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Genus COBUBATHA Walker. 



COBUBATHA DAMOZELA. new species. 



Fore wing dark silvery gray at base, a slender black subbasal line, 

 indented subcostally; a nearly erect median blackish shaded line, 

 bent on median vein ; space beyond it dark, filled by many lines and 

 shades; reniform white, elliptical, cut outwardly by a black central 

 patch; six coppery and whitish alternating hnes close beyond it, 

 outwardly oblique above, confused below, followed by a black sub- 

 marginal patch centrally and a large dark apical truncate triangle; 

 a slender black marginal line, preceded by white. Hind wing dark 

 fuscous, with slight coppery reflection. Expanse, 15 mm. 



Type. — Female, No. 15469, U.S.N.M.; Tehuacan, Mexico, August, 

 1912 (R. MuUer). 



COBUBATHA DREPTICA, new species. 



Fore wing with the base broadly hlacine gray, nearly unmarked, 

 the costa dark; terminal half of wing dark, blackish lilacine, indis- 

 tinctly marked with black; an inner slightly curved bordering fine 

 and subapical patch, continued as a broken fine below are most 

 distinct. Hind wing blackish, with bronzy reflection. Expanse, 

 13 mm. 



Type. — Male, No. 15470, U.S.N.M.; Tehuacan, Mexico, Septem- 

 ber, 1910 (R. Miiller). 



COBUBATHA EUPROPTOPA, new species. 



Fore wing with the basal third light coppery violaceous, bounded 

 by a curved Une; middle field blackish, coppery, covering the stig- 

 mata, which are hardly visible, bounded by the outer fine, which 

 forms a loop beyond cell; terminal area dark, not so dark and solid 

 as the median area, with a black blotch submarginally below costa 

 and a smaller one below near the middle. Hind wing black, with 

 bronzy tint. Expanse, 11 to 12 mm, 



Cotypes. — ^Two females, No. 15471, U.S.N.M.; Guadalajara and 

 Jalapa, Mexico (Schaus collection). 



COBUBATELA MONADA, new species. 



Fore wing with the basal half fight coppery brown, with a dark 

 shade on costa; outer half violaceous blackish, the dividing line 

 black, shaded, erect; a black shaded subapical mark from costa is 

 the only marking visible. Hind wing black, with bronzy reflection. 

 Expanse, 12 mm. 



Type. — Female, No. 15472, U.S.N.M.; Jalapa, Mexico (Schaus 

 collection). 



Resembles dreptica, described above, but darker, the pale basal 

 area less contrasted, smaUer, and bounded by a straight not curved 

 line. 



