66 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



veins fulvous and an outer row of four small spots between 

 the veins. Expanse, 26 mm. 



Type, No. 21187, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Rantation Kitty, George- 

 town, British Guiana, bred from larvae on Paspalum gracile; 

 a water-grass (H. W. B. Moore). 



Vehilius sacchariphila, new species. 



Dark brown, without fulvous shading; small spots in inter- 

 spaces 2-3 and 3-4 of fore wing. Below, hind wing of a light 

 gray-brown with mesial and outer black curved lines from vein 

 2 to costa, irregularly broken and dislocated at the veins. Ex- 

 panse, 25 mm. 



Type, No. 21188, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Plantation Non Pareil, 

 Georgetown, British Guiana, bred from larvse on blades of 

 sugar cane (H. W. B. Moore). 



NOCTUID^ 

 Grypotes, new genus. 



Fore wing with accessory cell ; hind wing with vein 5 weak, 

 arising below center of cross-vein ; tibiae and tarsi unarmed ; 

 front with a hood-shaped process, forming a blunt central 

 point, with a plate below ; proboscis aborted ; palpi slender, up- 

 turned to vertex; eyes large, naked. 



Grypotes dentifer, new species. 



Fore wing white, rather densely irrorated with brown and 

 violaceous ; a white streak on median vein at base, followed by 

 the cusp of a broken brown subbasal line; inner line brown, 

 sharply angled outward to the position of orbicular, then in- 

 ward on median vein, then outward in another tooth on sub- 

 median fold ; median space filled with irrorations up to the 

 cell, with luteous streaks on submedian and discal folds ; reni- 

 form large, white, with a brown annular center; outer line 

 brown, toothed on costa and followed by pure white there, 

 rounded over reniform, denticulate below ; terminal space 

 gray, with a brown shade from costa to reniform and a sub- 

 marginal shade, narrow above, very wide below ; a row of 

 terminal brown dashes. Hind wing whitish, a little powdered 



