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vein 5 not in line with the median, 10 separate from the stalk 

 of 8-9, a raised line of scales on basal third. 



Acromeseres dialithus, new species. 



Fore wing light gray, irrorated with blackish ; at basal third 

 a band of black raised scales, from cell to inner margin, slightly 

 oblique and followed by a broad orange-red area ; discal dots 

 small, black, separate; outer line faint, pale, wa^7^, edged with 

 black within. Hind wing whitish translucent, gray on costa, 

 ends of veins and outer margin. Expanse, 14 mm. 



Type, male, No. 21933, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Santiago, Cuba, 

 October, 1902 (W. Schaus). Also two males and five females 

 from the same place. 



Hemiptilocera jocarella Schaus. 



Acrobasis jocarella Schaus, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xi, 245, 

 1913. 



No male is at hand, so that any generic placing must be un- 

 certain ; still the species looks so much out of place in Acro- 

 basis that I have ventured to move it next to what certainly 

 seem to be its allies. 



Megarthria cervicalis, new species. 



Fore wing white on costal half, shading to dark gray on 

 inner area, this color reaching costa at base and apex ; a broad 

 red-brown at base on costa and another at middle of cell, both 

 oblique ; a costal spot above the small discal dots ; an oblique 

 band in reverse direction from apex, crossing the small pale 

 denticulate subterminal line ; hind wing gray, translucent. In 

 the neck behind the head are some very large flat white scales. 

 The abdomen of the male is long and beneath before the clasp- 

 ers are curious curved white structures instead of tufts 



Type, male. No. 31934, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Tanamo. Cuba, 

 August, 1901 (W. Schaus). 



Cerocanthia subcaudata, new species. 



Fore wing light yellowish gray, irrorated with piu'plish; 

 lines black, slender, the inner near the middle of the wing, the 

 outer submarginal ; discal dot yellowish ; dark streaks on the 



