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A female, returned to Dr. Barnes, is the same, except that 

 the discal dot is larger and the hind wing nearly white. 



Platytes acerata, new species. 



White ; fore wing with the veins narrowly black lined ; broad 

 brown bands in the interspaces, that in interspace 5-6 pale 

 brown; discal dot round, black; a row of terminal black dots 

 in the interspaces; an oblique line starting from the costa 

 above discal dot, running out to the fork of veins 8-9 ; fringe 

 faintly interlined with brown. 



Hind wing distinctly emarginate below apex, white; veins 

 at apex touched with dusky and a terminal gray line on upper 

 half of wing. Expanse, 15 mm. 



Type, male, No. 21147, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Dade City, Florida, 

 September (J. A. Grossbeck). 



A female before me differs in having an irregular broken 

 outer line, brown, strongly excurved over cell and angled on 

 submedian fold. 



Florida (Schaus collection). 



Other specimens, apparently referable here, are labeled as 

 follows: One mjile, without abdomen, "From Texas, Boll," 

 "12 VI," "583,"""! do not know this species. Rag./86, white 

 label 137," "Coll. C. V. Riley," "Chilo densellus, Fernald det.;" 

 a male and female, unset and not fresh, Brownsville, Texas. 

 June, 1904 (H. S. Barber), and a second female, set, with the 

 same collecting data, but further labeled, "Chilo densellus Zell., 

 named by Kearfott, 1908." 



Platytes densellus Zeller has the veins white-lined, not black- 

 lined. It is curious that this obvious distinction should have 

 escaped two generally accurate authors. 



Platytes panalope, new species. 



Fore wing pale straw-color, the veins narrowly lined with 

 dark brown ; fainter and broader brown lines in the interspaces. 

 that in the interspace 5-6 very faint, causing the interspace to 

 appear as a pale ray emanating from the cell ; a small black 

 discal dot ; a row of terminal dots between the veins ; an 

 oblique brown line forms an angle on vein 2 at its basal third 



