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Genus JOCARA Walker. 

 JOCARA APICALIS, new species. 



Olivaceou.s brown, rather dark; palpi and thorax hiteous and dark 

 ])rown shaded. Primaries squamose with diversitied hut ill-detined 

 shades, reddish brown ak^ng' center of inner margin; mesial line pale, 

 diffused: outer line submarginal, rather distinct, pale, dark edged 

 w ithin, ))luntly dentate outwardly-, gently excurved over the lower 

 discal nervules; a white blotch on outer margin at apex irrorate with 

 reddish scales; a row of black terminal dashes; fringe lighter above at 

 the blotch. Hind wings whitish, soiled gravish, relieving a pale sub- 

 marginal line which retreats inward subapically; costa and apex darkly 

 shaded; a black marginal line; fringe, especially along inner margin, 

 roseate tinted. 



E.qxinse. — Female, 31 mm. 



Hah'ttat. — Orizaba, Mexico. 



Type.—i^^t. No. 9B23, U.S.N.M. 



Genus DEUTEROLLYTA Lederer. 

 DEUTEROLLYTA PAGIROA, new species. 



Thorax dark gray with whitish scales intermixed, palpi and antennal 

 process shaded with luteous; primaries luteous, broadly so along inner 

 margin, shaded with olivaceous brown centrally except along costa in 

 mesial space; a pale speck in cell and slight dark discal dot; sub- 

 marginal line finely dentate, pale, retreating from margin apically; a 

 terminal row of black dashes. Secondaries whitish, apex In-oadly dark 

 grey, running along outer margin narrowly; blackish |)oints on the 

 veins submarginaliy centrally. 



Expaui^t. — 29 mm. 



Hahitat. — Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



Type.— C?ii. No. 9H52. U.S.N.M. 



Genus PYRALIS Schrank. 

 PYRALIS GARALIS, new species. 



Head and thorax dark brown; primaries luteous brown, irrorate 

 with dark; inner line dark, angled on submedian and vein 1, obsolete 

 above; a black point for orbicular; a round dark spot for reniform. 

 slightly kidne}' shaped; outer line wav}' above, slightly excurved over 

 cell, incurved below, incised on submedian and excised on vein 1; a 

 terminal row of dark dashes. Secondaries subpellucid. grayish lute- 

 ous, shading dark at apex; traces of an outer line; terminal dashes as 

 on fore wings but fainter. 



E.rpa/tse. — 20 mm. 



IJahlfiii. — Sao Paulo, Brazil. 



7}///'.— Cat. No. 9624. U.S.N.M. 



