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row dark brown shade; postmedial and suhterminal dark brown spots on 

 interspaces; terminal line and cilia as on fore wing. Fore wings below pale 

 ochreous brown, the inner margin whitish; spots as ..above; a postmedial 

 series of dark points on veins; subterminal angled spots across veins; a fine 

 terminal brown line. Hind wings below pale ochreous brown shaded with 

 white; postmedial clusters of brown scales on interspaces; similar subterminal 

 clusters on veins. 

 Expanse, 22 mm. 



Habitat. Baracoa, Cuba. 



Type. Cat. No. 23545, U. S. N. M. 



Sylepta escuintlalis, new species. 



Female. Palpi fuscous brown. Head fuscous; a white shade on frons; 

 a white spot on vertex. Collar, thorax, and abdomen above yellow; under- 

 neath white. Legs yellow streaked with brown; tarsi brown. Wings yel- 

 low with semihyaline streaks below cell and on interspaces between veins. 

 Fore wings with the costa black from base to beyond middle. 



Expanse, 39 mm. 



Habitat. Escuintla, Guatemala. 



Type. Cat. No. 23546, U. S. N. M. 



Sylepta birdalis, new species. 



Female. Palpi grayish brown fringed with white t base. Head, collar, 

 and thorax yellowish ochre shaded with purplish brown. Abdomen yel- 

 lowish ochre at base, otherwise brownish. Wings thinly scaled, pale yellow. 

 Fore wings: costal and inner margins to postmedial line ochreous yellow; 

 a dark costal spot at base, and a subbasal dark point on inner margin ; traces- 

 of an outbent antemedial smoky line from subcostal, followed in cell by a 

 small double spot; a lilacine line on discocellular edged by fuscous lines; 

 postmedial line fuscous, inbent from costa to vein o, then outcurved and in- 

 bent to vein 2 where it is upbent towards discocellular angled and downbent 

 to inner margin; terminal space beyond this line lilacine brown; cilia with a 

 fuscous line at base. Hind wings: a smoky line on discocellular; postmedial 

 line fine, outbent at vein 5 and forming three lunules to vein 2 where it is 

 upbent, then angled and straight to inner margin ; a lilacine brown shade at 

 apex. Underneath similar. 



Expanse, 31 mm. 



Habitat. Aroa, Venezuela. 

 Type. Cat. No. 23547, U. S. N. M. 

 Near 5. poctololis Guenee. 



Polygrammodes supremalis, iu-w specie^. 



Female. Palpi brown above, white below. Head yellow brown. Collar 

 and thorax fuscous brown shot with iridescent bluish steel color. Abdomen 



