ae 
course of procedure would leave the generic name Miesa WIk. stand- 
ing, with Enaentia Zell. as a synonym, otherwise both would fall before 
Eustixis Hbn. which is sufficiently distinct from Eustixia Hbn. to 
warrant its retention. 
With Dyar’s synopsis of species we cannot agree; in the first place 
he separates subfervens Wlk. and psammitis Zell. on the ground that 
in the former the basal 2/3 of inner margin of primaries is without 
brown streaks; if however we turn to the original description we find 
stated “fore wings white with many elongate brown points” no mention 
being made of their absence from any portion of the wing. Dyar’s 
diagnosis is evidently based on Stretch’s figure (Zyg. and Bomb. N. 
Am. Pl. 7, fig. 17) and not on Walker’s description. Stretch’s figure 
represents a form unknown to us; it may be either an aberrant speci- 
men of subfervens or a very worn one in which a portion of the brown 
scaling has been rubbed off. We consider that subfervens Wlk. and 
psammutis Zell. (Pl. IX, Fig. 13) are synonyms, just as stated by 
Grote (Buff. Bull. II, 152), who had examined Walker's type. Further 
Dyar unites igninix Wlk. and crassinervella Zell.; Zeller’s figure 
(Verh. Zool. bot. Ges. Wien. XXII, 563, Pl. III, fig. 27) shows the 
costal margin of primaries broadly and strongly suffused with dark 
gray; this is not mentioned in Walker's description nor is it present in 
any specimens of igninix (Pl. IX, Fig. 15) we have seen from Florida, 
the type locality. We have seen nothing to correspond with crassiner- 
vella, but in view of the difference in type localities consider that the 
names should be kept separate; they probably at least represent geo- 
grapical races. We suggest therefore the following synonymy. 
subfervens WIk. 
psammutis Zell. 
igninix WIk. 
crassinervella Zell. 
We have recently received from Texas two further apparently 
new species which we characterize as follows :— 
M. BASISTRIGA sp. nov. (PI. IX, Figs. 11, 12.) 
Palpi brick-red, darker towards apex; head and thorax white, the groove 
of demarcation between the two being finely marked with red, this line extend- 
ing across the base of the patagia and along the basal portion of costa; meso- 
thorax with one central and two lateral red spots; abdomen brick red with an 
ochreous ventral stripe; pectus and legs red; primaries rather shiny white with 
a short red basal streak just below costa and two semi-parallel rows of deep red 
