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brown line; a fine terminal dark line. Hind wings grey- 

 brown, tiie veins darker ; some whitish shades in cell and 

 just beyond. 



Expanse 39 mm. 



Hah. Juan Vinas. 



Very closely allied to P . feisthameli^ Gn., but the silver 

 mark is quite different. 



Plusia meretricia, sp. n. 



Head and collar brown shaded with roseate, the collar 

 tipped behind with roseate. Thorax greyish brown, with 

 darker mottliugs. Abdomen covered with long ochreous- 

 brown hairs. Fore wings : costal margin olive-brown, 

 shaded and spotted with roseate buff; base olive-brown, 

 limited by a straiglit whitish basal line, geminate on costa ; 

 antemedial space olive-brown above median, roseate below, 

 with two black points ; the antemedial line geminate on costa, 

 obsolescent in cell, single below it, white, finely edged with 

 browm ; cell on medial space tinged with roseate ; the orbi- 

 cular large, finely outlined in dark brown, and also by a 

 silver line at submedian ; the reniform large, consisting of a 

 dark brown shade, crossed by a lilacine shade, and with three 

 curved silvery lines, two posteriorly and one anteriorly and 

 outwardly ; medial space below cell metallic bronze; a silvery 

 V below orbicular and a round silvery spot more outwardly 

 and well separated from it ; postmedial fine, dark bronze, 

 shaded on either side with roseate bu£E, sliglitly incurved 

 below vein 4; the outer space metallic bronze, with a darker 

 subterminal shade ; a marginal straight roseate buff shade 

 from apex to vein 4, becoming broader below vein 4 ; a 

 terminal brown line. Hind wings silky fuscous brown. 



Expanse 42 mm. 



Hab. Sixola, El Sitio. 



Campometra leucoplaga, sp. n. 



? . Head and collar light brown, irrorated with dark 

 scales. Thorax with a white transverse line posteriorly. 

 Abdomen fuscous ; a light brown transverse shade on second 

 segment. Fore wings greyish brown ; a black and white 

 wavy basal line, a small black spot at base of inner margin ; 

 a broad white antemedial shade, crossed by an irregular 

 black line, and extending in cell to a large white patch at 

 end of cell, which reaches costa and is crossed by a dentate 

 brown line which joins the postmedial below vein 3 ; the 



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