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space iit its base above. Secondaries greyish brown. Below oreyish 

 brown, the secondaries with a faint discal dot and outer line. 



Kf-jHOtSt. — 26 mm. 



Ilahitat. — Sao Paulo, Brazil. 



Type.—(C^t. No. 9581, U.S.N.M. 



TORTRICODES DULCENA, new species. 



Very dark purplish brown; outer line pale, faint, limiting- a dark 

 brown shade in median space which tills the space irreg'ularly. but is 

 hardly relieved from the ground color, except next the outer line: 

 Nubmarginal line starts from costa subapically in a light yellowish 

 apical shade, forms a long rounded projection and retreats behind the 

 marginal incision, faintly traceable to inner margin; the projection is 

 filled by a dark brown spot and a smaller one rests on the base on the 

 incision with a slight reddish discoloration beyond. Secondaries black, 

 a long elliptical white space ovei' cell and below, relieving the median 

 vein and origins of viens 2 and 3 as narrow black lines. Below pri- 

 maries greyish, the apical testaceous space repeated, enlarged: second- 

 aries as above, but grey irrorate, the white discal space encroached on 

 tiy a dark discal dot. 



E.vpanst. — 27 mm. 



Hahltat. — Castro, Parana. Brazil. 



J}//>6.— Cat. No. 9582, U.S.N.M. 



Genus MEGACHYTA Grote. 

 MEGACHYTA NOLUALIS, new species. 



Light purplish l)rown: lines brown, tine, dentate, not much bent: a 

 })rown median shade from the dark cloud}' reniform. which is centered 

 by a slender pale yellow line: submarginal line starts in a pale yellow 

 streak from costa, then becomes wavy and obsc -re, surrounded l)y a 

 dark shade; a terminal black crenulate line. Secondaries with faint 

 discal dot and dark outer line, the outer area darker shaded; su1)mar- 

 ginal line pale, diffused; terminal line as on primaries. Below paler, 

 discal dot and dark mesial line and pale submarginal line repeated on 

 both wings. 



KrjKUiSt. — 20 mm. 



Htihitat. — Orizaba, Mexico. 



r^7>..— Cat. No. 9583, U.S.N.M. 



MEGACHYTA SABULAREA, new species. 



Primaries with the basal space blackish brown, twice indented: inner 

 half of median space whitish grey; outer half of this space smoky 

 brown, reddish, in an elliptical area representing the reniform: trans- 

 verse posterior line black, coarsely dentate: subterminal space black- 



