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Genus CARIPETA Walker. 



CARIPETA HYPERYTHRATA, new species. 



Fore wing violaceous brown, with broad red streaks on the veins 

 beyond the outer line, separated by white and powdery black ; lines 

 white, edged by dark brown toward the center; inner line oblique 

 with a blunt tooth on median vein; outer line angled at vein 6, in- 

 curved, projecting at vein 4, oblique inward to vein 2, thence outward 

 to margin; discal dot dark brown, surrounded by white, with a 

 brown shade following it; subterminal line represented by brown 

 dashes between the veins. Hind wing translucent, pale at base, bright 

 red outwardly ; a brown discal dot ; a faint outer line, angled a little 

 at vein 2, white at inner margin, red-edged within. Expanse, 39 mm. 



Type.— Male, Cat. No. 21284, U.S.N.M.; Mexico City, Mexico (R. 



Midler ). 



Genus SELENIA Hubner. 



SELENIA GYNAECON, new species. 



Fore wing olive-green in median space, with dense broAvn strigae, 

 blotched and confluent; basal and terminal spaces solidly brown, ex- 

 cept at outer margin below apex; inner line brown, curved, waved, 

 lost in the concolorous strigae ; discal mark slight, concolorous ; outer 

 line red-brown, narrow, from costa before apex to outer fourth of 

 inner margin, bent a little at vein 2 ; some white scales subterminally, 

 forming a double spot above tornus. Hind wing dark brown; a 

 single outer line with a little green showing before it; wing nar- 

 rowly strigose in darker, not contrasting. Expanse, 41 mm. 



Type.— Female, Cat. No. 21285, U.S.N.M. ; Misantla, Mexico, June, 

 1912 (R. Miiller). 



SELENIA EUCORE, new species. 



Fore wing buff-yellow, shaded with brown, especially in median 

 space; scattered brow^n strigae; inner line brown, curved, strigose- 

 wavy; discal dot small, black, elliptical, slightly white centered; 

 outer line brown, running out in a blunt point to subterminal area 

 on vein 7, oblique inward to vein 3, curved, bluntly toothed on sub- 

 median fold ; subterminal line even, regularly arcuate, light brown ; 

 a dark shade and strigae above anal angle. Hind wing with a brown 

 median shade, crossing the black discal dot; outer line brown, even, 

 gently curved; tornal area brown-shaded and strigose; subterminal 

 line as on fore wing. Both wings with the margin scalloped between 

 the veins ; apex of fore wing falcate shortly. Expanse, 37 mm. 



Type.— Feimxle, Cat. No. 21286, U.S.N.M.; Cuernavaca, Mexico, 

 June, 1914 (R. Miiller). 



SELENIA CACOCORE, new species. 



Whitish, thickly irrorate with olive-brown, giving a sordid gray 

 tint ; inner line brown, faint, angled in cell ; discal dot brown, with 



