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PALTHIS CALCALIS, new species. 



Outer marg-in of ])riiiiarie.s with a prominent angle; purplish brown, 

 dark, lines not well defined; transverse anterior dark wav}-; a dark 

 median shade; reniform a narrow reddish lunule with brown edge; 

 subterminal line wavy, pale j^ellowish, broken; a terminal row of 

 brownish dots. Secondaries pale at base, dark at margin; a mesial 

 dark line, clouded; a submarginal pale line cutting the dark area. 

 Below the disk of secondaries paler, the lines very faintly repeated, on 

 the primaries the submarginal forming a row of reddish blotches, dis- 

 tinct and e;ilarged opposite the subapical incision. 



Krpdn-st. — 23 mm. 



Hah'ttat. — Orizaba, Mexico. 



7}//>^.— Cat. No. 9600, U.S.N.M. 



Genus MASTIGOPHORUS Poey. 

 MASTIGOPHORUS PANDES, new species. 



Male palpi recurved, long* enough to reach to end of abdomen. Dark 

 purplish brown, lines blackish, not strongly relieved; transverse ante- 

 rior shaded; median shade from reniform to margin; posterior slender, 

 irregularly denticulate; subterminal irregular, broadlj' shaded inward; 

 reniform a dot, orbicular a narrow lunule, ])oth dark yellow; marginal 

 dots small. Secondaries nearly as dark as primaries; discal dot round, 

 blackish; mesial line dark; submarginal pale, cutting the darker mar- 

 ginal area. Below the lines faintly repeated on a paler ground, espe- 

 cially those of secondaries. 



Eu'jHtnst. — 28 mm. 



Hohititt. — Jalapa, Mexico. 



J}/;>.. -Cat. No. 9601, U.S.N.M. 



MASTIGOPHORUS LINEATA, new species. 



Male palpi reliexed. long enough to reach to end of thorax. Dark 

 brown; transverse posterior lines straight, white, darker edged with- 

 out; two subapical blackish spots preceded b}- a slender whitish line, 

 the remains of the obsolete subterminal; anterior line slender, pale, 

 straight; reniform a narrow 3'ellowish lunule; a terminal row of small 

 dashes. Secondaries greyer with an outer pale line which defines a 

 dark line from the marginal shade; it approaches the margin toward 

 anal angle and is bent and intensified there with a brown dot in and 

 one following the bend; a faint discal dot. Below primaries dark over 

 disk with a dark outer and yellowish submarginal lines costally; sec- 

 ondaries white, brown irrorate; discal dot and broken mesial line dark. 



Ex'pa/(f<e. — 23 mm.. 



TTahitdt. — Jalapa, Mexico. 



7^/yye.— Cat. No. 9602, U.S.N.M. 

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