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NOCTUIDJE. 



black-brown line from apex, indistinct and double from vein 3 to 

 inner margin ; traces of a pale waved subtenninal line from vein 6 

 to inner margin with some blackish scales on its outer edge ; a series 

 of minute black points before termen. Hind wing with the basal 

 area reddish brown, its outer edge oblique to inner margin beyond 

 middle, followed by a broad orange-yellow band from costa before 

 middle to inner margin and termen near tornus where it encloses a 

 brown patch, its outer edge excurved bej^ond the cell and angled 

 before tennen ; the apical ai-ea black-brown ; cilia greyish brown ; 

 the underside grey thickly irrorated with blackish except on inner 

 area, a series of slight black ]X)ints before termen. 



Hah. Cuba, Santiago (Schaus), 1 d . -^.r/?. 38 raillim. 



Genus FOCILLIDIA, nov. 



Type, F. texana. 



Proboscis fully clereloped ; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint reaching to aboxe 

 Tertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long and acuminate; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; anteunse of male typically bipectinate with short 

 branches; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crest ; fore 

 tibi» not spined, the hind tibiiB spined between the mid and hind spurs only ; 

 abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex some- 

 what produced and acute, the termen excised below apex and excurved at 

 middle, slightly in male, strongly in female, and crenulate; reins 3 and f> 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from ujDper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the 

 length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above 

 angle; G, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antenna; of male bipectinate with short branches. 



7932. Focillidia texana, u. sp. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white tinged with 

 rufous ; antenna' ringed with blackish ; palpi with the 3rd joint 



Fi''. 43.— Focillidia texana, J. {> 



black i.sh except at tijis ; pectus and legs ochreous white irrorated 

 with brown, the fore legs tinged with fuscous in front. Fore wing 



