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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  vol. 
  44. 
  

  

  SialDfamily 
  PHYCITIN^E. 
  

  

  Genus 
  MELITARA 
  Walker. 
  

   MELITARA 
  PARABATES, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Head 
  and 
  thorax 
  dark 
  gray, 
  intermixed 
  with 
  blackish 
  scales; 
  abdo- 
  

   men 
  whitish, 
  the 
  segments 
  gray 
  dorsally. 
  Fore 
  wing 
  light 
  gray, 
  a 
  

   little 
  shaded 
  with 
  brownish 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  half 
  ; 
  some 
  blackish 
  shading 
  

   at 
  base; 
  inner 
  line 
  remote 
  from 
  base, 
  black, 
  double, 
  dentate, 
  the 
  

   outer 
  line 
  the 
  most 
  distinct, 
  with 
  a 
  long 
  tooth 
  in 
  cell 
  and 
  below 
  median 
  

   vein; 
  a 
  blackish 
  shade-band 
  mesially 
  below 
  cell; 
  discal 
  mark 
  of 
  two 
  

   joined 
  dots; 
  subcostal 
  veins 
  above 
  the 
  cell 
  black-lined; 
  outer 
  line 
  

   near 
  the 
  margin, 
  black, 
  strongly 
  dentate, 
  indistinctly 
  doubled 
  out- 
  

   wardly, 
  an 
  mward 
  tooth 
  opposite 
  discal 
  mark, 
  smaller 
  teeth 
  on 
  the 
  

   discal 
  venules, 
  an 
  inward 
  tooth 
  on 
  vein 
  1; 
  veins 
  in 
  terminal 
  space 
  

   dark-lined; 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  terminal 
  black 
  dots. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  white, 
  the 
  apex 
  

   tipped 
  with 
  gray. 
  Expanse, 
  39 
  mm. 
  

  

  Type.— 
  Yem&le, 
  No. 
  14446, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  Cerritos, 
  San 
  Luis 
  Potosi, 
  

   Mexico, 
  August, 
  1911 
  (R. 
  Miiller). 
  

  

  Genus 
  EUZOPHERA 
  Zeller. 
  

   EUZOPHERA 
  GRISELDA, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Dark 
  blackish 
  gray, 
  without 
  any 
  reddish 
  tint; 
  lines 
  far 
  out, 
  the 
  

   inner 
  at 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  wing, 
  whitish, 
  edged 
  with 
  dark 
  gray 
  toward 
  

   each 
  other, 
  the 
  inner 
  a 
  little 
  irregular 
  and 
  strongly 
  incurved 
  at 
  sub- 
  

   median, 
  the 
  outer 
  finely 
  subdentate, 
  excurved 
  centrally 
  and 
  inward 
  

   on 
  submedian; 
  discal 
  mark 
  squarish, 
  white. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  wliitish, 
  

   shaded 
  with 
  fuscous 
  along 
  the 
  veins 
  and 
  in 
  a 
  narrow 
  marginal 
  band. 
  

   Expanse, 
  26 
  mm. 
  

  

  Cotypes. 
  — 
  Two 
  females. 
  No, 
  14551, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  Tehuacan, 
  Mexico, 
  

   September, 
  1911 
  (R. 
  Miiller). 
  

  

  EUZOPHERA 
  IMMORELLA, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Fore 
  wing 
  rather 
  dark 
  gray, 
  powdered 
  with 
  black; 
  inner 
  liae 
  black, 
  

   produced 
  outward 
  into 
  a 
  tooth 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  the 
  costal 
  segment 
  

   forming 
  an 
  oblique 
  thick 
  band; 
  discal 
  mark 
  of 
  two 
  dots 
  conjoined 
  

   by 
  their 
  inner 
  angles; 
  outer 
  line 
  double, 
  black, 
  oblique, 
  slightly 
  crenu- 
  

   late 
  and 
  \\dth 
  an 
  inward 
  angle 
  opposite 
  the 
  discal 
  mark. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  

   whitish, 
  semihyaline, 
  tinged 
  mth 
  fuscous 
  on 
  veins 
  and" 
  margin. 
  

   Expanse, 
  25 
  mm. 
  

  

  Cotypes.— 
  Two 
  females, 
  No. 
  15237, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  Tehuacan, 
  Mexico, 
  

   July, 
  1912 
  (R. 
  Miiller); 
  Oaxaca, 
  Mexico 
  (Schaus 
  collection), 
  the 
  

   latter 
  labeled 
  " 
  Euzophera 
  sp., 
  not 
  in 
  B. 
  M." 
  in 
  the 
  writing 
  of 
  Sir 
  

   G. 
  F. 
  Hampson. 
  

  

  