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liglit canniiu' icd, anal tuft yellow; tihac red. Prinuirios lijrlit ln'own dial), 

 a])i)roacliing a dusky yellow, t. a. line, siiig'lc, convex outwardly, most anj^u- 

 late at cell, almost obliterated on Inl'erior margin, .s])uce between the t. a. line 

 and the thorax filled with carmine ; t. j). line, concave above, cf)nvex below, 

 even on the costa ; carmine slniding in the subterniinal space, an ill-defined 

 median sliade ; terminal line black, fringes whitish. Keniform, oval, inwardly 

 oblique, orbicular absent. Beneath, carmine red, apex and costa white, basal 

 streak black ; orbicular spot a black dot, a white line uniting it with the 

 sub{|ua(lrate r<Miif()rm spot, subterminal and terminal spaces blackish, hardly 

 obscuring the carmine, inferior marginal region white. The secondaries are of 

 a bright crimson color, a broad black margin not extended quite to anal angle, 

 fringes white except at anal angle, where they are concolorous. Beneath, 

 concolorous, the black band only obtaining at internal angle, a shade darker 

 on the disc, fringes concolorous. 



Expanse, 18 in. m. Ildb., Texas (Belfrage). 



This species is allied to Spraguei and PacJcardi, differing by the 

 crimson hind wings and the absence of the discal spot. 



Aeopa, n. g. 



The eyes are naked; the tibiae all unarmed. The body is linear and narrow, 

 the vestiture rather rough, flattened scales and hair ; there is a dense bunched 

 tuft of scales on the thorax behind. The male antennae are brush-like. The 

 wings are elongate, costal edge depressed, widening outwardly. The habitus 

 and markings recall Lygranthoecia marginata, and the genus is allied to the 

 Heliothidae rather than to Iladcna. 



Aoopa carina; n. s. 



5 $ . — Olivaceous blackish, the fenuile is paler. The basal half -line is 

 dentate, the extra basal space along the lines washed with white. Median 

 lines dark, the t. a. flexuous, the t. p. minutely rivulous, edged with white 

 outwardly; the lines approximate inferiorly. Reniform obsoletely indicated, 

 upright, broader at base, black shaded, with a black annulus ; orbicular want- 

 ing. Subterminal line absent. A white inner terminal shading to the lilack 

 marginal line. Hind wings wholly blackish. Beneath both wings blackish, 

 immaculate. Abdomen feebly annulate with ]>ale. 



Expanse, 23 ni. m. Ilab., Texas (Belfrage). 



