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the inner line, straight, a little oblique ; median space nearly solidly black, 

 the reniform and orbicular marked by light powderings ; outer line faintly 

 visible by light powdering, dentate-crenulate and excurved over cell ; 

 subterminal and terminal spaces less solidly black than the median space ; 

 subterminal line faint, pale, dentate, and irregular. Hind wing sordid 

 yellowish white, dark along the veins and with a rather broad dark bor- 

 der ; fringe white. Expanse, 28 mm. 



Type, female. No. 19077, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Sabinal, Texas, Novem- 

 ber 28, 1910 (F.C. Pratt). 



Family GEOMETRID/E 



Craspedia mooraria, new species. 



White, tinted with russet ; lines russet brown ; costa of this color for 

 two-thirds; inner and median lines narrow, obscure, wavy, outer line 

 simileir but more distinct, dentate on the veins ; subterminal line diffused ; 

 a row of distinct terminal dots ; discal spot pale, smaJl. Hind wing sim- 

 ilar, lines more diffused ; discal spot larger, white and surrounded by 

 brown. Expanse, 15 mm. 



Type, male, No. 19078, U S. Nat. Mus.; Plantation Mon Repos, 

 Georgetown, British Guiana (H. W. B. Moore). 



Family PYRALID/E 

 Lygropia haroldi, new species. 



Black, slightly lustrous ; fore wing with pale yellow markings, consist- 

 ing of a broad, inner, slightly oblique band, rounded off just below the 

 costa, narrowly connected along the submedian fold to a narrow outer 

 line, which is in-angled on submedian fold, out-angled on median vein 

 and vsadens a little at costa ; a small speck at tornus. Base of hind wing 

 narrowly pale yeDow, just including a dark spot in cell ; narrow yellow 

 marginal meirkings. Venter and legs pale yellow. Expanse, 1 9 mm. 



Type, female. No. 19079, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Plantation Skeldon, 

 Georgetown, British Guiana, November, 1913 (H. W. B. Moore). 



Gonocausta sabinalis, new species. 



Similar to G. zephyralis Led., but the fringe uniform dull brown, not 

 pale yellow with contrasting dark patches ; the basal pale patch of fore 

 wing runs triangularly much farther out. Apical dark patch of hind wing 

 erect. Expanse, 14 mm. 



