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Diantlioccia palilis, n. s. 



,5 $ . — Tliis is a piik' ycllow-fjray species with something of the tone of 

 insolcns. The niah' lias tlie hind wings ))ure white, inimacuLite, the female 

 fuscous. The orilinary lines are approximate ; the inner line of the t. p. line 

 fine, black, regularly waved, in the female the line is not defined. The median 

 space is narrowed inferiorly. Both sexes show the median shade as a distinct 

 black ill-defined shade spreading to a blotch on the cell between the obsoletely 

 ringed stigmata ; there is a more yellowish shade on the median space inferior- 

 ly. Subterniinal line obsolete or indicated l)y a fuscous blotching. The female 

 primary is darker than the nuile. Head, tliorax and abdomen above concolor- 

 ous with the ground color of the wings. Pai])i black at the sides. Feet dotted 

 black and pale, else the vestiture is pale on the legs and body. Eyes hairy ; 

 oviduct feeblv exserted. 



Expanse, 28 m. in. Hah., Te.vus (Belfnigc). 



Mamestra luarinitincta, n. s. 



$ . — This small species has the tliorax and fore wings entirely of a delicate 

 greenish gray. The sides of the tegulae are black. The narrow palpi are 

 black laterally. The median lines are black, very approximate inferiorly 

 and the small black outlined claviform nearly spans the median space. 

 The median space is more brown or blackish than the rest of the wing. 

 The t. p. line is regularly scolloped ; the t. a. line is convex, nearly even, 

 well marked. The orbicular is rounded, small, black-ringed, concolorous. 

 The reniform is empty, veiy little constricted, of the pale greenish color 

 of the wing which obtains over the costal region of the median space. Sub- 

 terminal line obsolete. Hind wings blackish fuscous, paler at base, with 

 whitish interlined fringes and traces of an outer line more apparent beneath 

 where they are whitish, irrorate on costal region and show a distinct discal 

 dot. Fore wings beneath blackish, except along internal margin where they 

 are whitish. Tibiae and tarsi black and gray marked ; eyes hairy. 



Exjmnse, 25 m. m. Hah., Te.Ktis (Belfrage, November). 



Ilumohadeua atricollarls, n. s. 



A small species very similar to hadistrign, differing by the shaded black 

 streak from the base outwardly to the exterior margin being apparently sin- 

 gle, there being no distinct submedial basal and cellular streaks as in hadistriga. 

 The course of the median line is the same. The black shade includes a white 

 cellular .spot near the t. p. line. This latter is a little more uneven than in 

 its ally. The collar is not pale but marked with deep black at the base, nar- 



BUL. BUF. SOC. N.\T. SCI. (.35) FKBRUAUT, 1873. 



