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GLAPHYRIA BASIFLAVALIS sp. nov. (Pl. IV, Fig. 12). 
Palpi and thorax white, the former ringed with yellow-brown, the latter 
sprinkled with yellow; primaries white, heavily shaded with smoky brown, 
so that very little of the ground color is visible; a pale yellow dash from base 
of wing to antemedial line through fold; anterior lines evenly rounded, pale, 
edged with smoky and with light brown shading before and after on costa; 
a slight dark discal spot; postmedial line bent outwards around cell, followed 
on costa by light brown shading which tends to deepen and form a quadrate 
spot opposite cell; two white triangular patches on terminal border, one below 
apex, the other above the fold; fringes brownish, slightly cut by white. Sec- 
ondaries smoky, paler towards base and inner margin with faint postmedial 
line, angled inwards at vein 2; basal half of fringe brown, outer portion 
whitish, slightly sprinkled with brown scales; long white fringes at anal angle. 
Beneath primaries smoky, base of wing above inner margin white, apex 
brown; slight white dashes along outer margin; fringes checkered brown 
and white; secondaries white with brownish shading along costa and terminal 
border, a brown discal dot, postmedian curved line and terminal dots, fringes 
as above. Expanse II-I14 mm. 
Hasitat. Everglade, Fla.; Chocoloskee, Fla.; San Benito, Texas. 6 
spec. Type, Coll. Barnes. 
None of our specimens are very perfect but the yellow basal 
dash seems sufficiently characteristic to distinguish the species from 
any described form. There is a tendency for veins Io and 11 of 
primaries to entirely coalesce. 
SYLEPTA MASCULINALIS sp. nov. (PI. II, Fig. 10). 
@. Antennae with a strong flattened tuft of scales on inner side of 
basal joint; fore tibiae very short, broadened apically, with tuft of hair; base 
of primaries with slight costal tuft of scales on upper side; primaries deep 
shiny smoky-brown, crossed by two pale yellow lines; the anterior line is 
evenly rounded outwardly, edged outwardly with darker shade-line attaining 
inner margin 1/3 from base; orbicular and reniform two elongate black spots 
separated by a quadrate patch of pale whitish ochre which does not extend 
either above or below the spots; t. p. line expanded to small patch on costa, 
curved evenly outward to vein 3, then strongly elbowed inwardly to near base 
of vein 2, then again straight and slightly waved to inner margin 2/3 from 
base, edged inwardly by a dark shade; dark terminal shade-line and pale basal 
line to slightly checkered fringes. Secondaries slightly deeper in color than 
primaries, t. p. line continued across wing, slightly waved, with strong inward 
bend along vein 2; dark dash in cell; terminal line and fringes as on primaries. 
Beneath much paler than above with maculation indistinctly visible. 
