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PYRAUSTA POSTAPERTA, new species. 



Gray, tinged with crimson; lines slender, dark; inner line dentate 

 on vein 1; outer line excurved over cell, denticulate, running in 

 below, making a shallow sinus below median vein and a httle on vein 

 1 ; restricted yellow patches before inner line, in cell and beyond outer 

 line and a trace on termen and fringe; orbicular and reniform small, 

 dark; a terminal dark line. Hind wdng whitish; an erect gray hne 

 across disk from near end of vein 2 to middle of costa, before which 

 the veins and discal dot are hghtly gray; beyond it a clear space; a 

 gray terminal border and darker hne. Expanse, 20 mm. 



r?/pe.— Male, No. 16508, U.S.N.M.; Mexico City, Mexico, October, 

 1908 (R. Miiller). Also three males and one female from the same 

 place with additional data May, 1909 (R. Miiller); one female, 

 Oaxaca, Mexico (Schaus collection). 



PYRAUSTA DISSIMULANS, new species. 



Yellow, tinged with crimson; inner hne straight; outer Une 

 smoothly excurved to vein 2, then straight; space between shaded 

 with crimson-gray; apex clouded with same color, sending down a 

 straight submarginal band. Hind wing yellow, translucent, a mesial 

 faint straight gray line and faint discal dot close to it; a nearly mar- 

 ginal dark gray band, widening at apex; termen touched with crimson. 

 Expanse, 20 mm. 



Type.—FemalQ, No. 16509, U.S.N.M.; Mexico City, Mexico, July, 

 1913 (R. Miiller). 



Subfamily N-Y]VII>injI.IN^E. 

 Genus CLUPEOSOMA Snellen. 



CLUPEOSOMA PSEUDOPIS, new species. 



Fore wing straw-yellow, dusted with brown; hues brown, smooth; 

 subbasal line slight, curved; inner Ime strongly angled on median 

 vein to origin of vein 2, vein 2 and median vein beyond brown, inclos- 

 ing, with the outer line, a discolorous whitish space; orbicular a point 

 or absent; reniform an arc; outer line strongly excurved opposite 

 cell; a purphsh cloud fiUing most of terminal area below vein 6. 

 Hind wing whitish, straw-color at tip; some purphsh on termen and 

 fringe. Expanse, male, 18 mm.; female, 23 mm. 



Cotypes.— Two males, one female, No. 16513, U.S.N.M.; Zacualpan, 

 Mexico, July, 1913, and November, 1911 (R. Miiller). 



CLUPEOSOMA SUFFLEXALE, new species. 



Fore wing whitish straw-color shaded and blotched with brown; 

 subbasal hne lost in brown mottlings; inner line bent at right-angles, 

 the point at origin of vein 2; orbicular a dot; reniform an arc; outer 

 line excurved above opposite cell, sUghtly flexuous, angled on vein 1 ; 



