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Distribution. — Cuba: Province of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba (Sep- 

 tember), Holguin. 



Four specimens (all known) studied. 



Remarks. — Species named for the late John T. Barnes, old friend, 

 constant companion, and assistant to the late William Schaus. 



LOMUNA, new genus 



Genotype. — Mulona nigripuncta Hampson. 



Labial palpus, antenna, and venation as described in the introduc- 

 tion. 



Male genitalia (pi, 10, fig. 1) with uncus very short and broadly 

 bilobed; gnathos absent; anellus with ventrobasal plate broad and 

 rectangular, entirely fused to harpes and bifurcate at posterior end 

 and with arms very weakly sclerotized and very short, one-eighth or 

 less the length of harpes; transtilla present and partially fused across 

 middle; vinculum with saccus expanded, almost as long as broad and 

 rounded below; aedeagus thick throughout, distally broad and bilobed; 

 ductus ejaculatorius entering anterior end of aedeagus; vesica with 

 numerous scobinations; harpe deeply divided apically into three long 

 and slender arms. 



Female genitalia (pi. 11, fig. 7) with ductus bursa sclerotized, cylin- 

 drical, not at all flattened; bursa copulatrix subspherical, slightly 

 longer than broad and heavily and completely serratulate through 

 middle two-thirds; seventh and eighth sternae not modified and weakly 

 sclerotized (without anterior and posterior genital plates) ; with bilobed 

 invaginated sac on dorsal surface immediately before ovipositor. 



Remarks. — As defined above Lomuna contains a single species known 

 only from Puerto Rico (see remarks on type locality under L. nigri- 

 puncta Hampson). 



LOMUNA NIGRIPUNCTA (Hampson) 



Plate 10, Figure 1, lA; Plate 11, Figure 7 



Alvlona nigripuncta Hampson, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the 

 British Museum, vol. 2, pp. 387, 388, pi. 29, fig. 6, 1900.— Draudt, in Seitz, 

 Gross-schmetterlinge der Erde, vol. 6, p. 252, pi. 29, fig. L 9, 1918, — Strand, 

 in Waguer, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pars 26, p. 732, 1922. — Forbes, Scien- 

 tific survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, vol. 12, pt. 1, p. 33, 1930. — 

 WoLCOTT, Journ. Agr., University of Puerto Rico, vol. 20, No. 1, p. 415, 1936. 



Male. — Habitus somewhat like that of Mulona grisea Hampson but 

 with black spots on forewing more distinct and more nearly round. 

 Palpi dark fuscous except along ventral sm-face, where color is white. 

 Head, antenna, and thorax white, sometimes pale yellow or brown on 

 thorax, Forewing above white with black spots arranged as in grisea 

 but with an additional black spot in base of wing on the base of anal 

 vein. The orange or yellow spot found in the middle of the cell near 



