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irrorate with rufous, shaded with purpHsh brown on the outer 

 half between the spots, subbasal Hne brown, dislocated on 

 subcostal vein ; inner line curved, narrow, brown, cutting the 

 claviform, the inner segment of which forms a narrow orange 

 lunule, the outer obsolete, a black spot at the apex ; orbicular 

 round, evenly margined with brown, no white ; renif orm con- 

 trasted in the purple shading, full, orange with dark shadings 

 on inner half ; three white dots below ; traces of white on 

 upper outer angle ; suberterminal line forming a large yellow 

 blotch apically, then narrowed, rufous, forming between veins 

 2 to 5 narrow rufous spots edged without with blackish ; a 

 median dark line, angled at origin of vein 2. Hind wing black- 

 ish brown. Expanse, 25 mm. 



Type, male. No. 22961, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Zacualpan, 

 Mexico, May, 1919 (R. Miiller). 



Nearest to H. anastagia Dyar. The male antennae are dis- 

 tinctly, though shortly serrate. 



Hydroeciodes exagitans, new species. 



Palpi with the hair in front longer than usual, but not as 

 long as in Stretchia. Male antenna? with long pectinations. 

 Thorax dark brown ; abdomen blackish, the apical tuft light. 

 Fore wing uniform brown, the inner and outer bands and 

 stigmata lighter, with a yellowish tint, edged with fine black 

 lines, but not at all contrasted ; terminal space a shade darker. 

 Orbicular round, small ; renif orm also small, with a blackish 

 central shade ; a dark shade along costa, with whitish specks 

 toward apex ; outer line slender, denticulate, forming the inner 

 edge of the paler band ; subterminal line forming the outer 

 edge, less distinctly denticulate, inflexed at vein 5. Hind 

 wing gray, lighter on the disk, with a faint discal spot. Ex- 

 panse, 27 mm. 



Type, male, No. 22692, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Mexico City, 

 Mexico, June. 1919 (R. Miiller). 



Scriptania optima, new species. 



Light brown over silvery white, the brown perhaps olive 

 green when fresh. Cell narrowly silvery white ; renif orm and 



