line showing above anal angle as a white waved line preceded by olivaceous 
scaling; about middle of costa a triangular purple patch shaded with olivaceous 
and almost connected with dark portion of wing; beyond this a small round 
purple reniform, situated on the olive line, with its upper edge touching the 
white costal portion, ringed with white and with scattered white central scales; 
a broken dark terminal line, preceded by a fine white line; basal portion of 
fringes purple, heavily suffused with white, outer portion pure white. Sec- 
ondaries white, suffused with smoky apically and outwardly. Beneath, primaries 
deep smoky, with white fringes, secondaries white with an elongate smoky 
patch on costa near apex. Expanse 16 mm. 
Hasitat. San Benito, Texas (Mch. 16-23) (G. Dorner). 3 ¢@, 3 Q. 
Types, Coll. Barnes. 
The species is closely related to cretata G. & R., is however 
smaller, with the marginal border to white area much more sharply 
defined and angled. We name the species after Mr. G. Dorner, from 
whom we have received numerous interesting species from our southern 
border. 
TARACHE CURVILINEA sp. noy. (Pl. V, Fig. 12). 
@. Head and thorax pale ochreous, latter with a purplish tinge; primaries, 
basal half to t. p. line whitish, irrorate with brown and purplish scaling, the 
latter strongest in the median area above inner margin; a faint slightly curved 
and inwardly oblique smoky t. a. line; t. p. line white, with strong outward 
angle below costa and then evenly and strongly incurved to beyond middle of 
inner margin; beyond t. p. line the wing is purplish brown, the arcuate portion 
of t. p. line being filled with a deep chocolate brown lunate patch, bordered out- 
wardly slightly with purplish and above inner margin by an oblique white 
streak; a terminal series of dots; fringes dusky. Secondaries hyaline white, 
very slightly ochraceous at apex. Beneath primaries ochreous with darker 
smoky shade towards apex of wing; secondaries hyaline. Expanse, 23 mm. 
Hasitat. Brownsville, Tex. (June 11). San Benito, Tex. (April 1-7) 
(G. Dorner) 2 ¢. Type, Coll. Barnes. 
The species belongs in the terminimaculata group and is evidently 
closely related to cratina Druce (Biol. Cent. Am. Pl. 28, Fig. 26) ; it 
lacks however the dot representing the orbicular, and the basal area of 
primaries is much paler. Our specimens are rather imperfect but 
from the two combined a fairly accurate description can be drawn up. 
HomoceryNnEA gen. nov. (Type H. cleoriformis sp. nov.). 
é. Antennae serrate and fasciculate, 9 antennae ciliate; palpi upturned, 
2nd joint rather flattened laterally and heavily scaled, reaching vertex of head, 
fringed slightly with hair above, 3rd joint long, pointed, smoothly scaled; front 
smooth; thorax clothed with fiat scales, prothorax without crest, metathorax 
