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are cinereous with a conspicuous velvety-black 

 triangular spot at the end of the cell. The 

 wings are clouded by dark brown basal, sub- 

 basal, median, and transverse limbal lines, or 

 bands. There is a pale zigzag submarginal 

 line. On the margin at the interspaces there 

 are minute blackish subtriangular spots. 

 The fringes are fuscous, having the cilia at 

 the endsof the nervules slightly paler. The 

 secondaries on the upper side are colored like 

 the primaries and the dark lines and bands 

 of the primaries are produced upon them. 

 There is a dark velvety linear patch of raised 

 scales at the end of the cell. Both wings on 

 the under side are paler than on the upper 

 side, the primaries being darker on the costa 

 and the middle area of the wing. The 

 markings of the upper side reappear upon 

 the under side, but far less diffuse and more 

 sharply defined. Expanse, 25 mm. 



32. P. sex-maciilata. sp. nov. $. The 

 palpi, front, and collar are black. The 

 patagia and upper side of the thorax are pale 

 argillaceous. The upper side of the abdomen 

 is pale fuscous. The lower side of the thorax 

 and abdomen is fuscous. The legs are pale 

 gray, or whitish, margined externally with 

 dark brown. The primaries on the upper 

 side are pale argillaceous with three black 

 subtriangular spots on the costa, and a small 

 annulus at the end of the cell. There are a 

 few obscure and very fine linear marks on 

 the outer 7nargin, and on the inner margin 

 before the outer angle there is a very fine 

 dark brown line. The secondaries on the 

 upper side are uniformly pale fuscous. On 

 the lower side, the primaries are \tTy pale 

 fuscous, narrowly edged with ochraceous on 

 tlie costa above the end of the cell. The 

 secondaries are pale ochraceous clouded with 

 fuscous on the outer margin, with a well 

 defined discal dot at the end of the cell, and 

 an irregularly curved transverse limbal line 

 quite narrow and sharply defined. The mar- 

 gin is marked by a very fine dark marginal 

 line. The fringes are concolorous. Expanse, 

 2 2 m m . 



"^^Tj. P. quadrimacitlata^ sp. " nov. ^. 

 The palpi and front are pale reddish ; the 

 collar is pale chestnut. The upper side of tlie 

 thorax and abdomen is fuscous ; the lower 

 side of the thorax and abdomen is paler. The 

 legs are concolorous with the anterior mar- 

 gins of the tibiae slightly darker. Tlie 

 primaries on the upper side are uniformly 

 pale argillaceous with two large subtrian- 

 gular black spots on the costa, one above the 

 middle of the cell, and the other, which is 

 the larger of the two, above the end of the 

 cell, which it partially covers. The second- 

 aries are uniformly pale argillaceous like the 

 primaries. On the under side, both wings 

 are uniformly very pale fuscous with the 

 costa of the primaries very lightly marked 

 near the apex with pale ochraceous. Ex- 

 panse, 24 mm. 



34. P.octomaculaia,i-p. nox . ^. Palpi, 

 front, and collar dark brown ; upper side of 

 thorax and abdomen argillaceous-gray ; lower 

 side of thorax and abdomen very pale ochra- 

 ceous. Legs slightly darker. Upper side 

 of primaries grayish-argillaceous. Costa 

 marked with three small black subtriangular 

 spots, one just at the base, one over the 

 middle of the cell, and one at the end of the 

 cell. A similar conspicuous black spot is 

 located at the end of the cell on the middle 

 of the wing. The costa before the apex is 

 edged by a fine brown line interrupted by 

 three minute white spots. The outer margin 

 is marked by a series of narrow linear brown 

 lines. There is an obscure waved sub- 

 marginal line bordered outwardly b)- a paler 

 line and an obscure parallel discal line. The 

 fringes are pale fuscous. The secondaries 

 on the upper side are pale fuscous. On the 

 under side the primaries are dark fuscous 

 with an obscure dark mark at the end of the 

 cell. The outermost of the black spots 

 which appear upon the costa on the upper 

 side, reappears faintly on the lower side as 

 also the whitish subapical dots. The second- 

 aries are very pale ochraceous with a dark 

 lunular discal spot, and are crossed by 



