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very lai-};e, pale, irrcfiularly bordered with hlackish scales. The secondaries 

 grayish white, with the outer inai-tjin smoky brown. Underneath dirty white; 

 a dark discal spot on the prituaries and a black discal point on the secondaries; 

 a terminal row of black dots. Expanse 41 mm. 



9. — Primaries light brown, a few black scales at the base; the t. a. line fine, 

 indistinct, yellowish ; a sinMlar median line very indistinct ; the t. p. line hardlj' 

 indicated in a darker shade: a s. t. row of yellowish spots, some of them con- 

 tiguous to small clusters of black scales. The secondaries and underneath the 

 same as in the % . Expanse 46 mm. 



Hab. — Jala pa, Mexico. 



Catocala jiiaiiifa sp. nov. — Palpi light gray, with a broad brown baud. 

 Thorax and alxlonien dorsal ly gray ; abdomen laterally and underneath white. 

 Primaries above light gray; the t. a. line oblique, from the costa to below the 

 median vein, then curving inwardly to the submedian, and from there making 

 on the inner margin an outward curve; an indistinct, narrow, median shade; 

 the t. ]t. line fine, black, wavy, irregular, outwardly shaded with dark gray; a 

 siibapical black line, and a blackish shade from vein 6 to the outer margin be- 

 tween veins 3 and 4; a terminal, geminate, wavy, black line. Secondares jnire 

 white, with a fine terminal black line on the outer margin, and a few blackish 

 scales about the anal angle. Underneath white, some grayish flecks, chiefly at 

 the apex of the primaries. Expanse 62 mnc. 



Hab. — Paso de San Juan, JNIexico. 



A€AXTIIODICA gen, nov. 

 Antennse in the S fasciculate, in the 9 simple. Palpi erect, 

 second joint quadrate, long; third joint short, rounded ; both cov- 

 ered with short scales. Thorax smooth, covered with broad, flat 

 scales. Abdomen stout, conical or flattened, extending one-third 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs with short scales; in the medial spurs 

 one is very long, the other very short, and there is another spur about 

 the middle of the tibia; the tarsi very spiny; the hind tibia with 

 two pairs of spurs, the tarsi very spiny. Primaries long, narrow, 

 with the costal margin straight, the outer margin very sligiitly 

 rounded. Vein 3 nearer to 4 than to 2 ; vein 5 originating clo.<e to 

 4, but not contiguous ; vein 10 starting near the end of the cell and 

 anastamosing with 8 just bevond the origin of 7, forminor a lonjr, 

 narrow areolet. Secondaries with the costal margin straight, the 

 outer margin sinuate; veins 3, 4, 5, stalked. Underneath: the 

 disc of the primaries with long scales. 



Acaiitliodica ;;raii<li!<i sp. nov. 9- — Palpi grayish brown, streaked with 

 dark gray. Head viohiceous brown, with some darker maikings. Collar brown. 

 Thorax lilacine, speckled with dark scales. Abdomen brownish. Priuuirie.s 

 above gray, mottled with moss green ; the median space below the median vein 

 brown; the lines very fine, velvety brown, and somewhat wavy, most heavily 

 marked on the costal margin ; the basal line irregular, with a short, longitudinal, 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXI. (31) JULY, 1894. 



