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to ochre-yellow, the spots showing through in a purple shading ; discal 

 spots as above, indistinct. Legs white, fore legs and tibiae of middle 

 legs purplish in front. 



Lake Worth, Fla.; Mrs. Slosson. A very pretty insect, 



DiASTICTIS MARICOPA, n. Sp. 



Expands 26 mm. Palpi and front dull clay colour ; thorax dull 

 whitish ; abdomen dull whitish, with intermixed darker scales ; fore 

 wings dull clay colour, with three black cross lines, each much more 

 heavily marked at costa ; the basal is rounded somewhat wavy ; the 

 other two fine, rounded, and broken, the outer being emphasized into a 

 distinct and prominent black spot at vein 4 ; a marginal line of black 

 points ; hind wings rather more grayish, with black atoms, these suggest- 

 ing two cross lines near the middle. Beneath nearly as above in colour, 

 the lines faintly showing on all wings. 



Arizona. 



DiASTICTIS FLORIDENSIS, n. sp. 



Expands 22 mm. Palpi fuscous orange-ochre, front orange-ochre; 

 thorax fuscous ochre, with blackish scales intermixed, the end of the 

 abdomen becoming more orange-ochre ; fore wings fuscous, with an 

 ochre tinge, squamose with fuscous points, a faint rounded outer line of 

 darker fuscous, and a faint small spot in outer space on vein 4; hind 

 wings bright orange-ochre, ochre along inner margin, with scattered 

 fuscous striations, showing into a faint median line and an outer line of 

 fuscous spots ; discal spots on all wings blackish ; beneath, all wings 

 bright orange-ochre, the lines and spots showing as above and somewhat 

 more clearly. 



South Florida, from Mr. Rautenberg. I have the 9 only, and the 

 generic reference is provisional and doubtful. 



DiASTICTIS OLIVALIS n. sp. 



Expands 25 mm. Palpi heavy, drooping, fuscous ochre; front 

 fuscous ochre ; thorax olivaceous fuscous ochre ; abdomen fuscous ochre. 

 Fore wings smooth, even olivaceous fuscous, dark fuscous narrowly along 

 costa and forming outwardly a marginal line ; discal spots and lines 

 obsolete and unsuggested. Hind wings light fuscous, with fuscous 

 striations, making them approach the colour of the fore wings, but with 

 scarcely an olivaceous tinge. Beneath fuscous with a violet tinge, costa 

 and veins slightly ochreous ; hind wings squamose ochre fuscous. 



Without locality, in U. S. National Collection, type No. 3957. 



[to be continued.] 



