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produced opposite cell in a square, the outer edge of which is irregu- 

 larly dentate; terminal space powdered with white, especially next 

 the outer line, a little yellow shaded below; submarginal line whitish, 

 dentate, broken and more or less dislocated ; fringe concolorous with 

 the terminal space with white basal dots. Hind wing brown-black 

 with some irregular white scales near anal angle. Expanse, 36 mm. 



Coty pes.— Two males, two females. No. 13956, U.S.N.M., Misantla, 

 Mexico, May, 1909, May, 1910 (R. Miiller). 



Determined by Sir G. F. Hampson, who placed a mark of doubt by 

 the generic name. 



Genus CASANDRIA Walker. 

 CASANDRIA OLIVARIS, new species. 



Costal area sordid ocherous, apparently originally olive green; 

 inner two-thirds of wing gray; subbasal line gray, with an outward 

 closed loop in the middle containing a few whitish scales; inner line 

 gray with strong dentations in cell and on submedian; reniform an 

 angular-pyriform line with central dot; outer line dislocated from a 

 deep black mark on costa, strongly dentate, incurved below cell and 

 remaining thence near middle of wing with a square outward produc- 

 tion in submedian area; subterminal line whitish, clouded and 

 obscure, but forming a white dot above tornus. Hind wing pale, 

 washed with gray outwardly, the veins dark; fringe pale. Expanse, 

 31 mm. 



Type. — Female, No. 13957, U.S.N.M., Misantla, Mexico, August, 

 1910 (R. Miiller). 



Determined by Sir G. F. Hampson and the name suggested by him. 



Genus PETEROMA Schaus. 



PETEROMA ALTERNATA, new species. 



Basal and outer two-thirds of median spaces black, the alternating 

 areas brownish gray; basal area somewhat obliquely limited out- 

 wardly, with indentation in cell and on vein 1, the black a shading 

 upon a browner ground and indistinctly lined; the outer dark area 

 just covers a dentate mesial line and is limited ■SN'ithout by the outer 

 line, black, dentate, incurved below vein 3 and followed by brown, 

 a wavy terminal pale line with black dots at the incisions; fringe 

 wavy. Hind wing brown; an outer curved black line running from 

 tornus and lost above middle of wing ; the line is clouded with brown 

 and followed by a faint reduplication ; a terminal crenulate black and 

 pale line. Expanse, 41 mm. 



Type.— M.a\e, No. 13958, U.S.N.M., Mexico City, Mexico, August, 

 1910 (R. Miiller). 



Mr. Schaus khidly examined this species and labeled it "Peteroma; 

 nothing exactly like it in British Museum." 



