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  OF 
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  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  vol.44. 
  

  

  darker 
  than 
  the 
  ground, 
  moderate, 
  narrowly 
  white-edged 
  without; 
  

   outer 
  line 
  black, 
  slender, 
  tremulous, 
  obscure, 
  excurved 
  centrally, 
  with 
  

   a 
  small 
  black 
  spot 
  within 
  above 
  vein 
  4, 
  narrowly 
  white-marked 
  on 
  

   costa; 
  subterminal 
  line 
  distinct, 
  outcurved 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  forming 
  two 
  

   inward 
  arcs, 
  limiting 
  the 
  dark 
  median 
  space, 
  but 
  scarcely 
  itself 
  a 
  line; 
  

   black 
  shadings 
  from 
  the 
  projection 
  to 
  the 
  outer 
  margin, 
  completing 
  

   the 
  lower 
  arc 
  and 
  cutting 
  off 
  a 
  lunate 
  space 
  around 
  tornus, 
  which 
  is 
  

   purplish 
  shaded 
  and 
  marked 
  with 
  a 
  small 
  white 
  spot 
  in 
  the 
  submedian 
  

   space; 
  margin 
  crenulate. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  colored 
  like 
  the 
  fore 
  wing, 
  with 
  

   many 
  fine 
  wavy 
  transverse 
  blackish 
  lines; 
  submarginal 
  line 
  curved, 
  

   cutting 
  oft' 
  a 
  broad 
  lunate 
  space 
  on 
  the 
  margin, 
  itself 
  brown, 
  double, 
  

   the 
  marginal 
  space 
  lightened 
  with 
  purplish. 
  In 
  the 
  female 
  the 
  light 
  

   purplish 
  shades 
  are 
  absent, 
  their 
  places 
  being 
  taken 
  by 
  blackish 
  shades 
  

   bordering 
  the 
  lunate 
  areas. 
  Expanse, 
  45 
  mm. 
  

  

  Cotypes. 
  — 
  Three 
  males, 
  three 
  females. 
  No. 
  14516, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  Mi- 
  

   santla, 
  Mexico, 
  January 
  and 
  September, 
  1911 
  (R. 
  Miiller). 
  

  

  Subfamily 
  NOCTTJINJ^TC. 
  

  

  Genus 
  CAMPOMETRA 
  Guen^e. 
  

  

  CAMPOMETRA 
  DISTILLA, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Thorax 
  dark, 
  blacldsh, 
  the 
  disk 
  intermixed 
  with 
  white 
  scales, 
  the 
  

   collar 
  brownish 
  in 
  front. 
  Fore 
  wing 
  with 
  the 
  ground 
  color 
  gray, 
  

   with 
  a 
  slight 
  olivaceous 
  tint, 
  overspread 
  with 
  blackish 
  shades; 
  base 
  

   darkly 
  shaded, 
  the 
  subbasal 
  line 
  black, 
  fine, 
  dentate, 
  relieved 
  by 
  nar- 
  

   row 
  lighter 
  shades 
  ; 
  inner 
  Ime 
  similar, 
  the 
  ground 
  color 
  appearing 
  on 
  

   both 
  sides 
  of 
  it; 
  orbicular 
  a 
  black 
  dot; 
  mesial 
  Ime 
  black, 
  irregular, 
  

   shaded 
  toward 
  base 
  and 
  with 
  an 
  outward 
  duplication, 
  w^hich 
  is 
  dis- 
  

   tinctly 
  present 
  on 
  the 
  right 
  wing 
  of 
  the 
  specimen 
  and 
  not 
  on 
  the 
  

   other; 
  reniform 
  marked 
  by 
  a 
  white 
  speck 
  on 
  each 
  of 
  the 
  four 
  corners, 
  

   the 
  two 
  outer 
  ones 
  joined 
  by 
  a 
  white 
  lunule; 
  a 
  blackish 
  rounded 
  

   patch 
  on 
  costa 
  above, 
  marked 
  with 
  white 
  before 
  and 
  behuid, 
  the 
  outer 
  

   followed 
  by 
  blacldsh 
  and 
  another 
  white 
  streak; 
  other 
  line 
  slender, 
  

   black, 
  dentate, 
  followed 
  by 
  a 
  bluish-black 
  dentate 
  shade; 
  a 
  light 
  

   shade 
  of 
  the 
  ground 
  color 
  tlu-ough 
  middle 
  of 
  wing; 
  subterminal 
  Ime 
  

   dentate, 
  black, 
  with 
  an 
  outward 
  shaded 
  duplication; 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  black 
  

   dashes 
  close 
  to 
  the 
  margm 
  preceded 
  by 
  white 
  specks; 
  a 
  terminal 
  

   wavy 
  black 
  Ime 
  followed 
  by 
  white 
  specks 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  fringe. 
  

   Hind 
  wing 
  blackish, 
  solidly 
  black 
  on 
  costal 
  third 
  with 
  a 
  bronzy 
  

   luster; 
  several 
  series 
  of 
  black 
  and 
  gray 
  specks 
  over 
  the 
  chsk; 
  a 
  black 
  

   dentate 
  subterminal 
  line 
  with 
  outward 
  duplication, 
  not 
  crossing 
  

   costal 
  third; 
  terminal 
  markings 
  as 
  on 
  fore 
  wing. 
  Expanse, 
  48 
  mm. 
  

  

  Type. 
  — 
  Female, 
  No. 
  14436, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  Misantla, 
  Mexico, 
  August, 
  

   1911 
  (R. 
  Miiller). 
  

  

  