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HYPONEUMA LEUCANIOIDES, new species. 



Primaries square at apex; straw yellow, brownish shaded, lines obso- 

 lete, the wing finely streaked with rows of brown scales longitudinally 

 with a few black ones scattered between the veins; orbicular and reni- 

 fonn small, black, elongate punctiform; an irregular row of black spots 

 outwardly; terminal points black. Secondaries grayish tinted; a 

 l)lackish discal dot and terminal points. Below l)lackish powdered 

 especially on primaries, the marks of secondaries repeated more 

 distinctly. 



Expanse. — 32 mm. 



Ifahitat. — Sao Paulo, Brazil. 



rv/>e.^Cat. :No. 9609, U.S.N.M. 



Genus HYPE N A Schrank. 

 HYPENA ORONALIS, new species. 



Head and thorax dark brown. Abdomen and secondaries dull gray- 

 brown. Primaries brown, strongly violaceous, and irrorated thinly 

 with dark brown scales; inner line faint, darker brown, slightly 

 curved; outer line fine, reddish brown, shaded with dark lilacine, 

 angled beyond cell, then wavily oblique to inner margin, where it is 

 outwardly edged with white; a white spot on it at vein 2; reniform 

 lunular, dark lilacine; outer margin darker brown, obliquelv limited 

 from apex to vein 4; an indistinct row of subterminal black spots; a 

 terminal dark line; fringe grey-black. No spots underneath. 



Expatut. — 28 mm. 



Ha}) i tat. — Bolivia. 



7}//>e>.— Cat. No. 9H1(», U.S.N.M. 



Family PYKALID^E. 



Genus ARGYRACTIS Hampson. 

 ARGYRACTIS CINERALIS, new specit. 



Dark cinereous, the primaries uniform with but a trace of mark- 

 ings; a whitish dilution near )Mse, one centrally, and a faint difl'used 

 bioadly sinuous outer line. Secondaries white, the margin cinereous; 

 a grey discal lunule from Avhich a mesial band runs to anal angle. 



Expanse. — Female, 25 nun. 



Ilahitat. — Orizaba, Mexico. 



Type.— Cut. No. 9611, U.S.N.M. 



ARGYRACTIS GUADARENSIS, new species. 



Primaries nearly solidly sufl'used with grey on a whitish ground, the 

 discal mark a narrow, somewhat oblique white lunule; a dull reddish 

 shade on the middle of the inner margin curves over toward anal angle, 



