NE W SO UTH A M ERIC A N MO THS—SCHA US. Ill 



Genus GONODONTA Hubner. 

 GONODONTA MARMORATA, new species. 



Bodj^ blackish brown, patagia blackish tipped, collar are\- irrorate; 

 primaries dark brown in median and submedian spaces, pale clay color 

 terminally; basal space confused with brown, purplish and clay color 

 shades, the line lost; transverse anterior and posterior lines limit the 

 dark median space, but are themselves indistinct, though traceable, 

 black, strongly wavy; reniform paler than the ground, constricted, 

 narrowly dark centered; a slender black line before the subterminal, 

 wavy, preceded by a small white space on costa and joined to the dark 

 median space centrally by bluish black; terminal space mottled in 

 brown and purplish on a pale ground, the subterminal line wavy, dark, 

 linear; termenand fringe dark. Secondaries brown -black, disk broadly 

 orange yellow from costa over median nervules. Below blackish brown, 

 primaries with a spot at base and termen lighter, secondaries with the 

 yellow mark enlarged over costa to base. 



Expanse. — -48 mm. 



Habitat . — Coatepec, Mexico. 



Type.—Q^i. No. 9554, U.S.N.M. 



Genus HOMOPYRALIS Grote. 

 HOMOPYRALIS PICTA, new species. 



Head, thorax, and bases of both wings light cream colored, the outer 

 parts of wings densely shaded in with dark brown and purplish; reni- 

 form, a dark bar in a small light space; transverse, anterior, and poste- 

 rior lines obscure in the dark area, narrow, blackish, wavy; subtermi- 

 nal similar, but more decidedly wavy, and followed by a small light 

 space; a round dark blotch on middle of outer margin; fringe spotted. 

 Secondaries with two median dark lines, the outer twice strongly den- 

 tate, the area between powdery brown; discal dot rounded, black; 

 submarginal line faint, wavy, preceded by brown blotches; a crenulate 

 line at base of fringe, which is spotted. Below pale, shaded and pep- 

 pered with brown, without any contrasting pale basal space; a common 

 outer and inner wav}' lines and discal spots, the lines indistinctly 

 doubled. 



Expanse.^^'^ mm. 



Ilahltat. — Jalapa, Mexico. 



Tyjye. ~C^t. No. 9555, U.S.N.M. 



HOMOPYRALIS PANDAMA, new species. 



Pale ocherous, dark olivaceous, tinged and with patches of slightly 

 bronz}^ reddish on disks and submedian fold of both wings; primaries 

 with a broad brown-black subbasal band; orbicular a round dot; two 



