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Four females and one male, Mexico City, Mexico, September, 

 October, and November, L909 (R. Midler!. 



Type. Cat. No. L2999, U.S.N.M. 



The sexes are essentially alike, the male having the mesial pale 

 area a little narrower and straighter than in the female and more 

 distinctly marked with dark shade lines. 



Family LASK )( AM PI D/E. 

 Genus METAN ASTR I A Hubner, 



METANASTRIA GUSTAN DA, new species. 



Reddish gray, the terminal space more gray, with a gray streak 

 from the base through the cell, indistinctly joining the terminal gray- 

 ish area; four straight lines across the wing, the first two erect, the 

 outer two more oblique, the first, second, and fourth edged outwardly 

 with brown, the third inwardly so edged; a white discal point; sub- 

 terminal line irregular, composed of pale oblique streaks between the 

 veins. Hind wing dark red. Abdomen red above and below, the 

 sides and tip brown. Expanse, 7.". mm. 



One, male, Zacualpan, Mexico, August, 100!) (R. Muller). 



Type.— Cut. No. 13000, U.S.N AI. 



Allied to Metanastria c/i<nnpioni Druce, but with narrower wings 

 and differently colored. 



Genus TOLYPE Hubner. 



TOLYPE CELESTE, new species. 



White, the thorax marked with gray, the abdomen ringed with 

 gray. Fore wing with a grayish overcast, and crossed by wavy dark 

 gray lines: three lines on the basal part of the wing, separated by 

 t wo linear lines of the ground color: median space wide above, includ- 

 ing a black sublimate discal mark, narrow below and cut off by the 

 approximating lines into a round space below vein 2; four lines 

 beyond, the lirst two separated by a linear white line, the others 

 waved, confused, subconfluent, limited by a while subterminal line 

 that is dislocated on all the veins below vein •"> ami forms a patch 

 between ."» and 0; terminal space tilled in with gray: fringe spotted 

 with gray. Hind wing white, a gray mark at anal angle. Expanse 

 I:', mm. 



One female, Misantla, Mexico. November, 1909. (R. Midler . 



Type. Cat. No. L3001, U.S.N.M. 



Allied to Tolypi infernalis Schaus, but the hind wings are white 

 instead of dark gray. 



