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JORGENSENIA, new genus. 



Male. — Antennae with rather long pectinations ending in a long 

 cilia, the pectinations shortly ciliated; female antennae serrate with 

 short bristles. Palpi obliquely upturned reaching above vertex, 

 smoothly scaled. Legs smooth; hind tibiae with two pairs of short 

 spurs. Body smooth. Fore wing : costa almost straight, outer mar- 

 gin oblique ; vein 2 from towards angle of cell ; 3 from close to angle ; 

 4 and 5 on short stalk ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 before 

 9; 10 from cell; 11 anostomosing with 12. Hind wing: veins 2 and 

 3 stalked from angle of cell; 4 absent; 5 from just above angle; G 

 and 7 coincident. 



Type of genus. — Jorgensenia cunegunda Schaus. 



JORGENSENIA CUNEGUNDA, new species. 



Female. — Body and wings above black suffused with dusky green 

 The wings })elow duller. 

 Expanse. — 32 mm. 



Habitat. — Esquina Grande, Argentine Kepublic. 

 Type.— Cut. No. 26054, U.S.N.M. 

 Received from Don Pedro Jorgensen. 



TALARA THEA, new species. 



Male. — Head, collar, and thorax light mouse gray. Abdomen 

 black. Fore legs black, coxae and hind legs white, the hind tibiae 

 and tarsi tipped with black. Fore wing grayish white; a streak in 

 cell, and broad postmedial space from vein 6 to inner margin black; 

 mner margin broadly black; termen narrowly black, costa finely 

 black except on medial space ; cilia black. Hind wing black. Wings 

 below black, the apex of fore wing rather broadly white, the cilia 

 remaining black. 



Expanse. — 20 mm. 



Habitat. — Ecuador. 



Tgpe.—Csit. No. 26307, U.S.N.M. 



ASURA MODVENA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi fuscous. Head, collar, and thorax maize yellow; a 

 black point on shoulders, black tips to collar medially and a point on 

 patagia. Fore wing maize yellow, the markings black; a double 

 basal streak in cell, a streak on basal third of costal edge; inbent 

 antemedial spots above subcostal vein and in cell, an inset spot below 

 cell, an outset spot above submedian and an inset spot below it; a 

 medial line incurved from costa to end of cell at vein 3, then out- 

 curved to submedian and inbent; postmedial line remote sinuous 

 from below costa with short projecting lines on veins 8, 6, and 4 



