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Genus PHRICODIA Hubner. 

 PHRICODIA BAROMA, new species. 



J/tt/t^ ^Primaries brown ])uff, incompletely shaded in blackish, ter- 

 minated in intravenular rounded arcs at position of subterminal line; 

 a round ])lack discal dot faintly outlined in gray; base red brown, lim- 

 ited by an outwardly oblique white line. Secondaries reddish to the 

 disk, margin buff l)rown; basal hairs brighter red; discal dot and 

 curved mesial line dark brown, followed by a pinkish space and abroad 

 dark-brown outer band. Underneath the primaries have a mesial 

 whitish shade and dark subterminal band, both faint; secondaries 

 similarly marked, more distinctly. 



Female. — Primaries with distinct inner and outer lines, dark brown, 

 the former angled subcostally, edged on one side with whitish; discal 

 dot brown, faint. Secondaries paler red than the male, the bands dif- 

 fused and moved nearer the outer margin. Abdomen ochraceous 

 brown with black segmental bands and long white hairs. 



Expanse. — Male, 90 mm.; female, 115 mm. 



Hahitat. — 



Type.—OAX.. No. 9466, U.S.N.M. 



The specimens were received from Staudinger as '"'' Dirphia calchas 

 Stoll.'^ 



Genus COPAXA Walker. 



COPAXA RUFINANS, new species. 



Head brown. Collar gray; thorax reddish. Abdomen light brown. 

 Primaries costa gray for over one-half from base; from base to beyond 

 cell the wing is reddish, darkest in cell and above it; a curved black 

 antemcdial line in cell, and an oblique black line below it, angled on 

 submedian; apical space and at inner angle dull brown; some lilacine 

 on costa at apex; the outer line dark brown from vein T near margin to 

 near middle of inner margin, preceded below vein 3 b}' a line lunular 

 dark line; outer margin broadly lilacine; a tine hyaline streak at end 

 of cell edged with black and yellow. Secondaries dull brown; a 

 straight black antemedial line; a spot at end of cell as on fore wings; 

 a broad postmedial reddish shade followed b}' dentate black line, and 

 then by a narrow reddish shade; the outer margin shaded with reddish. 



Expanse. — 108 mm. 



Habitat. — Orizaba, Mexico. 



Type.— C'At. No. 9467, U.S.N.M. 



COPAXA MARONA, new species. 



Head dark l)rown. Collar gray; thorax and abdomen dai'k fawn. 

 Wings grayisii fawn. Primaries: costa gray to beyond middle; cell 

 light reddish brown crossed by a black line; an antemedial black line 



