spots crossing the wings before and after the middle; the antemedial row con- 
sists of 3 spots, forming a rather rigid inwardly oblique line, one spot in the 
cell and the other two below the fold and often more or less conjoined; the 
postmedial row is parallel to outer margin and is formed by a spot beyond cell 
and three spots extending obliquely from fold towards inner margin; secondaries 
pale brick-red with whitish fringes. Beneath both wings brick-red, paler towards 
inner margin of secondaries. Expanse ¢ 19 mm., Q 22 mm. 
Hasitat. San Benito, Texas (Mar., May, Sept.), Brownsville, Tex. (G. 
Dorner). 4 2,5 9. Types, Coll. Barnes. 
We have an old specimen of this species from Texas labelled by 
Dr. Dyar subfervens Wlk.; it differs however from this species in 
lacking the brown streaks of primaries and in having a red basal streak 
below costa; in rubbed specimens this latter is often not apparent. 
M. ATROLINEA sp. nov. (PI. IX, Figs. 9, 10.) ; 
Palpi blackish, red at base; head and thorax white, vertex of head broadly 
red; base and tips of patagia black; anterior portion of mesothorax and posterior 
portion of metathorax black; abdomen red with broad ochreous ventral band, 
legs red outwardly, ochreous inwardly, fore and mid tibiae and tarsi and hind 
tarsi blackish; primaries shiny white; base of costa and a short subcostal streak 
at base of wing black; an antemedial oblique broken black line consisting of a 
streak in the cell, another above the fold and a third between fold and inner 
margin; a postmedial black line, slightly broken and parallel to outer margin, 
consisting of an isolated spot beyond cell and a streak extending from origin of 
vein 6 to just above inner margin; a faint black spot at anal angle; secondaries 
pale brick-red with whitish fringes. Beneath brick-red. Expanse ¢ 23 mm. 
Hapitat. San Benito, Texas (May, Sept.). 8 ¢, 4 9. Types, Coll. 
Barnes. 
Easily recognized by the black almost continuous lines in place 
of the spots of allied species. 
