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cell, a rhomlboidal one between veins 2-3, and a third between 

 veins 1-2, excavate without and pointed within, the three con- 

 fluent; a smaller spot between veins 3-4, drawn out on its 

 lower corner; three subapical spots fused into a straight band. 

 Hind wing with yellow fringe at apex. Beneath, dark brown, 

 the markings of fore wing repeated, the anal area suffused 

 with yellow. Hind wing a little purplish irrorated, defining 

 faintly a dark base and broad outer band. Apical fringe 

 above. Expanse, 40 mm. 



Type, male, No. 23620, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Mexico City, 

 Mexico, August, 1919 (R. Miiller) ; paratype, female, near 

 Mexico City, July (R. Miiller). 



Family NOCTUID^ 

 Subfamily AGROTIN^ 

 Mesembreuxoa intricata, new species. 



Fore wing dark purplish brown in ground-color ; costa 

 broadly clay-color from base to reniform ; subterminal space 

 rosy lilacine, cut by wedge-shaped black marks before the sub- 

 terminal line, the rosy shade running in below cell to inner 

 line, with a whitish clay-colored line below ; inner line rosy, 

 forming an arc, with rosy scales preceding ; outer line slight ; 

 subterminal line pale, near the margin, forming cusps ; or- 

 bicular oblique, rosy with luteous edge ; reniform similar, erect, 

 joining a narrow pale line along median vein ; fringe dull rosy, 

 pale at base. Hind wing pale over the disk, the veins, discal 

 line and margin broadly fuscous. Expanse, 35 mm. 



Type, male. No. 23622, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Mexico [City, 

 Mexico], September [1919] (R. Miiller). 



Euxoa cyttara, new species. 



Fore wing purplish brown on inner margin, more- reddish 

 centrally, the costa broadly pale luteous to middle of cell. The 

 pale color does not attain the costal edge, but involves most 

 of the basal space ; lines marked on costa, narrowly broken, 

 reappearing below, slender blackish, nearly straight ; a black- 

 ish shade from reniform, widening on margin ; clavif orm a 



