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Desmia girtealis, new species. 



Male. Antennae shortly ciliate. Palpi fuscous brown, at base white; 

 third joint white; head and thorax fuscous brown. Collar and patagia 

 silky gray brown. Abdomen above purplish, underneath ochreous white; 

 legs brown; tarsi ochreous white with broad, light brown rings. Wings 

 cupreous brown, the spots opalescent white; cilia brown crossed by a black 

 line, tipped with white at tornus of fore wing, and with white on hind wing 

 except at anal angle. Fore wings: a quadrate spot across cell and a narrower 

 adjoining spot below cell to submedian; the spot beyond cell larger, its inner 

 edge incurved, from vein 8 to vein 3 where it ends in a point. Hind wings: 

 a spot contiguous to discocellular from vein 6 to vein 5. 



Expanse, 23 mm. 



Habitat. Peru. 



Type. Cat. No. 23537, U. S. N. M. 



Desmia repandalis, new species. 



Mule. Antennae minutely serrate. Palpi dark grayish brown fringed 

 with white at base. Body above dark grayish brown; segmental white lines 

 on abdomen; abdomen underneath w-hite. Legs brown; tarsi mostly white. 

 Wings fuscous brown tinged with purple; cilia with a fine pale line at base. 

 Fore wings: spots white only faintly opalescent; medial spot oval from sub- 

 costal to submedian; postmedial spot from vein 8 to vein 3, expanding slightly 

 between veins 5 and 4, becoming narrower below vein 4. Hind wings: a 

 medial line widest on costa narrowing to a point above anal angle. 



Expanse, 27 mm. 



Habitat. Chejel, Guatemala. 

 Type. Cat. No. 23538, U. S. N. M. 



This species appears abundant in Central and South America, 

 and I have taken it in Cuba. There is considerable variation 

 in the medial spot of fore wing, but the average specimen is like 

 the type described. In general appearance it is like Desmia 

 Vulcanalis Felder = Z}. geminalis Snellen but the simple antennae 

 will differentiate the two species. The female, at present un- 

 known, is possibly like the female of \ 'ulcanalis, which is remark- 

 ably like the female of Desmia tages Cramer. 



Lamprosema noctalis, new species. 



Male. Palpi dark grayish brown fringed with white. Head, collar, and 

 thorax dull purplish brown. Abdomen brown with white segmental liins 

 at end; anal hairs purplish brown. Body below silvery white, the legs gray- 

 ish, the tarsi ochreous white. Fore wings reddish brown; antemeditil line 

 lilacine white, outwardly dark edged, vertical and sinumiv; a transverse 



