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gin; postmedial line short, outwardly pale shaded; a fine sub ter- 

 minal white line; a termmal thick, black-brown hne, inwardly partly 

 edged with yellowish. Fore wings below: inner margin broadly whit- 

 ish; a dark streak through ccU, and apex fuscous brown; termen 

 and costa postmedially yellowish; brown shading defining a wavy 

 subtermmal line. Hind wings below irrorated with brown, thickly 

 on costa; termen broadly fuscous brown crossed by a fine sub- 

 terminal white line; a dark spot on discoceUular and a postmedial 

 line. 



Expanse. — 21 mm. 



Uahitat. — Jalapa, Mexico. 



Type.— Cat. No. 19730, U.S.N.M. 



The female is larger and very similar to the male; the terminal 

 brown shade on fore wing is usually much reduced. This species has 

 usually been confounded with P. spectalis Guenee. 



It may possibly be Paltliis insignalis Walker, described from an 

 unknown locality, and which is placed in the British Museum collec- 

 tion as a synonym of P. spectalis Guenee. I doubt whether we know 

 the true spectalis. Guenee's description does not agree with the 

 figure on plate 9, No. 1. 



PALTHIS MISANTLALIS, new species. 



Male. — Body and fore wings fuscous gray. Fore wings: A very 

 faint trace of a medial black shade; reniform inbent, velvety black- 

 brown, crossed by a pale brown line; a whitish line from cell across 

 reniform to near termen ; postmedial line, well beyond reniform, fine, 

 whitish, outcurved, almost angled opposite cell, then inbent to inner 

 margin; sub terminal fine, whitish, outcurved from costa, not touch- 

 ing termen; apex and termen to vein 5 fuscous brown, as in P. hlzialis 

 Walker; cilia fuscous gray, with a pale line at base. Hind wings 

 whitish, Rufi'used with fuscous gray, forming a distinct postmedial 

 fine and subtermmal shade, outwardly cut by a pale Ime; the termen 

 darkest between veins 4 and 2. Fore wings below fuscous gray; 

 inner margin white, with traces of medial and postmedial lines; a 

 subterminal pale line from costa. Hmd wings below white, irrorated 

 with fuscous gray; a dark discal point, and postmedial line; termen 

 broadly dark, cut by a wavy subterminal white line. 



Female. — Browner. Fore wings: A fine, outcurved antemedial 

 line; a narrow, dark medial shade; postmedial fine, outcurved ; a pale 

 shade from cell, through discoceUular to termen; the reniform nar- 

 rower, less obhque; the subterminal wavily dentate, vertical; no 

 dark apical space, only some terminal brown shading. 



Expanse. — 22 mm. 



Habitat. — Misantla, Mexico. 



Type.— Cat. No. 19731, U.S.N.M. 



