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fringe, legs otherwise smootli. Body slender. Fore wings: Costa 

 straight, arched at apex; termen slightly inbent to vein 4, then 

 sharply inbent and forming a triangular lobe at middle of inner mar- 

 gin; vein 2 from near end of cell, downbent to lobe; 3, 4, 5 from 

 lower angle; 6 and 7 apart; 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 free; the costa 

 below with long down turned fringe of spatulate scales; a tuft of 

 erect bristly hairs at vein 2 close to cell. Hind wings broad; costa 

 straight ; apex rounded ; veins 3 and 4 and 6 and 7 shortly stalked ; 



5 well above lower angle. 



Type of genus. — Alogonia perissalis Schaus. 



ALOGONIA PERISSALIS, new species. 



Male. — Body and fore wings brown, the latter becoming darker 

 towards lobe, which is also irrorated with some lilacine scales; lines 

 darker brown; a fine antemedial line, medial shade, and post medial 

 line, nearly vertical; a wavy outer line, more oblique, followed by a 

 broad fuscous brown shade; orbicular and reniform small, yellow. 

 Hind wings silvery white; the inner margin and termen to vein 6 

 fuscous brown. Fore wings below white, the costa and apex nar- 

 rowly brown; the hairs on vein 2 black. Hind wings below mottled 

 white and grayish brown; a dark postmedial line; a pale outer line 

 defined by darker shadings. 



Expanse. — 26 mm. 



Habitat. — Geldersland, Surinam; Montserrat, Trinidad. 



Type.— Cat. No. 19710, U.S.N.M. 



DIPLODIRA, new genus. 



Male. — Antennae with paired cilia and longer single cilia; a tuft of 

 long hairs at one-third from base. Palpi curved back over head to 

 middle of thorax; second joint thickly fringed in front, and with long 

 tuft behind; third joint about one-third the length of second, mod- 

 erately scaled. Fore tibiae with long narrow process; mid and hind 

 legs smooth. Wings broad. Fore wings: Apex acute, subfalcate; 

 outer margin slightly angled at vein 4; a down turned ridge of 

 hairs medially on costa and an upturned ridge above median vein, 

 not reaching base; vein 3 before lower angle of cell; 4 from lower 

 angle; 5 slightly above; 6 from near upper angle; 7 from upper 

 angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked from cell; 11 free. Hind wings: Outer 

 margin well rounded; veins 3 and 4 from lower angle; 5 well above; 



6 from upper angle. 



Type of genus. — Diplodira jamaicalis Schaus. 



DIPLODIRA JAMAICALIS, new species. 



2fale. — Palpi dark brown at base becoming paler at end of 2d 

 joint; 3d joint fuscous tipped with ochreous brown. Body light 

 brown, the thorax dark shaded in front; also the abdomen beyond 



