NOTES ON COTTON MOTHS 7 



Anomis fornax Guenee. 



Anomis fornax Guen6e, Spec. Gen. Lep., vi, 398, 1 852. 



This species is readily recognized by the lack of development of 

 secondary sexual characters in the male. The mjJes might eeisily be taken 

 for females. All my specimens are from the Guianas. 



Anomis hemiscopis, new species. 



Male with large fovea at base of costa beneath ; hind tibiae without 

 fringe of hairs. Markings as in >^. fornax Gn. but brighter, redder, with 

 contrasting darker shades. MaJes readily separable from females by the 

 swollen costal base. Expanse, 30-33 mm. 



Cotypes, five males, two females, No. 15397, U. S. N. M., Casa 

 Branca, Rio Janeiro, and Petropolis, Brazil (Schaus collection) ; Peru 

 (Schaus collection) ; Bolivia (Schaus collection), all labeled "fornax Gn." 

 but differing as pointed out. Apparently allied to A. obtusa Dognin and 

 A. albipunctillum Dognin (Het. nouv. de I'Am. du sud, vi, 27, 1912), 

 but I cannot place these species from the descriptions, as the male char- 

 acters are not given. 



Anomis orthopasa, new species. 



Dark brown, the lines straight, pale; inner line almost perfectly 

 straight across the wing from costa slightly outwardly oblique to inner 

 margin ; discal mark an erect pale line ; subterminal shade dark, waved. 

 Expanse, 34 mm. 



Type, female. No. 15398, U. S. N. M., Baracoa, Cuba, Novem- 

 ber, 1902 (W. Schaus). 



A second specimen from Jalapa, Mexico (Schaus collection), is the 

 scime, but with a red shade eJong submedian. This latter may prove a 

 variation of rufescens or eucystica. The species is based on the Cuban 

 example. A. diredilinea Schaus (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), vii, 78, 

 1911) may be this species, but the type is not before me, Mr. Schaus 

 not as yet having deposited it in the National Museum. 



Anomis barata Schaus. 



Anomis barata Schaus, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), vli, 79, 1911. 



This and the six following species have the outer margin of fore wing 

 angled cmd the outer line with a sinus below the reniform. The patagia 

 are modified in the males of some as secondary sexual characters. Of 

 barata I have only the types from Costa Rica. 



