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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Pseudomeritastis decora, new species 



Figure 1; Plate 6 (Figs. 1-3) 



Male: Antenna pale gray yellowish, on under surface ferruginous; 

 labial palpus with basal segment whitish, second gray, brownish 

 ferruginous apicad, and terminal segment brownish ferruginous; head 

 and thorax [damaged] gray. Forewing Hght gray; markings ferrugi- 

 nous-brown, edged and in part transversely strigulated with dark 

 brown, arranged as follows: a rotundate-subquadi'ate blotch on 

 dorsum towards base, reaching lower vein of discal cell, and farther 

 extended as an oblique streak angulated before external tip located 

 above a second blotch; this blotch, also resting on dorsum and much 

 larger than basal blotch, occupies most of external half of forewing; 

 upper margin of this blotch is roundly excavated; this excavation 

 divides upper portion of blotch in two unequal parts, external of them 



Figures 1, 2. — External characters of the genus Pseudomeritastis: 1, head of P. decora, new 

 species, male; 2, wing venation of P. voluta (Meyrick"), male. 



larger and more rotundate; a short, longitudinal, whitish streak \vithin 

 blotch, separating its external upper part from remaining, ground 

 portion of blotch; a triangidar, light gray interspace on dorsum, 

 opened costally and strigulated with ferruginous, located between 

 two mentioned blotches, and continued between external blotch and 

 streak of basal blotch; a rather narrow, slightly curved, dark brown 

 sub terminal fascia from about four-fifths of costa to tornus; between 

 this fascia and external blotch a whitish interspace divided length- 

 ways by a ferruginous line tiu-ned basad in subcostal area and dilated 

 there as a streak connected with already mentioned streak above 

 basal blotch; costa ferruginous edged, with grayish dots beneath; 

 apicoterminal portion of forewing darker than subcostal area, with 



