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 AGGUSTIANA FRAGELALIS, new species. 



Male. — Palpi light brown with darker irrorations. Head and tho- 

 rax whjtish gray irrorated with brown; the collar tinged with light 

 brown. Fore wings gray; a fine brown inbent, wavy, antemedial 

 line; a postmedial brownish fascia, edged by the medial and post- 

 medial lines, the former passing across the dark brown discocellular 

 streak, the latter wavy and not pale-edged as in A. limaea Drucc; a 

 fine wavy sub terminal line. Hind wings dull gray; a fine dark ter- 

 minal line, straight, not crenulate as in A. limaea. 



Expanse. — 24 mim. 



Habitat. — Zacualpan, Mexico. 



Type.— Csit. No. 19779, U.S.N.M. 



Genus PHILOMETRA Grote. 

 Philovietra Grote, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, 1872, p. 98. 



Male. — Palpi very long, porrect, slightly fringed above near base. 

 Antennae pectinated. Wings broad. Fore wings: Veins 3, 4, 5 

 equally apart; 6 below upper angle; 7, 8 and 9, 10, from areole; 11 

 free. Hmd wings: Veins 3 and 4 from lower angle; 5 well above 

 angle; 6 and 7 from upper angle. 



Type of genus. — Pliilometra longilahris Grote, whicli sinks as a syno- 

 nym of metonalis (Herminia) W alkex.^ = gaosalis (Epizeuxis) Walker.^ 



Genus DERCETIS Grote. 



Dercetis Grote, Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 4, 1878, p. 186. 



Male. — Palpi long, porrect, four times as long as head; second joint 

 with triangular tuft above near head; third joint short, acute, slightly 

 fringed above. Antennae bipectinate. Legs smoothly scaled. Fore 

 wings: Outer margm smuous; veins 3, 4, 5, equally apart; 6 below 

 upper angle; areole very small; 7, 8 and 9, 10, from areole; 11 free. 

 Hind wings: Veins 3 and 4 and 6 and 7 stalked; 5 from near lower 

 angle. 



Type of genus. — Dercetis viirca Grote. 



DERCETIS POLYIDUS, new species, 



Male. — Palpi white irrorated with dark gray. Body creamy white 

 irrorated with light brown. Fore wings brownish white; costal 

 and outer margins finely striated with brown; lines fuscous brown on 

 costa, heavily marked, otherwise light brown, indistinct ; a subbasal 

 spot on costa; antemedial outcurved below cell; an oblique spot on 



1 Cat. Brit. Mus., vol. 16, 185S, p. 236. « Idem, vol. 19, 1859, p. 876. 



