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Hylesia umbratula, new species. 



Head and thorax ocher brown ; abdomen lighter ocher. 

 Wings rusty violaceous, lines brown, both broad and even; 

 subterminal line wavy, irregular, narrow and subobsolete. 

 Hind wing with inner line distinct, outer obsolete; discal dot 

 moderate. Expanse, 38 mm. 



Type, male, No. 19322, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Teapa, Tabasco, 

 Mexico, August, 1914 (R. Miiller). 



Allied to H. umbrata Schaus, but lighter throughout, rosy 

 instead of gray. 



Family NOCTUID^ 



Subfamily HADENINJE 



Nephelistis perfurva, new species, 



Lilaceous brown ; inner line represented by a broad, curved, 

 dark brown shade, extending along median vein to reni- 

 form, followed below cell by bronzy to outer line; reniform 

 narrow, oblique, dark filled, obscurely pale ringed; outer line 

 slender, straight, oblique, curved only near costa, narrowly 

 followed by white, then a black band, narrowing toward apex, 

 bordered on its lower half by a narrow white line; terminal 

 space bronzy, narrowing to apex. Hind wing sordid whitish, 

 veins and termen gray powdered. Expanse, 28 mm. 



Type, male. No. 19348, U. S. Nat. Mus, ; Zacualpan, Mexico, 

 September, 1914 (R, Muller). 



Subfamily ACRONYCTINiE 



Chalcopasta ellica, new species. 



Fore wing gray with patches of metallic greenish golden; 

 base gray; a large golden area in inner space, running out 

 through the cell, twice indented above, angled on submedian 

 space ; costa gray to basal third ; a broad terminal golden area, 

 its inner edge indented on the veins, running from before apex 

 to near middle of inner margin. Hind wing powdered with 

 dark gray, less heavily on disk ; fringe pale. Expanse, 30 mm. 



Type, male. No. 19346, U. S, Nat. Mus,; Mexico City, 

 Mexico, September, 1914 (R. Miiller), 



