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Tongue undeveloped. Eyes large, naked. Front with roughened tuber- 

 cular prominence, angular in outline. Tibia? rather densely hairy, with- 

 out spines. Thoracic vestiture hairy, prothorax slightly crested, meta- 

 thorax with thick divided crest; abdomen with small crest at base. Fore 

 wing with vein 9 from 10, anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 7 from 

 near end of areole. Hind wing with vein 5 strong, from well below middle 

 of discocellulars. Retinaculum of male broad, not bar-shaped. 



Said, to be near Diparopsis Hampson, which has vein 5 of 

 the hint! wing weak and arising near middle of discocellulars, 

 according to Hampson's description and figure. In the 

 present form vein 5 seems scarcely at all weaker than the 

 other veins. 

 Sacadodes pyralis, new species. 



Fore wing clayey ocherous to purplish brown; basal and subterminal 

 spaces darker, olivaceous brown; a narrow dark discal mark; lines lighter, 

 the inner edging the basal dark area, angled below median vein; outer 

 slightly curved, with a narrow dark inner edging; subterminal line straight, 

 near and similar to the outer line. Hind wing whitish in the male, purplish 

 brown in the female. Expanse, 30 mm. 



Two males, one female, Trinidad, British West Indies, bred 

 from the "pink cotton-boll worm" (P. L. Guppy). 



Tybe: No. 15113, U. S. National Museum. 



Both in markings and structure much like Diparopsis, cas- 

 tanea Hampson, which is destructive to cotton in South Africa. 



The larva is cylindrical, robust, the segmental incisures 

 strong. Head moderate, its vertex within joint 2. Cervical 

 shield and anal plate well chitinized. Skin smooth; tuber- 

 cles and setie small, normal. Abdominal legs equally devel- 

 oped. The mature alcoholic specimen is colorless; a smaller 

 one is marked with pink in dorsal and stigmata! bands, row 

 of oblique subdorsal dashes and narrow subventral line. 



Mr. Schaus kindly examined a specimen and consulted with 

 Mr. Paul Dognin and Sir G. F. Hampson. Mr. Dognin has 

 specimens of the species from Argentina and the one that Mr. 

 Schaus examined was from Venezuela. The distribution of the 

 species is therefore extensive. 



The new name was communicated to me by Mr. Schaus, 

 having been suggested, I understand, by Sir G. F. Hampson. 



