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region. Head and thorax light slate color ; collar light crimson ; eyes and antenna' 

 black ; abdomen light crimson ; below, slate color. All the wings below uniform 

 slate color. 



Expands J--jj inch. 



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This species is nearest to E. egletiensis, but is a much slighter insect. 

 In color it is darker, and it lacks the black abdominal spots, as also the 

 white anal tuft so conspicuous in E. cglcnensis. 



Euchsetes scepsiformis u. sp. 



All the wings uniform dark blackish gray, the secondaries transparent from the 

 base to middle of the wing. Head, antenna- and thorax dark gray; eyes black: 

 collar slightly scaled with crimson ; from this along the shoulder to beneath the base 

 of primaries a band of white. Legs dark gray, coxre of first pair crimson. Abdomen 

 bright crimson with black dorsal and subdorsal spots ; beneath dark gray. 



Expands ij inch. 



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This is a well marked species, and easily distinguished from any ol 

 its congeners. It is a robust insect, and the semi-transparent secondaries 

 remind one of the genus Scepsis. 



Spilosoma nigroflava n. sp. 



Primaries, cream white with markings of black placed as follows : four, lateral 

 black dashes, the first and largest near the inner angle along and almost touching the 

 interior margin ; the other three above this, equi-distant from each other and gradually 

 nearing the exterior margin. Two small black dashes in apical region, below which 

 are two dots of same color. In middle area a heavy black dash extending along the 

 Costa below which outwardly are two dots of black, then, below, a heavy dash of black, 

 somewhat of the shape of an irregular arrow-head, the point directed toward the 

 base of wing. Below this two spots, the lower the larger, succeeded below again by 

 a heavy dash of black resting on the interior margin. A small dash of black in the 

 basal region and a few slight spots of same color at the base. Thorax, same color as 

 primaries ; tegulse bordered inwardly with black, outwardly with pale yellow. Head 

 white ; eyes shining slate color ; antennae white above, and black beneath. Legs 

 white, edged with black outwardly at the joints ; tarsi black. Abdomen white, with 

 five large black dorsal spots, with a like number of smaller ones at the sides ; between 

 these rows of spots the abdomen is light yellow ; below, white. Secondaries im- 

 maculate, snow white. Beneath, the whole insect is white, the markings on primaries 

 reproduced. 



Expands ij inch. 



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This species has somewhat the appearance of Seirarclia clio, but while 

 the latter species has the black markings in continuous lateral stripes, 

 these are in 6". nigroflava disconnected. It is a beautiful insect, and quite 

 distinct. 



