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on the palpi. Thorax white above with six clusters of red hairs ; abdomen red, white at 

 tip. Fore wings uniformly pale ocherous, almost white, appearing pinkish from the 

 red scales below ; costa very narrowly red at base, dark ocher at apical portion. A 

 straight row of eight small black spots between the veins beyond the middle of the 

 wing, the sixth spot between veins 4 and 5, the seventh opposite the discal cross-vein 

 and the eighth between vein 6 and the stalk of veins 7 to 10. Hind wings red* 

 fringe ocherous. Below both wings as secondaries above ; body largely white ; coxa; 

 and femora red above, tibiae and tarsi ringed with black. Expanse, 27 mm. 



Nearly allied to T. tricolora Fab., which is however an inhabitant 

 of the tropical regions, whereas this comes from the Mexican plateau. 



One male, Nogales, Koebele collector, August 15, 1898, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., type no. 4104. Nogales is a town on the border line be- 

 tween Arizona and Mexico. 



3. T. purens Walk. 



\2>$6—Edebessa purens Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII, 1755. 

 1892 — Sciathos purens Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. I, 540. 



Sir G. F. Hampson has kindly examined Walker's types of the 

 species for me and the generic characters correspond with Trosia. 



4. T. dimas Cram. — 



1775 — Bombyx dimas Cramer, Pap. Exot. I, pi. 59 C. 



1822 — Trosia dimas Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. 196. 



1854 — Chrysauge dimas Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. II, 375. 



1892 — Tdalus (?) dimas Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. I, 198. 



1894 — Sciathos dimas Dognin, Lep. Loja. 173. 



1897 — Sciathos dimas Druce, Biol. Cent.-Am., Lep. Het., II, 440. 



5. T. ribbei Dnice. — 



1898 — Sciathos ribbei Druce, Biol. Cent.-Am. Lep. Het. II, 441, pi. 88, fig. I. 



NEW SPECIES OF SYNTOMIDjE. 



By Harrison G. Dyar. 



Pseudapinconoma elegans Auriv. var. curriei, var. nov. 



Under side of thorax entirely crimson, legs white, femora and basal half of hind 

 tibije crimson above ; abdomen bluish gray, segmental black bands linear, the basal 

 segments with orange hair and the lateral tufts orange ; a dorsal series of crimson dots. 

 Wings as in elegans, but the hyaline patches between veins 2 and 6 large and diffuse, 

 reaching nearly to the termen, with ill defined outer border. 



Two males, Mt. Coffee, Liberia (R. P. Currie). U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., type no. 4247. 



