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Fore wings: Apex acute; outer margin rounded; vein 3 before lower 

 angle; 4 and 5 from lower angle; 6 close to upper angle; 7 from areole, 

 which is narrow; 8 ,9, 10 stalked from areole; 11 free. Hind wings: 

 Veins 3 and 4, and 6 and 7 very shortl}^ stalked; vein 5 weU above 

 lower angle. 



Type of genus. — Taplionia peonis Schaus. 



The genus includes : 



Taplionia muscosa {Hypena) Druce, Biol. Centr. Amer., Het., vol. 1, 

 1890, p. 436, pi. 35, fig. 19. 



Taplionia lysis (Aristaria) Druce, Biol. Centr, Amer., Het., vol 1, 

 1890, p. 458, pi. 37, fig. 21. 



TAPHONIA PEONIS, new species. 



Male. — Body and wings fuscous gray. Wings: The lines black; an 

 interrupted terminal line expanding on interspaces; cilia light gray. 

 Fore wings: A faint antemedial line; orbicular small, light brown 

 edged with black; a medial line touching reniform, which consists of 

 a black line followed by some light brown scaling; postmedial and 

 outer lines parallel, wavy dentate with whitish gray points on veins. 

 Hind wings: A postmedial line, outwardly edged with whitish near 

 inner margin; tlie sub terminal minutely dentate with whitish points 

 on veins. Fore wings below fuscous gray, the costa and termen 

 paler; a postmedial black line. Hind wings below whitish irrorated 

 with fuscous gray; a dark point on discoceUular; a dark postmedial 

 line; the pale sub terminal line formed by dark edging. Fore tibiae 

 smooth. 



Expanse. — 22 mm. 



Habitat. — Orizaba, Jalapa, Mexico. 



Type.— Ciit. No. 19773, U.S.N.M. 



TAPHONIA GRISEIRENA, new species. 



Female. — Palpi dark brown, the fringe above irrorated witli whitish. 

 Head, collar, thorax and fore wings purplish black. Abdomen 

 fuscous with sublateral whitish irrorations. Fore wings: Lines fine, 

 dull black; a subbasal grayish point in cell; antemedial line wavy; or- 

 bicular a small whitish gray spot finely edged with black; a curved 

 medial line from ceU; reniform large, irregular, whitish gray, crossed 

 by a broken black line, and outwardly touching a black spot on 

 postmedial; the postmedial and sub terminal parallel, wavy on anterior 

 half, lunular below it, the subterminal outwardly finely edged with 

 dark gray; a wavy riiarginal line connecting black points. Hind 

 wings fuscous brown; faint postmedial and subterminal lines; the 

 terminal as on forewings. Hind wings below dark brown with some 

 whitish irrorations; a black point on discoceUular and faint traces of 

 lines. 



