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PSYCHE. 



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of the cell :ind some obscure and incomplete 

 limbal and submarginal dark lines before the 

 apex. The secondaries are paler, and there 

 is a black dot on the cell followed by a very 

 clearly defined dark transverse median line, 

 which is succeeded by two equally dark irreg- 

 ularlv curved parallel transverse limbal lines. 

 Expanse, 32 mm. 



Without having material enough to make a 

 dissection I cannot be absolutely certain of 

 the generic reference in this instance. 



Pexicillaria, Guen. 



20. P. morosa, sp. nov. J. The palpi, 

 front, and upper side of the thorax are dark 

 chocolate brown, the upper side of the abdo- 

 men and the lower side of the thorax and 

 the abdomen are pale chocolate. The legj 

 are concolorous. The primaries are bright 

 chocolate brown, traversed by darker irregu- 

 larly curved and parallel basal, sub-basal, 

 median, limbal, and submarginal lines, of 

 which the limbal line is geminate, and the 

 sub-basal and apical portion of the submar- 

 ginal line and the costal end of the geminate 

 limbal line are very dark and conspicuous. 

 The secondaries are fuscous with the costa 

 lighter testaceous. The fringes are reddish 

 chocolate. The under side of the wings is 

 fuscous with the costa and outer margin of 

 the primaries and the base and inner margin 

 of the secondaries reddish chocolate. Both 

 wings have a small linear mark at the end 

 of the cell; both are traversed by limbal and 

 submarginal lines and the secondaries have 

 in addition a transverse median line. Ex- 

 panse, 29 mm. 



21. P. solitaria, sp. nov. $. The palpi 

 and front are whitish. The upper side of 

 the thorax and abdomen is light brown. 

 The under side of the thorax and abdomen 

 are paler. The legs are concolorous. The 

 primaries are pale reddish fawn. There is 

 a small dark brown spot in the cell and a 

 pale reniform spot at its end. A dark line 



runs from the middle of the costa to the 

 reniform and then sweeps inwardly to the 

 inner margin which it reaches a little be- 

 yond the base. A similar line, but much 

 finer and paler traverses the wmg beyond 

 the cell. The portion of the wing between 

 these two lines is somwhat darker than the 

 rest of the wing, especially near the inner 

 margin. On the costa before the apex is 

 a large triangular brown spot and below 

 it a smaller triangular spot of the same 

 color. The secondaries are fuscous, darkest 

 on the outer margin, and pale gray on the 

 inner margin. On the under side, both 

 wings are pale fulvous, lighter toward the 

 base. The primaries have a few obscure 

 dark marks below the apex, and the second- 

 aries at the anal angle are marked by three 

 or four narrow incomplete dark lines. Ex- 

 panse, 24 mm. 



CALPIDAE 



Rhescipha, Walk. 



22. R. sideros/ic/a, sp. nov. $. The 

 palpi are brown, as also the head, collar, and 

 upper side of thorax and abdomen. The 

 lower side of the thorax and abdomen are 

 whitish. The primaries on the upper side 

 are of the same color as the thorax, pale 

 chestnut-brown, traversed by a darker oblique 

 sub-basal line margined externally by paler, 

 with an obscure discal line at the end of the 

 cell, followed by a curved limbal line, defined 

 internally with paler brown and clouded 

 towards the margins with a darker fuliginous 

 shade, which is accentuated at the outer 

 angle by some rusty red spots pupilled with 

 whitish, forming together a suboval aggrega- 

 tion of lighter colored markings. The sec- 

 ondaries are pale fuscous with an ill-defined 

 whitish spot about the middle of the outer 

 margin. The fringes are paler. On the 

 under side the primaries are pale fuscous, 

 clouded with fuliginous just above the inner 

 margin on the line of the median nerve and 



