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may add my appreciation of her charming personality, of her high stand- 

 ing as an author in the Hterary world, and of her very large generosity in 

 favours which are personal to myself 

 Slossonia rubrotincta, n. sp. 



Expands 30 mm. Palpi bright ochreous, tinged on sides by reddish- 

 purple ; front ochreous ; antennae ochreous, tinged at base above with 

 reddish-purple ; thorax and abdomen light clear ochre. Fore wings 

 broad, angled on outer margin at vein 4, clear light ochre with purple- 

 red stain at base, on costa, and two purple-red costal stains marking the 

 beginning of otherwise obsolete cross lines ; apex more yellow. Hind 

 wings angulate at vein 4, broad, light clear ochre ; discal spots and 

 marginal lines obsolete. Beneath in colour as above, the hind wings 

 sparsely dotted in the blackish scales, thickening to a diffuse black spot 

 along inner margin. All legs ochre, stained especially on tibiae with 

 purple-red. 



Los Angeles Co., Cal. ; taken in July; type in National Museum, 

 No, 3943. 



Slossonia latipennis, n. sp. 



Expands ^^ mm. Palpi long, slender, ochreous, tipped with black ; 

 front ochre ; thorax yellowish ; abdomen ochre-white ; fore wings broad, 

 even, rounded, ochreous, stained with yellow at base, a faint edging 

 of blackish basally on costa, and a faint indication of a straight 

 oblique whitish line beginning at costa close to apex. Hind wings 

 ochreous, a little yellow stained on middle portion, with a faint, somewhat 

 rounded line as on fore wings ; discal spots fine, jet black ; all wings 

 very broad, the hind wings with especially long inner margin and distinct 

 posterior angle. Beneath all wings light ochreous, the fore wings some- 

 what yellow at base and apex, discal spots black, some black scales on 

 hind wings between discal spot and inner margin ; legs as far as seen 

 whitish-ochreous, with tibiae stained with black. 



Cocoanut Grove, S. Fla. Type in National Museum, No. 3956. 



Synaxis fuscata, n. sp. 



Expands 48 mm. Palpi dark fuscous ; front whitish ; thorax ochre- 

 ous fuscous ; abdomen fuscous ; fore wings dirty fuscous, between the 

 cross lines darker, forming a cross band ; discal spots black ; hind wings 

 fuscous except along fore margin ; cross line broad, not strongly marked, 

 reaching from inner margin half across wings, discal spots black. 



