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and a reddish streak on costa beyond ; a double pale brown 

 shade across cell, less distinct on costa and forming a vague 

 shade to inner margin ; an ochreous white shade in end of cell ; 

 a dark brown line on discocellular and short brown and black 

 streaks on veins 2-6 adjoining cell ; ochreous white streaks 

 from cell to termen above veins 4 and 5 ; a fuscous shade at 

 cell below vein 5 ; pale brownish shades along veins 4 and 5, 

 and terminally on veins 6 and 7 ; a black streak between veins 

 7 and 8 followed by a short white streak; some pale grayish 

 shading between veins 2 and 4 ; from vein 4 to inner margin 

 faint traces of a double pale brownish postmedial line, inbent 

 below vein 2 ; cilia of inner margin from middle to tornus and 

 up to vein 3 dark reddish, tipped with black between tornus 

 and vein 2 ; veins 1-3 terminally black. Hind wings white ; 

 costa at apex shaded with gray ; inner margin shaded with 

 light brown; cilia at anal angle reddish brown and black. 

 Wings below white; costa of fore wing shaded with gray and 

 ochre ; small dark spots toward apex ; fuscous streaks between 

 veins 6 and 8 ; a dark streak on costa of hind wings, the cilia 

 close to anal angle reddish brown. 



Expanse, 44 mm. 



Habitat. — Hidalgo, Guerrero, Mexico. 



Type.— Cat. No. 23593, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Received from Mr. B. Preston Clark. 



Near Dicentria drucei Schaus, but broader winged and the 

 costal margin darker shaded. 



Malocampa obliquata, new species. 



Female. — Palpi laterally brown irrorated with white hairs. 

 Frons white. Vertex with ridge of gray and white hairs. 

 Collar and thorax gray mottled with dark brown hairs. Abdo- 

 men above gray with fine whitish segmental lines and lateral 

 ochreous white tufts at base ; underneath ochreous white. 

 Fore and hind tibiae brown, the latter irrorated with white, 

 fore and hind tarsi fuscous with fine white rings ; hind legs 

 whitish. Wings gray, the basal half tinged with pale brown, 

 the terminal space above tornus white, traces of an antemedial 

 dark curved line ; a series of points along middle of cell ; a fine 



