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small white dot. Hind wings white, immaculate. Beneath the markings of upper 

 side faintly repeated. Expanse, 27 mm. 



One male, Mexico City, Mexico, June, 1907 (R. MLiller, No. 



1039)- 



Type. — No. 10457, U. S. National Museum. 



Closely allied to Acontia areli Strecker, but the white patch on 



the fore wings is much larger and the hind wings are immaculate. 



Noctua exculpatrix, new species. 



Head brown, front black between the eyes ; thorax purplish brown, intermixed 

 with black scales, the abdomen lighter. Fore wings broad, purplish brown, the 

 maculation reduced to streaks- on the veins, the ordinary lines obsolete ; vein I 

 blackish lined the whole length, median with veins 3 and 4 continuously black, 

 except for a slight interruption beyond the position of the transverse posterior line, 

 which is slightly indicated by a row of venular dots; veins 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8 lined 

 with black scales, continuously so toward the margin ; a row of intravenular whitish 

 dashes indicating the subterminal line ; terminal space darker, more grayish than the 

 rest of the wing. Hind, wing soiled whitish, the outer margin broadly smoky ; veins 

 lined in blackish. Beneath the costae of both wings are roseate brownish, spreading 

 at the apices ; rest of the surface whitish ; outer line indicated in a broad smoky 

 band. Expanse, 38 mm. 



One female, Elsinore, Utah (U. S. Dept. Agriculture, Bureau of 

 Entomology). 



Type. — No. 10822, U. S. National Museum. 



Allied to Noctua piscipellis Grote, but the veins distinctly lined in 

 black. 



Family NOTODONTID^. 



Dicentria minotelis, new species. 



Fore wing gray, reddish at base along inner margin ; a black dash at base below 

 median vein ; lines obsolete ; a curved black mark on the discal cross-vein ; a white, 

 somewhat waved shade across the discal veinlets in the position of the outer line, 

 beyond which is a reddish shade overlaid with blackish between the veins sub- 

 terminally ; a white spot following the dark streak between veins 2, 3 and 3, 4. 

 Hind wings white, tipped with gray at anal angle. Head and thorax dark gray 

 the posterior tuft shaded with vinous and tipped with black. Abdomen ochraceous 

 brown, the tip lighter, the basal tuft gray. Antennas testaceous. Expanse, 38 mm. 



One male, Mexico City, Mexico, June, 1907 (R. Miiller, No. 

 1036). 



Type. — No. 10458, U. S. National Museum. 



Nearly allied to D. linita Schaus from Jalapa, Mex., but the ground 

 color is uniform dark gray and the hind wings are white. 



