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ventral black stripe, widening on the tips of the segments, and 

 forming transverse bands on the posterior segments. Wing- 

 scales narrow, hair-like, entirely deep black. 



Male genitalia: Side pieces three times as long as wide, 

 rounded at tip, uniform ; both lobes obsolete ; at the base, a very 

 large spine, and remote from it two minute setaform spines, 

 united by a narrow chitinization. Harpago with long curved 

 stem, and equally long narrowly sickle-shaped filament. Harpes 

 normal. Basal appendages short, each with four spines. 



Types, No. 23826, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; male and female, Mex- 

 ico City, Mexico (Juan Miiller). 



A very distinct species, of northern origin, the coloration 

 much as in diantaeus H., D. & K., but the male genitalia essen- 

 tially as in pullatus Coq. 



A NEW NOCTUID FROM COLOMBIA 



(Lepidoptera, Noctuidce, Acronyctince) 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR 



Monodes aphronistes, new species. 



Fore wing dark purplish gray, marked with carneous red in 

 basal space on costal half, narrowly subcostally above the stig- 

 mata, and forming a streak from beyond outer line to apex, 

 but not a continuous costal pale shade. A black spot in sub- 

 basal space before inner line, lines both narrow, faint, pale, 

 denticulate, the outer curving in over reniform. Reniform 

 and orbicular large, separate, powdery pale gray filled. Inner 

 margin broadly irrorate with gray and carneous scales. Ter- 

 minal space cut by the apical dash, which is bordered below by 

 a black line. Hind wing pale sordid, fuscous on margin and 

 fringe, the latter paler at anal angle. Expanse, 23 mm. 



Type, female. No. 22803, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Bogota, Colom- 

 bia, September 2, 1919 (F. Clark). 



