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[June-Sept. 18^4. 



the secondaries in the form of a pale limbal 

 band, defined by a minutely crenulate trans- 

 verse limbal line. This band is much paler 

 on the secondaries than on the primaries, in 

 some specimens being almost white. The 

 submarginal area of both wings is marked 

 with minutely crenulated and reduplicated 

 chocolate-brown lines. The margin is indi- 

 cated in both wings by minute transverse 

 blackish markings, succeeded by a fine pale 

 line. The fringes are obscurely checkered 

 with pale and dark chocolate. On the under 

 side, the wings are obscure stone-gray, the 

 basal third in both being darker than the outer 

 two-thirds. Both wings have a small black- 

 ish discal dot at the end of the cell; both 

 are crossed by regular curved transverse 

 limbal and submarginal bands. The prima- 

 ries are marked by a pale whitish spot on 

 the costa just before the black discal dot at 

 the end of the cell. The margins fringed as 

 on the upper side. Expanse, iS mm. 



S7. M. lat/iraea, sp. nov. $. Closely 

 allied to the preceding species, but smaller 

 and with the outer portion of the primaries 

 and the outer two-thirds of the secondaries 

 uniformly dark chocolate-brown. The broad 

 costal band of chalky-white in the primaries 

 extends across the secondaries, covering 

 their base, the upper side of the thorax and 

 the anterior end of the abdomen being like- 

 wise chalky-white. This style of marking 

 is characteristic of the genus. There is a 

 very obscure trace of a transverse limbal 

 line on the primaries continued across the 

 secondaries. Otherwise there is no marking 

 on the upper surface, except a few blackish 

 and exceedingly minute dots on the costa of 

 the primaries, in some specimens wholly 

 wanting. On the under side, both wings 

 are obscure stone-gray with an obscure 

 discal dot at the end of the cell. Expanse, 

 15 mm. 



T.^TORHINI..\, Butl. 



SS. T. fuscosa, sp. nov. $. Head and 

 upper side of thorax and abdomen dark fus- 



cous, pectus brown. Lower side of thorax 

 and abdomen whitish. Legs concolorous 

 with the anterior edges of the femora and 

 tibiae in the first two pairs rich chestnut- 

 brown. The primaries are fuscous. Beyond 

 the base there is in the cell a translucent 

 white spot, beyond which is a straight trans- 

 verse dark line, margined internally by paler 

 gray. At the end of the cell is a linear 

 translucent mark, and beyond it a broad 

 black transverse limbal line, curved just 

 below the costa, and terminating a little 

 beyond the middle of the inner margin. 

 This dark line is defined outwardly by a 

 paler gray line. The inner margin near 

 the outer angle is edged with blackish scales. 

 The secondaries have an oval translucent 

 white spot at the end of the cell. Running 

 from the anal angle toward the costa, which 

 it does not quite reach, is a black line, 

 defined outwardly by a narrow white line. 

 The fringes just before the anal angle are 

 whitish. On the under side, both primaries 

 and secondaries are fuscous, laved with 

 whitish near the base and upon the inner 

 margin of the secondaries. The spots of 

 the upper surface reappear but the trans- 

 verse lines only reappear upon the second- 

 aries. Expanse, 33 mm. 



I refer this species to Mr. Butler's genus, 

 with which the structure of the palpi, the 

 long and heavily ciliated antennae of the 

 male, and the form of the legs show it to 

 agree. Thus far I have no female specimen. 

 There is quite a dissimilarity in this genus 

 between tlie male and the female. 



Tract.v, Saalm. 



89. T. geomeiroides, sp. nov. ? . Allied 

 to T. alboociilala, Saalm., from which it 

 may at once be distinguished by the absence 

 of the white spot in the primaries, which is 

 replaced by a black spot; by the absence of 

 the submarginal ray-like markings on the 

 nervules ; and by the fact that the transverse 

 median line on the secondaries is not angu- 

 lated below the costa. On the under side 



