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HARRISINA TESSACANS, new species. 



Fore wing blue-black; hind wing duller black, but with some blue 

 luster. Beneath with blue luster. Collar broadly orange-yellow. 

 Expanse, 28 mm. 



r?/pe.— Male, No. 14219, U.S.N.M., Tehuacan, Mexico, April, 1911 

 (R. MuUer). 



Genus ACOLOITHUS Clemens. 



ACOLOITHUS ERYTHROZONA, new species. 



Black, the wings not very densely scaled and with very little 

 metallic reflection; what is present is bluish. Abdomen crimson 

 except the basal and terminal segments. Expanse, 20 mm. 



Ty^e.—^o. 13866, U.S.N.M., Mexico City, Mexico, August, 1910 

 (R. Miiller). 



Genus PSEUDOTALARA Druce. 



PSEUDOTALARA PSEUDOPHILE, new species. 



Wings dark leaden gray, the Mnd wings a httle less metallic than 

 the fore wings; an orange band on collar running around the head 

 and staining its posterior portion. Expanse, 17 mm. 



Type. — No. 13867, U.S.N.M., Oaxaca, Mexico (Schaus collection). 



PSEUDOTALARA LATERALIS, new species. 



Bright orange color. Costal edge of fore wing and outer margin 

 narrowly black. Hind wing with a black border on margin, broad- 

 est at apex. Head black on vortex with a few orange scales in 

 front; disk of thorax orange; legs black; abdomen orange on the 

 sides, black dorsally and ventrally. Expanse, 26 mm. 



Type. — No. 13868, U.S.N.M., Misantla, Mexico, November, 1910 

 (R. MiiUer). 



Family CASTNIID^. 



Genus CASTNIA Fabricius. 



CASTNIA THYSANETE, new species. 



Black; fore wing washed with wliitish beyond cell and in lower 

 part of subterminal space, the white irrorated with black and assum- 

 ing a leaden tint on inner margin; a white oblique bar on costa at 

 end of cell; two white subapical spots; outer line oblique, straight, 

 from middle of inner margin to costa before apex, black, defined whit- 

 ish within, lost apically in the region of the white spots; the line is 

 followed by black lunules of the ground color above vein Ic, running 

 into the black termen above. Hind wing with a red mesial bar and 

 two outer rows of creamy white spots, the inner row small and dif- 



