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EUSTROTIA LIXINITES, new species. 



Base of fore wing clear gray; a dark gray patch on costa, dislo- 

 cated from the band on inner margin, which is very wide on the mar- 

 gin, narrows abruptly into a rounded point above, terminating in the 

 cell; space beyond ocherous, much overspread with gray outwardly; 

 costa spotted ocherous and blackish; reniform an ocherous ringlet; 

 subterminal line black, waved, broadest on costa; a light terminal 

 line; fringe with a black patch at middle and at anal angle. Hind 

 wing gray, fringe light, the veins and margin darker. Expanse, 24 

 mm. 



Type. — Male, No. 13946, U.S.N.M., Oaxaca, Mexico (Schaus collec- 

 tion). 



EUSTROTIA MELOR, new species. 



Base of fore wing gray; black band very broad, narrowing some- 

 what toward costa, indented in the middle a little on the outer side, 

 edged with silvery on both sides; space beyond ocherous, strongly 

 but irregularly shaded with blackish beyond the reniform; reniform 

 an ocherous ellipse, scarcely defined; subterminal line pale, irregular, 

 passing through the terminal clouding; fringe black, the color nar- 

 rowly and somewhat irregularly staining the margin of the wing. 

 Hind wing whitish in the male, with the veins dark, especially on the 

 margin; solidly blackish gray in the female. Expanse, 18 mm. 



Cotypes. — Male and female, No. 13947, U.S.N.M., Cuernavaca, 

 Mexico, July, 1906 (W. Schaus). 



EUSTROTIA MELORISTA, new species. 



Base of fore wing dark gray; black band broad, narrowing some- 

 what above, edged on both sides with silvery and within by orange 

 also; space beyond orange; reniform faintly indicated, paler; sub- 

 terminal line silvery, waved, preceded by a patch of black shading on 

 costa and another just below it and a very small one on submedian; 

 terminal space brown shaded; fringe dark gray with a black line at 

 base, broken in the middle. Hind wing blackish brown, uniform. 

 Expanse, 17 mm. 



TVpe.— Female, No. 13948, U.S.N.M., Iguala, State of Guerrero, 

 Mexico, 2,400 feet, June, 1906 (W. Schaus). 



EUSTROTIA DISSOCIATA, new species. 



Base of fore wing pale gray, the outer two-thirds clayey ocherous; 

 a black triangle on costa close to base, followed by a small dash; inner 

 band broad and triangular on costa, constricted in cell, widened again 

 below, and then constricted to a fine thread below vein 1 ; reniform a 

 pale ellipse, filled and surrounded by an extensive grayish cloud; two 

 dark dashes on costa; a triangular subapical patch; outer margin 



