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mainder of segments narrowly edged with grayish; first three seg- 

 ments cinereous beneath, 



Male genitalia (slide 10402) : Clasper a blunt, sclerotized process, 

 directed toward base of harpe; cucullus broadly rounded. Anellus 

 a transverse, rectangular plate, articulated at each posterolateral 



Figure 56. — Pyrausta louvinia, new species: 56, ventral view of male genitalia with left 

 harpe and aedeagus removed; 56a, aedeagus. 



corner with a slender arm of the transtilla. Uncus an elongated 

 triangle. Vinculum narrow with scale-tuft membrane attached. 

 Aedeagus stout, slightly bent; vesica armed with a cluster of fine 

 cornuti. 



Type: Masatierra: Miradero de Selkirk, 550 m. (Feb. 15, 1951). 

 Described from the unique male type. Similar in coloring to the 

 Mexican P. volupialis Grote, but darker, and lacking the light trans- 

 verse line of the fore wing of that species. 



Genus Loxostege Hiibner 



Loxostege oxaliSf new species 



Figure 57 

 Alar expanse 26 mm. 



Labial palpus ochraceous buff; second and third segments mth a 

 few red-brown scales. Antenna, head, and thorax ochraceous buff, 



