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CARTHARA UMBRATA, new species. 



Male. — Primaries .sordid ocherous in ground ])ut overlaid with red- 

 brown and olivaceous. Base washed with rod-brown; inner line 

 whitish, lilaceous shaded, dentate on median vein, followed by a broad 

 dark-brown olivaceous shaded band; median space of the pale ground 

 color, washed with lilaceous centrall}^; outer line fine, pale, waved in 

 arcs between the veins, preceded b}^ a broad dark band like the inner one, 

 followed above A^ein 4 by an olivaceous brown band, incised on its outer 

 edge above vein 4, squarely' terminated; veins 3 to 6 narrowl}" light 

 yellow; two small superposed dark discal dots; fringe dark red in the 

 subapical excavation. Secondaries ocherous, washed with dark red in 

 patches; mesial lines two, approximate, parallel, slightly liexuous; 

 fringe dark red; inner margin dark red with brown and whitish bars, 

 not strongly relieved. Below dark red-brown ; outer margin of pri- 

 maries violaceous, inner broadly pale yellow; two dark wavy mesial 

 lines on both wings; a discal bar on secondaries, the anal angle broadly 

 dark shaded, the shade cut in two pale arcs by the outer line. 



Female. — Larger, less brightly colored; the outer of the dark bands 

 of primaries is obsolete below vein 4, but its edges persist as waved 

 dark lines. Secondaries overspread with brown. 



Expanse. — Male, 35 mm., female, 48 mm. 



Ilahitat. — Chiriqui, Panama. 



Type.—Q^t. No. 8286, U.S.N.M. 



Family DIOPTID.E. 



Genus LAURON Walker. 

 LAURON ALBIPLAGA, new species. 



Black, with a blue reflection; patagia orange red; a large rounded 

 white subapical spot on primaries, not attaining costa or margin. A 

 broad subventral white band on abdomen. 



E.i'2>anse. — 36 mm. 



JIahitat.- — Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



ry^6.— Cat. No. 8287, U.S.N.M. 



Family NOCTUID.^. 



Genus ERIOPYGA Guenee. 

 ERIOPYGA GRISEIRENA. new species. 



Antenna^ sei-rute and fasiculate. Primaries red-brown, vinous 

 shaded, lighter in basal and outer median spaces; lines clouded, 

 obscure, the subterminal the most distinct, twice arcuate, limiting the 

 destinctly darker terminal space; reniforu] large, powder^^ whitish 

 gra\' filled, dark below, obscurely limited; other .spots ob.solete. Hind 



