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shade. Margin dark gray ; fringe gray, dotted with white. 

 Hind wing white, a small discal dot, outer pale gray line, and 

 slight shades at apex and tornus ; small blackish marks along 

 termen. In the paratype, the hind wings are wholly gray 

 shaded, the discal mark large. Expanse, 24 mm. 



Type, female. No. 23729, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Cuernavaca, 

 Mexico, June, 1906 (W. Schaus) ; paratype, female, Venadio, 

 Sinaloa, Mexico (A. Kusche, gift of B. Preston Clark). 



Xylomoea staticis, new species. 



Dark clay-color, shaded with bright brown on costal area. 

 Base a little brown shaded ; inner line rigid, brown, sharply 

 angled on median vein; orbicular a black point; reniform two 

 indefinite ringlets, separated by a brown bar; median shade 

 broad, brown, touching the outer line below ; outer line angled 

 from costa, oblique below, brown, straight, subterminal line 

 wavy, brown; termen narrowly white, with black dots in base 

 of fringe ; fringe with white scales, mostly brown in the exca- 

 vation above vein 4. Hind wing brown shaded, paler at base, 

 the fringe pale. Expanse, 24 mm. 



Type, male. No. 23730, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Venadio, Sinaloa, 

 Mexico (A. Kusche, gift of B. Preston Clark) ; paratypes, 

 two males, with the same data. 



Subfamily ERASTRIIN^ 

 Cymonia, new genus. 



Fore wing with vein 10 stalked from the accessory cell, 10 

 not anastomosing with 11 ; fore tibia without claw; frons with 

 a corneous plate with raised edges, occupying the whole front 

 to the antennae, with a large round central process, nearly 

 filling the plate. 



Cymonia harminella, new species. 



Fore wing clay-color, the margin broadly olive brown, with 

 a strongly curved inner edge, parallel to outer margin. Hind 

 wing dull reddish. Expanse, 23 mm. 



Type, female. No. 23731, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Venadio, Sinaloa, 

 Mexico (A. Kusche, gift of B. Preston Clark). 



Superficially resembling Monocymia harmina Schaus. 



