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margin below it are broadlj whitish. On 

 the under side the primaries are pale cine- 

 reous, shading into shining stramineous on 

 the inner margin. There is a conspicuous 

 blacli angulated mark at the end of the cell, 

 followed by a very faint transverse line run- 

 ning from the costa perpendicular to the inner 

 maigin. This is followed by a more sharply 

 defined, regularly crenulate, transverse limbal 

 line, beyond which about the middle of the 

 margin is a broad obscurely defined sooty 

 circular mark. The outer margin near the 

 apex is pale. The secondaries are cinereous, 

 profusely irrorated with dark brown spots. 

 There is a well defined small circular spot at 

 the end of the cell, followed by sharply 

 defined and regularly crenulate transverse 

 median, transverse limbal, and transverse 

 submarginal lines, of which the transverse 

 limbal lines seem most sharply defined. The 

 margin near the extremities of the median 

 nervule is clouded with dark brown. Ex- 

 panse, 55 mm. 



MiNuciA, Moore. 



46. M. despecta, sp. nov. $. Palpi red- 

 dish. Front, collar, and thorax fawn. 

 Upper side of abdomen pale fuscous; lower 

 side of thorax and abdomen light gray. Legs 

 darker. Primaries fawn. There are two 

 conspicuous apical spots below the costa, 

 the lowermost of which is the largest. Both 

 are margined externally by a fine pale line, 

 and they constitute the apical end of a series 

 of fine submarginal linear markings. In 

 addition there is a transverse linear brown 

 line at the base. This line is very short. It 

 is followed by a transverse sub-basal line, 

 which runs from the costa a third of its 

 distance from the base obliquely to the inner 

 margin near the base. Beyond this line at 

 the end of the cell is a narrow black linear 

 mark; beyond the cell, there is a transverse 

 limbal line acutely angulated just below the 

 costa and produced obliquely from the costa 

 in a straight line to the inner margin about 

 its middle. The inner margin is narrowly 



edged with dark brown scales. The seconda- 

 ries are fuscous, darker on the outer third, 

 tipped with w-hite on the outer angle. The 

 wings on the under side are pale gray with 

 the outer third of the primaries, and of the 

 secondaries until just before the anal angle, 

 clouded with fuliginous. Both -wings have 

 the costa near the base slightly tinged with 

 ochraceous. The inner margins of both 

 wings are paler. Expanse, 50 mm. 



47. J\I. David, sp. nov. $. Palpi fuscous. 

 Front and upper side of thorax ferruginous. 

 Upper side of abdomen fuscous. Lower side 

 of thorax and abdomen pale fuscous. 

 Legs dark fuscous. Primaries ferruginous, 

 slightly darker on the inner margin, and 

 sparingly irrorated with pale brownish 

 scales. At the end of the cell is an oblong 

 discal spot of darker brown. These wings 

 are crossed by obscure and irregularly curved 

 transverse sub-basal and transverse limbal 

 lines and by an irregularly curved series of 

 pale greenish submarginal markings, shaded 

 externally and internally with fuscous. In 

 some specimens these markings are almost 

 entirely fuscous. There is a dark subapical 

 shade. The secondaries are dark fuscous 

 with the costa whitish, shining. The fringes 

 are paler, inclining to whitish at the outer 

 angle. On the under side both wings are 

 very pale shining fuscous, slightly darker on 

 the cell, and with the outer third broadly 

 blackish, the nervules, which are lighter in 

 color, being distinctly defined upon the 

 darker ground. The fringes are pale. 

 Expanse, 55 mm. 



4S. M. prodiicta, sp. nov. $. Allied to 

 the preceding species, but at once distin- 

 guished from it by the form of the seconda- 

 ries, which have the outer margin strongly 

 produced opposite the end of the cell. The 

 color is furthermore prevalently darker, and 

 the under side of the secondaries is bright 

 tawnv-ochraceous. The expanse of wing is 

 also greater, being 63 mm. Habitat Benita. 



