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angled, thicker and obliquely down bent to vein 4, where it is fine, 

 deeply incurved, and close to medial line from vein 3 to inner mar- 

 gin; a wavy and interrupted dark subterminal line; a fine dark 

 terminal line. Hind wings white; a faint brownish postmedial line, 

 and a finer terminal line. Fore wings below silky gray brown. 

 Hind wings below white; a dark spot on discocellular; a dark post- 

 medial line and fine terminal line; some dark irrorations on costa. 



Expanse. — 23 mm. 



Habitat. — Carabaya, Peru. 



Type.— Cat. No. 23374, U. S. N. M. 



Family NOCTUIDAE. 



PROTAGROTIS VENIPICTA, new species. 



Female. — Palpi black. Head and collar fuscous brown, the former 

 mottled with ocherous hairs on vertex, the latter deeply fringed 

 behind with ocherous. Thorax steel black with dark brown shad- 

 ing in front. Abdomen black brown above, underneath black 

 mottled with white. Fore wings dark brown, the lines fuscous 

 brown, the veins steel gray irrorated with blueish white; a subbasal 

 line shaded on either side with ocherous on costa; antemedial line 

 very fine, outbent on costa, incurved in cell, vertical below it, pre- 

 ceded by an ocherous shade on costa; a faint round ocherous orbicu- 

 lar spot; reniform very indistinct, paler brown with a few orange 

 scales; postmedial outcurved below costa and inbent to inner mar- 

 gin, almost punctiform, geminate, preceded from vein 3 to inner 

 margin by a straight dark line; some ocherous shading on post- 

 medial below costa; subterminal close to postmedial consisting of 

 black spots between the veins; a fine terminal black line. The 

 wings are iridescent, so the dark shadings seem to suffuse. Hind 

 wings fuscous brown. Fore wings below fuscous with a fringe of 

 long fine down turned hairs on costa; cilia brown with fuscous shad- 

 ing. Hind wings below fuscous gray, the apical half above vein 4 

 whitish with dark postmedial and subterminal lines; a dark discal 

 point; termen narrowly whitish. 



Expanse. — 35 mm. 



Habitat. — Volcan de Santa Maria, Guatemala. 



Type.— Cat. No. 23375, U. S. N. M. 



ERIOPYGA CARNEITINCTA, new species. 



Male. — Head, collar, thorax, and legs grayish clay color, the palpi 

 laterally fuscous. Abdomen above dull fuscous; anal tufts and 

 long lateral tufts brownish ocher. Fore wings silky lilacine gray 

 thinly irrorated with black; costal margin to postmedial, end of cell, 

 and an incurved shade from termen below apex to vein 3 reddish 

 brown; reniform indistinct, pale reddish brown with a small fuscous 



