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Hadena discors u. sp. 

 The hind wings are white, with black, distinct, incompletely-broken ter- 

 minal line, fringes faintly interlined, uneven, veins and terminal space 

 slightly dusted with fuscous. The eyes are naked, abdomen tufted at base 

 and thorax on the dorsum ; the antennae are pyramidal, ciliate. Anterior 

 wings reddish-brown and blackish, slightly dusted with ochery scales. The 

 style of ornamentation recalls castanea or the grandis group of Mamestra. 

 A narrow black basal dash, and one below it on internal margin. Lines 

 double, black, indistinct. Anterior line upright, thrice dentate, its outer 

 component line marked with black and more distinct. Median space stained 

 with reddish brown. Claviform moderate, acute, lined in black and con- 

 nected by a black dash with posterior line. Orbicular speckled with ochery, 

 rounded, slightly oblique, rather large. Reniform resembling orbicular in 

 color, with faint interior annulus, upright, extending below median vein, 

 which also shows scattered ochery scales. Posterior line dentate opposite 

 the cell, badly defined superiorly, marked in black on its inner component 

 line on subraedian space opposite the claviform. Subterminal marked by 

 three pale interspacial flecks between veins two and five, a black streak 

 opposite the cell and one below vein two. Terminal space narrow, blackish, 

 fringes dusky brown, finely cut with pale. Thorax with a fine line or collar, 

 tegulse lined with black. Beneath whitish, with distinct black discal marks. 

 The dentate fringes brownish, before them a black interrupted line. The 

 wings show reddish stains. The abdomen is fuscous above, laterally and 

 beneath, reddish or purplish. Expanse 40 mil. 



GORTYNA JUVENILIS n. Sp. 



Eyes naked, front smooth, tibise unarmed, middle pair with rather long 

 scales covering the joint; form slender, wings rather long and narrow, apices 

 acute. Light yellow, ornamentation rather like sera, lines and spots present. 

 All three stigmata concolorous. subequal, claviform smallest, orbicular 

 round, reniform obovate, narrowing inferiorly, where it is touched with 

 white. The linear angulate brown median shade is continuous between the 

 discal spots. In the female the median space is shaded with dusky. Lines 

 single, outer line scalloped on the interspaces. Terminal space darker than 

 the rest of the wing, divided by the fuscous s. t. line which hardly reaches 

 the apices, seeming to reach external margin at vein seven; fringes and ex- 

 ternal margin reddish fuscous. Hind wings dark fuscous, very dark and 

 contrasting in the female, fringes reddish fuscous. Body yellowish, con- 

 colorous with fore wings. Male antennse shortly ciliate, female simple. 

 Beneath both wings yellowish, shaded with reddish fuscous, with faint com- 

 mon exterior line. This species is recognizable from its slender make, the 

 contrast of the fuscous secondaries with their under surface and with the 

 primaries. Expanse 28 to 29 mil. 



Halesidota trigona n. sp. 



By its almost vermilion-red abdomen above, allied to the Californian Ed- 

 wardsii. Fore wings blackish or dark lead color, with scattered red and dark 



