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beyond the middle ; the last one is the most prominent, but all are vague ; 

 on the middle of the wing near base is a small round white spot, on the 

 middle of the dorsal edge is a large, transverse, kidney-shaped white spot ; 

 at basal third is a similar, somewhat smaller, dorsal white spot, but not 

 touching the edge ; at the end of the cell is a round white spot ; all the 

 white spots are more or less edged with black ; apical part of the wing 

 beyond the cell is yellow without the black reticulation, but vnth two 

 blackish, ill-defined costal spots, the outer of which is diffused into a large 

 triangular dark shade, reaching halfway across the wing. Cilia yellowish 

 white with conspicuous blackish brown pencils alternating with broader 

 white intermediate spaces. Hindvsdng dark fuscous with silvery fuscous 

 costal edge and with apical cilia whitish. Abdomen brownish fuscous 

 above with first joint silvery and with light yellow underside and ami tuft. 

 Legs light yellowish fuscous, tarseJ joints with broad black annulations. 



Alar expauise, 1 2 mm. 



Habitat: Olympus, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. 



Type, Cat. No. 18433, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



This conspicuously colored species is a leaf-miner on Nothocestrum. 

 (O. H. Swezey.) 



A NEW SATURNIAN FROM MEXICO 



{Lepidoptera, Saturniida) 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR 



Copaxa mannana, new species. 



Male : Fore wing falcate ; antennae fully doubly bipectinate, the 

 branches equal. Brown ; costa and collar gray ; fore wing with a slit- 

 shaped hyaline discal patch ; lines faint, purple, the inner irregular, the 

 outer oblique to costa before apex, faintly doubled within. Hind wing 

 rosy red from costa to over cell, except margin ; a large discal ocellus, 

 black, with inner blue powdery crescent, broadly buff-yellow ringed, then 

 a black ring ; two mesial lines, fading out in the pink area, the outer 

 crenulate. Expeinse, 95 mm. 



Female : Fore wing quadrate, the outer margin straight ; antennae 

 shortly singly bipectinate ; yellow, irrorate with gray ; costa and collar 

 gray ; discal hyaline slit small ; lines as in the male, but distinct and 



