INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 81 



Rolua, new genus. 



Characters of Chalcopasta Hampson, but the frontal process 

 has a central vertical plate instead of round process and has no 

 rim on the upper side. 



Type of the genus, Rolua monetifera, new species. 



Rolua monetifera, new species. 



Fore wing ocher straw-color obliquely at base below cell and 

 in narrow terminal lunate spots, the rest shaded with dark- 

 brown, the veins darker ; two large silver spots, one elliptical, 

 oblique in cell and across median at vein 2, the other much 

 larger, rounded triangular, over the discal venules from vein 

 1 to 4; outer line far out, slender, brown, parallel to margin 

 to vein 5, then retreating to costa ; a fine subterminal line 

 forming festoons along the veins ; a dark terminal line. Hind 

 wing black. Thorax ocher-brown ; abdomen black. Expanse, 

 35 mm. 



Type, male, No. 19347, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Zacualpan, Mexico, 

 September, 1914 (R. Miiller). 



Subfamily NOCTUIN^ 

 Eulepidotis columbrata, new species. 



Deep brown, thickly shaded with black ; three lines, the outer 

 two convergent toward inner margin ; inner line dark bronze, 

 once waved, edged within by pale lilac ; mesial line dark bronze, 

 somewhat irregular, edged with black on both sides and fol- 

 lowed by a narrow pale lilac line indented at vein 1 ; outer line 

 of two dark bronze bands, separated by metallic bluish leaden ; 

 terminal space marbled with black ; terminal line dark bronze, 

 black on both sides and narrowly lilaceous within. Hind 

 wing dark brown, markings in a line along submedian fold ; 

 a submarginal black spot with raised metallic center in a bronzy 

 area, preceded by lilaceous irrorations, then a metallic lilaceous 

 bar, preceded by black, and before this a long black bar bisected 

 by a lilaceous spot. Expanse, 39 mm. Hind tibiae strongly 

 tufted. 



Type, male. No. 19352, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Misantla, Vera 

 Cruz, Mexico, September, 1914 (R. Miiller). 



Near £. delecta Schaus, but without white. 



