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buff. Underiicatli with a long streak of audrocoiiia in cell ; 

 the subcostal with a long I'ritige of hairs. Secondaries dark 

 brown, the costal and inner margins brownish grey ; the 

 ou'er margin excavated below angle. 



Expanse 38 mm. 



IJah. Carillo; January. 



Elceognatha argentea, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and legs light grey, irrorated thinly with 

 dark scales ; hind tarsi and second joint of palpi streaked 

 with dark brown. Abdomen brownish grey. Primaries liglit 

 grey, strongly shot with silver from base to postmedial line, 

 which is fine, irregular, incurved, and dentate below cell to 

 niidd'e of inner margin ; a broad whiter shade from base of 

 costa to postmedial line below cell ; a small, round, velvety 

 brown spot circled with buff in cell, and a silvery-white spot 

 on discocellular ; faint brownish medial and apical shades on 

 costa ; an irregular subterminal whitish shade ; terminal dark 

 spots, largest at inner angle. Underneath with a streak of 

 androconia in cell. Secondaries brownish giey, somewhat 

 metallic ; fringe white. 



Expanse 40 mm. 



Hah. JuanVinas; Feb., June. 



Lophosema purimrascens^ sp. n. 



Legs and palpi buff. Head, collar, and thorax grey ; the 

 collar laterally brown, separated from the grey by a dark 

 line ; patagia inwardly shaded with brow'n. Abdomen 

 greyish brown. Primaries violaceous brown, with numerous 

 fine dark grey strige j a little grey and buff at base ; the base 

 of inner margin finely black, followed by a grey shade, 

 medially edged above by a short black line ; the orbicular 

 and reniform consisting of fine geminate circles of a paler 

 tinge, the latter containing a blackish spot, and below is 

 another small black spot on vein 2 ; the postmedial very 

 indistinct, oblique from costa, deeply dentate beyond cell and 

 below vein 2, followed by two dark brown streaks beyond 

 cell ; a faint, subterminal, irregular, whitish line, and a 

 terminal dark brown line inwardly edged by a whitish line. 

 Secondaries somewhat hyaline at base, shading to dark 

 brownish grey outwardly ; the veins dark grey ; some dark 

 brown and wiiitish scales at anal angle. 



Expanse 43 mm. 



llab. Juan Vinas ; June. 



