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One male, Cuernavaca, Mexico, June, 1909 (K. Midler); two 

 females, Guadalajara and Oaxaca, Mexico (Scliaus collection). 



Type.— Cat. No. 13046, U.S.N.M. 



This species is listed in the Biologia as Samea zinghalis "Walker. 

 This was described from Venezuela, and while 1 have no specimens 

 from that country, 1 have a series from Brazil, the Guianas, and the 

 Lesser Antilles, which show a form clearly specifically distinct. The 

 North American Jvuronalis Guenee ( = serinalis Walker) is still 

 another species. The three, Jiuronalis, dispardls, and zinghalis are 

 easily distinguished by the markings of the hind win^s. 



Genus PACHYZANCLA Meyrick. 

 PACHYZANCLA JUNCTALIS, new species. 



Gray, the wings semitransparent. Fore wing yellowish alon^ the 

 costa, especially at the outer third; lines gray, darker than the wing; 

 inner line narrow, curved, without wavings; two blackish discal dots, 

 orbicular and reniform, with a pale yellow bar between in the cell; 

 outer line curved from costa to vein 2, slightly flexuous, thence inward 

 along vein 2 and thence straight to inner margin at its outer third. 

 Hind wing of the same color as fore wing, the costa and cell pale yel- 

 low with a gray mark in the cell ; outer line as on the fore wing, curved 

 to vein 2, thence inward and straight to above anal angle. Expanse, 

 .'!'_' mm. 



One male, Orizaba, Mexico, January, 1908 (R. Mi'iller). 



Type.— C&t. No. 13407, U.S.N.M. 



Allied to Pachyzancla acyptera Hampson from the same locality, 

 but larger and with the pale patches in the cells of both wings. 



CIRAPHORUS, new genus. 



Palpi porrect, rather shorl and with long scales, the third joint 

 nude; fore wing with veins 8 and !> stalked: hind wing with veins 1 

 and ."> stalked, separate 1 on fore win*; : antenna' with the shaft annulate, 

 longer than fore wing, the legs very long and slender, the wings nar- 

 row and pointed; front prominent, smoothly rounded, and without a 

 prominence. 



Typi of the genus. — Qiraphorus tle<«l<s Dyar. 

 Allied to StenoptycTia Zeller and Lin<<><hs Guenee. 



CIRAPHORUS ELCODES, new species. 



Creamy gray. Fore wing cream color at base, brownish beyond 

 the middle, shading to gray at anal angle; an oblique gray band from 

 near middle of inner margin to cell; beyond it a hyaline patch, 

 pointed outwardly and bordered not quite immediately by a black 



