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median yellow stripe which margins, below the median vein, outwardly, a 

 broad subterminal plumbeous black band, running obliquely to costa 

 before the apex and edged outwardly with a yellowish stain. Terminal 

 space cut by a blackish line. In one specimen the plumbeous band is 

 obsolete and there is nothing on the yellowish white primaries but the 

 perpendicular yellow median stripe, narrowly edged with blackish below 

 median vein, the rounded discal blackish reniform (which in the type is 

 included in the plumbeous color and faintly edged with white) and some 

 yellow apical shadings. Fringes white. Hind wings silvery white with 

 fuscous terminal shade widening at apices. Beneath fore wings fuscous, 

 whitish along costa and internal margin ; hind wings white with the costa 

 sometimes a little touched with fuscous and external margin obsoletely 

 lined. Expanse 21 m. m. Texas, Mr. Belfrage, No. 112. Bastrop Co., 

 Mr. Meske. 



It has perhaps been confounded with aetata. Cretata is milk white ; 

 binocula yellow white, and the coloration of fore wings beneath gives 

 distinguishing characters. The rounded reniform is a noticeable char- 

 acter and allies the moth to candefacta, than which it is a stouter species. 



Spragaeia guttata, n. s. 



Allied to dama and leo, but strongly differing in the detail of the mark- 

 ings. The fringes are orange, touched with black at internal angle 

 opposite the cell (as in dama) and at apices. The wing is broken up 

 into sulphur yellow spots by the black lines and ground color. An 

 orange median fascia extends upwardly to the disc before the yellow, 

 black-circled, round reniform, and extends to apices beyond the spot. 

 Internal margin touched with orange at base. Collar and tegulae 

 orange ; disc of the thorax yellow, marked out by black inner lines to 

 the patagia and with two plumbeous spots. Hind wings blackish ; abdo- 

 men zoned with pale yellow, beneath whitish with orange tip. Beneath 

 the wings are blackish with faint lines ; on primaries the orange fringes 

 are marked with black as on upper surface. Expanse 16 m. m. Bastrop 

 Co., Texas, Mr. Meske. 



Spragueia fasciatel/a, n. s. 



Allied to tortrichia Zeller, and similarly sized, differing by the dull 

 ochreous or paler color of the narrow fore wings, which have black 

 fringes, and by the t. p. line being visible and preceded by a shade of a 

 deeper tint than the ground color ; the s. t. line is also preceded by a 



