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spots in the cell, and a small double one beyond it. Hind wing crimson, 

 with a discal black spot and a broad, irregularly edged terminal border. 

 Expanse, 35 mm. 



Type, female, No. 19075, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Dallas, Texas, June 20, 

 1906(W. A. Hooker). 



Probably a variety of figurata Drury. It looks much like the female 

 of placentia Smith & Abbot ; but the wing seems shorter and broader, 

 the crimson more orange tinted, the termind border of hind wing con- 

 tinuous. 



Family NOCTUID/E 



Schinia navarra, new species. 



Fore wing pale grayish, irrorated with darker; basal space darkly 

 shaded ; inner line pale, in-bent in the cell and slightly dentate on vein I , 

 followed by a dark cloudy claviform and a dark shade on the costa ; 

 orbicular large, round, clouded ; reniform large, smoky black, with deep 

 black edge and centrzJ pale sure ; outer line pale, followed by a black 

 edge, the subterminal space filled in with dark ; subterminal line irregular 

 and dentate, whitish ; terminal line black, wavy ; veins lined with pcJe. 

 Hind wing pale whitish, veins dark ; a large blackish discal mark and 

 even outer border, the latter faintly cut by pale between veins 2-4. 

 Expanse, 32 mm. 



Type, male. No. 19076, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Cotulla, Texas. April 14, 

 1 906 (F. C. Pratt). Also 1 4 specimens with additional localities, Vic- 

 toria, Texas, April 4 (E. A. Schwarz) ; Sabinal. Texas. April 9, 1910 

 (F. C. Pratt) ; Llano. Texas. March 14, 1906 (F. C. Pratt) ; Rio Frio. 

 Texas, May 12, 1 9 1 (F. C. Pratt) ; San Antonio, Texas (J. Jermy) ; 

 Los Angeles. California. 1 889 (Z. Peabody) ; Fresno, California (E. A. 

 Schwztfz). 



This species falls with S. hiundulata Smith by Hampson's tables (Cat. 

 Lep. Phal. B. M., iv, 81, 1 903), but differs obviously. It has been 

 identified by the late J. B. Smith and others as Melicleptria scutosa 

 Schiff., from which it differs in the structure of the claws of the fore 

 tibiae, though somewhat similar superficially. 



Pseudacontia (Leucocnemis) basifugens, new species. 



Head, thorzuc, and base of fore wing soiled ocher-clayey ; the rest of 

 the fore wing black ; fringe ocher-clayey ; basal light area bounded by 



