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margin the yellow space between the two dark lines is thickly irrorated with 

 brown scales; the lines do not reach either margin ; fringe paler green. Under- 

 neath primaries bright green ; secondaries wliitish green, with a black discal 

 line. Expanse 21 mm. 



Hab. — Sao Paulo. 



Gelasiinia nordicaria.— Wings dull olive green; black discal points; a 

 faint wavy whitish outer line, inwardly with darker green ; a terminal dark 

 line, interrupted at veins by a yellow dots; fringe greyish, spotted with brown 

 at veins; costa of primaries finely buflF, striated with dai'k brown. Expanse 

 11 mm. 



Hah. — Orizaba, Mexico. 

 Allied to G. hemithearia Warr. 



Pliriidoceutra Olivia. — Palpi laterally spotted with black ; frons brown- 

 ish; vertex white; body green. Wings dark green; abroad whitish line from 

 apex of primaries to middle of inner margin on secondaries; minute black dis- 

 cal points: fringe dark green at base, paler terminally. Underneath primaries 

 paler green; secondaries whitish green; traces of the transverse oblique line. 

 Expanse % 21 mm., 9 31 mm. 



Hab. — Castro, Parana. 



Dyspteris vecinaria. — Wings whitish, striated with green ; fringe 

 white, spotted with black at veins. Primaries: from middle of costa a dark 

 green line, angled at green discal shade, to inner margin at one-third from base ; 

 from costa near apex a dark green line, oblique to middle of inner margin, but 

 bulged between veins 3 and 5: a green subterminal shade, widest on inner mar- 

 gin. Secondaries with a dark green median line, outwardly shaded with white. 

 Underneath more whitish; the inner line on pri)uaries absent, the outer line 

 starting further away from apex. Expanse 25 mm. 



Hab. — Chiriqui. 



Allied to D. naiadaria Gn. 



Dyspteris mexicaria. — Body green. Wings bluish green ; fringe white; 

 discal spots white ; an outer white line, slightly wavy ; a distinctly wavy subter- 

 minal white shade; an inner curved white line on primaries; costa of primaries 

 very finely dark brown. Underneath primaries green ; broad white shades in 

 place of lines. Secondaries whitish, with median, outer and subterminal green 

 shades ; the base shaded with green. Expanse 30 mm. 



Hab. — Orizaba, Mexico. 

 Allied to D. abortivaria H. 8. 



ACIDALIIN/E. 



Craspedia cugia. — Wings whitish, irrorated with black and grey scales; 

 minute black discal points; an oblique brownish line beyond cell on primaries; 

 within discal spot on secondaries; a similar outer line followed by broad subter- 

 minal and terminal brown shadings; on primaries tliere is also a fine curved 



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



