nus. Hind wing black, some white in the fringe only below vein 3. 

 Expanse, 37 mm. 



Female. Thorax as in the male, but the black spots much smaller, 

 that on the patagia divided into two. Abdomen continuously black 

 dorsally, the venter also black in the middle. \Yings white, the veins 

 ocherous where they cut the black markings ; these consist of two 

 dots near the base, followed by an angled row of four spots subbasally, 

 next three spots obliquely below median vein, next a band from costa 

 to inner margin, cut by ocherous veins, strongly angled in the middle 

 and touching the origin of vein 3 ; five minute dots at the end of the cell, 

 next a band of narrow spots between the veins, excurved over the 

 discal venules, the spots between veins 3 to 5 much attenuated ; next a 

 subterminal band, cut by ocherous veins above vein 2, broken into 

 spots at veins 3 to 5, where it is much narrowed; a terminal row of 

 irregular spots and spots in the fringe at apex and veins 3 to 5. Hind 

 wing with a row of spots across the cell, on each side of the distal 

 cross-vein, an outer band, cut by ocherous veins and narrowed at veins 

 3 to 5 ; a row of terminal spots above vein 3. Expanse, 47 mm. 



Four males and one female, Mexico City, Mexico, July, 

 August, and September, 1908, from Mr. R. Muller. 

 Type No. 12216, U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 Allied to Ecpantheria atra Oberthur. 



Pygarctia pterygostigma, new species. 



Mead gray, narrowly pink in the nape. Thorax gray. Abdomen 

 crimson above with a row of dorsal spots ; venter gray. Wings gray, 

 a large yellowish-white mark at the end of the cell of the fore wing. 

 Legs gray, the fore coxae pink within. Expanse, 28 mm. 



Two females, Tehuacan, Mexico, September, 1908, from Mr. 

 R. Muller. 



Type No. 12217, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Family NOCTUID.1C. 

 Centrartha requies, new species. 



Head dark brown, the short palpi paler brown. Thorax, basal and 

 terminal spaces of fore wing and an angular discal mark creamy 



