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PSEUDOMYA MELANTHOIDES, new species. 



Female. — Palpi laterally white. Body fuscous brown; suffusing 

 red spots on vertex; paired red spots on shoulders and thorax pos- 

 teriorly. Fore wings hyaline the veins, cilia, and margins finely 

 fuscous brown; the base narrowly and inner margin dark brown; a 

 broad medial fuscous brown fascia, expanding somewhat toward 

 inner margin. Hind wings: the basal half hyaline crossed by dark 

 veins, the outer half fuscous brown. 



Expanse. — 22 mm. 



Habitat. — Cayuga. 



Tyjpe.—Csit. No. 22408, U.S.N.M. 



Near P. nigrizona Schaus. 



SYNTOMEIDA VENADIA, new species. 



Male. — Head black, the frons shot, with metallic blue; palpi 

 orange; antenna black, tipped with white. Thorax black, shaded 

 with metallic blue; tegulae and patagia orange, finely edged with 

 black. Abdomen black; a large orange quadrate spot at base; 

 broad segmental orange lines, interrupted dorsally except on last 

 segment; some blue shading dorsally and laterally; anal hairs 

 orange; ventral valve orange, edged with black; yellow ventral 

 band on segments 3 and 4. Fore coxae yellow. Fore wings black; 

 a broad orange streak on costa near base, and fine orange hne on 

 inner margin; an orange medial spot from subcostal to submedian, 

 whitish and semihyaline just below cell; a similar postmedial spot 

 from subcostal to vein 2, whitish and semihyaline between veins 2 

 and 4, vein 3 remaining orange. Hind wings black; a large semi- 

 hyaline white spot at base from cell to inner margin; a similar post- 

 medial spot from costal margin to near termen, cut by orange veins. 

 Fore wings below black, the spots as above; the orange streak on 

 costa reaching base. Hind wings below as above; basal third of 

 costa and the cell orange. 



Expanse. — 33 mm. 



Habitat. — Presidio, Sinaloa, Mexico. 



Type.— C&i. No. 22409, U.S.N.M. 



Near S. hampsonii Barnes. 



CERCOPIMORPHA SYLVA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi fuscous, the second and third joints tipped with 

 white; frons brown; vertex, collar, and thorax brown streaked with 

 lilacine gray; abdomen above and laterally yellow, the venter and 

 entire first and anal segments black; fore wings dark slate color, 

 tinged with lilacine, the veins dark brown; costa gray; a fine lila- 

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