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lunulate-dentate; marginal area filled with ochreous stria?, a .slight dark 

 marginal line; fringe white. 



Hhidiring. — Without the inner line. 



Under side shining white; costa of forewing yellowish. 



Head and antennte brown; thorax and abdomen white; dorsum 

 tinged with brown at middle; the anal segment fuscous; legs yellowish; 

 abdominal tufts white. 



Kvpanse of lolngs. — 30 mm. 



Locality. — Jalapa, Mexico; i male. 



Smaller than C translacida; the hind margin of hindwing rounded, 

 not angulated. The large abdominal tuft r'ses from the side of the 

 fourth segment, more or less hiding smaller tufts from the next three 

 segments. 



Ti/jjt'.—Cat. No. 9338, U.S.N.M. 



Genus GYOSTEGA Warren. 

 GYOSTEGA RUFIMACULA, new species. 



Forewhuj. — Male, h3'aline white; costa copperj'-ochreous, spotted 

 with blackish; a large coppery-red dark-edged semicircular blotch on 

 inner margin before middle, with some coarse metallic purple scales 

 along the margin; the three usual rows of spots in the single example, 

 very obscure (probably worn); a broad grayish purple marginal bor- 

 der, its inner edge slightly undulating and marked with ochreous-gray; 

 a slight whitish horizontal streak across it from apex along vein 8; 

 fringe concolorous with border; fringe of inner margin white, except 

 along the patch where it is purplish. 



Illndivuig. — With the border narrow and reaching only from apex 

 to middle, the fringe beyond it purplish, below it white; fringe of hairs 

 from upper margin of cell white; the tuft on discocellular gra}'; the 

 lobe of inner margin with a bed of coarse metallic purplish scales. 



Under side without markings except the brown marginal ))order; 

 apex of forewing narrowh' white; the costa yellowish; hindwing with 

 a fringe of white hairs below the median vein and vein 2; fringe in 

 the submedian interval, which is curtailed, gra^ash. 



Head and collar purplish black; thorax white: al)domen fuscous 

 above, at sides and underneath white, the anal segment beneath ochre- 

 ous; pectus white; legs dingy gv2iy. 



Female Avithout the red blotch on inner margin and with the three 

 series of spots complete,, the middle one ending on inner margin in a 

 fulvous spot with black on the margin, as in conchylatay a line of gray 

 striffi ])efore the dark border; hindwing with two sericvs of spots and 

 gray sti'ia^ along the hind margin, foi-ming a cloud at anal angle; apical 

 border as in male; marginal dashes and the fringe gray. 



Under side as in male but with a gray blotch at anal angle of hind- 

 wing. 



