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bands are a few pale blue metallic scales. Caudal tuft black, 

 with the centre beneath yellow. Palpi golden yellow. Coxae, 

 femorae, and basal half of tibiae steel black, the rest of the legs 

 golden yellow, banded with black. The yellow of the legs is of a 

 deeper shade than that of the abdominal band. 



Exp. wings. 14 m.m. 



I S. Georgia. (Morrison.) 



Type. Coll. E. L. Graef. 



The reddish orange antennae, and the blue metallic scales, 

 will serve to distinguish this pretty species from its nearest allies, 

 C. Pyralidifornis^ Wlk., and C. Ajireopurpmira, Hy. Ed. 



Carmenta Minuta. n. sp. 

 ^Allied to C. Pyralidiformis, Wlk., but differing greatly^ in 

 size, as well as in other characters. The fore wings are purplish, 

 with a golden reflection. The fringes of both wings are brown. 

 Antennae black above, yellowish below. Collar pale yellow. 

 Abdomen with third, fifth and seventh segments narrowly edged 

 with pale yellow. Caudal tuft wholly black. Palpi blackish 

 above, golden yellow beneath. Tibiae and tarsi golden yellow, 

 regularly banded with black. 



Exp. wings. 8 m.m. 



1 $. Georgia. (Morrison.) 

 Type. Coll. F. Tepper. 



The smallest species of this section of the family known to 

 me. 



\ Carmenta Sanborni. n. sp. 



Bronze black. Fore wings with very minute vitreous space 

 beyond cell. Beneath they are cream yellow for about their 

 basal half, the yellow being flecked with brown scales. Palpi, 

 fore femora, and the posterior edge of fourth and sixth abdomi- 

 nal segments, yellowish white. '- 



Exp. wings. 8 m.m. 



2 ^. I ?. Andover, Mass. (F.G.Sanborn.) 

 Types. Coll. Boston Soc. Natural History. 

 Carmenta Fraxini. n. sp. 



Wholly bronze black. Fore wings with a very small vitreous 

 dash near base, and a bright orange discal dot at extremity of 

 cell. Costal margin greenish black, a purplish tint on the pos- 

 terior margin. Hind wings vitreous, rather narrowly margined, 

 with a bunch of whitish hairs at their base. Under side of wings 

 a little more golden than the upper. Antennae, palpi, femora, 

 tibiae and tarsi, brownish black. Abdomen with no trace of 

 band, except on posterior margin of fourth segment beneath, 

 which is pale yellow. Caudal tuft small, brownish beneath, black 

 above. 



Exp. wings. 16 m.m. 



I $. Washington, D. C. (C. V. Riley.) 



