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Hypliedyle cascaria. — Primaries: costa and outer margin greyish, 

 otherwise pale hrown, with darlver in-own striae, except at apex, and a submargi- 

 nal spot above vein 2; the apical clear space preceded by a triangular white spot 

 on costa, which is inwardly shaded with dark greyish, dividing into two indis- 

 tinct lines, one going towards outer margin, and the other crossing the end of 

 cell ; a small white spot below the triangular white spot. Secondaries pale brown, 

 shaded with grey on inner margin, and irrorated with darker scales on inner 

 margin and about the anal angle. Expanse 42 mm. 



^a6. — Jalapa, Mexico. 



Two specimens from Aroa, Venezuela, are more greyish in tones. 



Hyphedyle paularia.— Primaries grey, crossed by blackish striae; a 

 broader streak at end of cell from costa to vein 3; a large apical buff spot, in- 

 wardly limited by a dark line, and shaded below with reddish brown ; a reddish 

 brown space above inner angle; three subterminal brown spots; a dark brown 

 terminal line. Secondaries white, irrorated with black along the inner margin ; 

 a broad dark marginal shade interrupted before apex. Underneath primaries 

 brownish, with apical spot as above. Secondaries greyish brown, with darker 

 strise and two black submarginal spots. Expanse 35 mm. 



Hab.—Sao Paulo, S. E. Brazil. 



Hyphedyle albida.— Upper side white: on costa at base some black 

 striffi. Underneath white, a black spot and strige at base of costa, and minute 

 apical points on primaries; on secondaries some fine strige on costa, and two black 

 points near inner margin. Expanse 33 mm. 

 Hub. — Rio Janeiro. 



Ergavia drucei. 



I o-ive tlie name of drucei to the 9 of Ergavia calvina Druce. 

 Biol. Cent. Araer. Het., vol. ii, p. 79. Taf. 48, fig. 22. 



Ergavia calvina belongs to the genus Alinodes, and is positively 

 the same as A. terraria Dn. The 9 described and figured by 

 Druce belongs to a distinct species in which the sexes are similar. 

 The shaft of the male antennae is thick with moderate, hairy pecti- 

 nations, and belongs possibly to a new genus. According to War- 

 ren the genus Ergavia Wlk. is cogeneric with Polysema Gn. 



Ergavia obliterata.— Wings brown, without the distinct black lines 

 presei" in the other species, and finely striated with dark brown. Primaries 

 with a blackish discal spot and outer wavy dark shade; some dark subterminal 

 spots, preceded by black points on veins; terminal black intervenal points. Sec- 

 ondaries with three blackish median bands; a subterminal row of black spots 

 and terminal intervenal black points. Underneath greyish roseate, irrorated 

 with black; an outer row of black points; black subterminal marks on prima- 

 ries at inner angle and between veins 4 and 6. Expanse 51 mm. 



Hah. — Peru. 



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



