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ANTIPLECTA CINERASCENS, new species. 



lorewing.— Dingy cinereous with darker markings; in the male 

 paler, slightly reddish tinged toward margin; inner line at one-third, 

 projecting outward on median vein, outer line from two-thirds of costa, 

 outwardly oblique to vein 6 then vertical to 2, sinuous below to three- 

 fourths of inner margin; space between the lines dark fuscous; in the 

 female the fascia so formed is broad and entire; in the male narrowed 

 below middle and partially interrupted; a line of three or four black 

 spots from costa before apex to below middle of hind margin and a 

 submarginal more or less interrupted cloud, always marked on costa; 



fringe gray. 



Ilindwln^.— With inner line angled outward on median; outer, well- 

 curved, from just beyond middle of costa to inner margin above anal 

 angle; the lines in both wings are dark brown edged slightly with pale; 

 in the male the angle of inner line is filled in with redder gray; slight 

 black marginal mark before fringe between veins 3 and 7. 



Under side dark cinereous, slightly speckled, and paler in hindwing. 



Vertex and base of antenna whitish; thorax and abdomen dark 

 gray; face and palpi blackish; tuft of hair from base of furrows in 

 male pale ochreous. 



Expanse of wing ^. — IT mm. 



Z.'>c«Z%.— Cayenne, French Guiana; 1 male, 2 females, January 

 and February, 1904. 



Hindwing of female minutely crenulate and toothed between veins 

 3 and 7; of male with an indentation between veins 4 and 3. The 

 female is uniformly darker than the male. The species comes close to 

 A. pmiUa Warren, from Dominica. 



Type.~C2it. No. 9145, U.S.N.M. 



ANTIPLECTA NIGRIPLETA, new species. 



Forewiag.—iyV2iy\^\i tlesh-color; the markings almost identical with 

 those of the male of A. cinerascens; the base of wing remaining of 

 the pale ground-color; the outer edge of fascia more plainly edged 

 with paler. 



Illndiolng. —W\i\\ the outer line less strongly curved, the basal 

 area within it wholly blackish except along inner margin; the dark 

 marks before fringe scarcely traceable. 



Under side of fore wing dull gray-brown with dark speckling; of 

 hindwing ochreous flesh-color, without speckling. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings; the vertex not white; face 

 blackish. 



E-rpanse <>f wings. — 1() mm. 



Locality. — Jalapa, Mexico; 1 male. 



