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clasper of curema is materially broader than in metata, and instead 

 of terminating- in a slender, rounded tip, it broadens and becomes 

 more spatulate in character ; the left clasper in curema is both longer 

 and broader and the tip is not drawn out to a point. In the female 

 curema the lobes of the anal plates are decidedly smaller and differ- 

 ent in outline, while the left lobe is the larger, instead of the right, as 

 in mctata. The opening to the copulatory pouch is in approximately 

 the same location, and in general the appearance of the structure is 

 very similar. 



Considering all the differential features, structural as well as super- 

 ficial, I have concluded it best to consider that we have a distinct 

 species to deal with. 



PH-ffiOCYMA HELATA, new species. 



Ground color dull smoky brown. Head and thorax more or less 

 powdered with gray scales, forming no distinct markings. Abdomi- 

 nal tufts prominent. Primaries obscured by irregularly disposed 

 brown shadings. Basal area darker. Basal line black, diffuse. T. 

 a. line black, inwardly diffuse and margined by a brown shading; 

 acutely toothed on the subcostal and with an obtuse or rounded out- 

 ward angulation just above the submedian. At the center of the 

 wing begins a series of three or four more or less obvious, somewhat 

 diffuse transverse lines that darken the outer portion of the median 

 spnce. The brown, punctiform orbicular is present in most examples. 

 Reniform lunate, blackish, conspicuous. T. p. line distinct in all 

 specimens, black, narrow, complete, outwardly bent over cell and 

 strongly indented toward the middle of the reniform, the outward 

 angles rounded: incurved below cell and only a little irregular. S. t. 

 line obvious throughout its course, distinct and black only from vein 

 4 to the inner margin. There is a little outward tooth on veins 3 and 

 I. and between these- veins a blackish shade extends to the outer 

 margin. The space between t. p. and s. t. lines is irregular and is 

 darker tilled, most distinctly so on the costal area, giving the ap- 

 pearance of an irregular band. The terminal area is strigillate and 

 more or less powdered with gray scales in both sexes. In the male 

 there is a conspicuous white blotch at the anal angle. Secondaries 

 dull, fuscous brown to the extra-median black line, which is promi- 

 nent at anal angle but does not reach the costa. This line is out- 

 wardly edged by a gray line and by some gray powderings which 

 become more conspicuous toward the anal angle; inwardly the line 

 is edged by a brown shade, which may merge into the ground or may 

 be limited by a brown line for part of its course, so as to form a dis- 

 tinct band part way across the wing. Beneath yellow brown, more 

 or le^-s powdery, all wings with a discal spot; primaries with an 

 extra-median, secondaries with basal and extra-median transverse 



