NO. 2039. NOCTUID MOTHS FROM TROPICAL AMERICA— SCHAUS. 539 



lowed by a broad darker shade, interrupted beyond cell, bifurcating on 

 inner margin; a fine subterminal shade. Hind wings: Base of costa 

 shaded with gray; a similar streak near inner margin; antemedial, 

 medial, and postmedial lines with some fuscous and reddish brown 

 scaling ; a fine brownish line on discocellular ; outer and subterminal 

 brownish shades. Wings below whitish, irrorated ^vith grayish 

 brown, on fore wings chiefly around discocellular space, and sub- 

 terminally; on hind wings fine antemedial, medial, and postmedial 

 lines. 



Expanse. — 19 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Jean, Maroni River. 



Type.— C&t. No. 16638, U.S.N.M. 



METAXECTRA ASTYLOS, new species. 



Male. — Body and wings brown, glossed with purple; some scattered 

 black and dark brown irrorations ; large round velvet}^ black spots on 

 discocellulars. Fore wings: Antemedial fuscous spots on costa, 

 below cell, and on inner margin; a black orbicular spot; medial spots 

 below cell and submedian fold; a darker brown postmedial shade, 

 interrupted by veins; subterminal brownish shades below costa, and 

 between veins 5 and 3. Hind wings: Postmedial, and subterminal 

 spots beyond cell; a medial spot near inner margin. Wings below 

 pale grayish brown; fuscous shades on discocellulars; some scattered 

 brownish irrorations; a faint subterminal shade. 



Expanse. — 21 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Jean, Maroni River. 



Type.— Cat. No. 16639, U.S.N.M. 



METALECTRA AGRIODOS, new species. 



Male. — Palpi brown, streaked below with fuscous gray, and with 

 a lateral pale shade. Head whitish; collar and thorax whitish shaded 

 with Ulacine, and irrorated with brown and black. Abdomen whitish 

 buff, thickly irrorated with brown and black; curved fuscous shading 

 on third and fourth segments. Wings lilacine gray thickly irrorated 

 with dark brown. Fore wings: A buff white shade above subcostal 

 interrupting lines, which are fine, brown, forming on costa broader 

 fuscous spots; antemedial slightly outbent; medial line wavy; a 

 dark brown shade on discocellular; an outer fine dentate whitish line, 

 followed from below vein 6 to costa by a large fuscous brown spot; a 

 terminal lunular line. Hind wings: Costa grayish; a gray streak 

 near inner margin; a velvety black line on discocellular, slightly 

 lunular; a fine, irregular postmedial line, coarser on inner margin; 

 faint subterminal spots on interspaces. Fore wings below grayish; 

 inner margin white to beyond middle; a postmedial line followed by 

 a yellow white spot on costa. Hind wings below pale gray, mottled 



