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Ba|»la testacea. — Vertex light brown. Body and wings yellowish white, 

 the latter with a few brownish scattered scales, a very indistinct outer line, a 

 black point in the cells, and a fine terminal brown line. Expanse 27 mm. 



Hah. — Guadalajara, Mexico. 



Deiliiiea dubitaria. —Head yellow. Body white. Wings silvery white, 

 with some faint grey striae cliiefly about the outer margins, the strite also forming 

 an indistinct straiglit outer line and wavy inner line, a fine terminal dark line. 

 Expanse 33 mm. 



Hab. —Bolivia. 



Diastictis paillensis. — Wings whitish grey, with a few pale brown 

 specks and strige. Costal margin of primaries with four dark brown spots and 

 very faint traces of inner, median and outer lines, and an interrupted dark tei'- 

 niinal line. Underneath buff. Primaries with the disk suffused with brown and 

 faint dai'k median, outer and subterminal lines. Secondaries with some outer 

 blotches of brownish scales. A terminal row of black points on both wings. Ex- 

 panse 27 mm. 



Hub.— 8ao Paulo, S. E. 



Wyrtela coaiiaria. — Vertex ochreous. Thorax and abdomen greyish 

 white. Wings white irrorated with grey scales, lines greyish brown, the median 

 line angled at costa then inwardly oblique, the outer line from costa near apex 

 to inner margin at two-thirds from base, the outer line continued on secondaries 

 to middle of inner margins ; a darker terminal line. Expanse 38 mm. 



Hab. — Coatepec, Mexico. 



Seiiiiotliisa evanaria. — Very pale huff, with the shadings slightly 

 darker. The surface of the wings thickly speckled with light brown, a narrow 

 wavy median shade, the outer line very fine, followed by a broad branching to 

 the outer margin below apex of primaries, where the excision is slight. Undei"- 

 neath yellowish, with the median and outer shades very distinct reddish brown ; 

 on secondaries a small dark brown discal spot. Expanse 32 mm. 



Hab. — Petropolis, Brazil. 



Seiniotliii^a dentilaria. — Body greyish brown. Primaries moderately 

 excised. Secondaries slightly dentate. Wings whitish, thickly speckled with 

 grey, lines reddish brown, basal and median Hues wavy, outer line finely dentate, 

 followed by a broad dark greyish shade, outer margins mottled with white, a tei-- 

 minal dark line. Underneath lighter, the lines indistinct, the shade beyond 

 outer line reddish brown. Expanse 21 mm. 



Hab. — Orizaba, Mexico. 



Seiiiiolhisa iiiayana.— Whitish, speckled with prey and black, lines 

 yellowish, with black points on veins, very fine, wavy, starting from brown spots 

 on costa, the outer line followed by a larger brown spot on costa resting on -some 

 black scales below vein 7, a geminate black spot at vein 4, the outer margin dark 

 grey. Excision below apex moderate. Underneath whitish, speckled with grey, 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXVII. FKBEUARY, 1901. 



