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inner margin is straight; the apex is very slightly rounded; the 

 outer margin is very slightly curved and the outer angle is evenly 

 rounded. The secondaries are subpyriforni, with the outer 

 margin even rounded. Type P. argyraspis Holl. 



8. P. argyraspis sp. nov. (^. — Antennae, front, palpi, and upperside of 

 thorax brown. Abdomen on the tipperside paler brown; tlie underside 

 of the palpi and of the abdomen pale brown; the e.xtremities of the tibiai 

 of the second and third pairs of legs and the extremities of the femora 

 in the third pair are martced with whitish. The primaries are brown, with 

 the limbal area dark brown, and the intraneural spaces ornamented with 

 black velvety subhastate lines and spots, accentuated with greenish silvery 

 markings as follows: a large subhastate spot before the base near the inner 

 margin, above which is a small oval spot; near the end of the cell at the 

 origin of the third median, a large hastate spot with its point turned toward 

 the cell; beyond this a submarginal series of smaller subhastate spots in- 

 terrupted between the second and tliird median. The first and last spots 

 of the series are the smallest; the third and the fourth, reckoning from the 

 apex, are the largest. Beyond this series of spots there is a faint submar- 

 ginal brown line. The border is defined by a marginal brown line, and 

 the fringes upon the interspaces are dark brown, the extremities of the 

 nervules being marked by paler brown; there are also two dark brown 

 spots about the middle of the costa. The secondaries are uniformly 

 wood-brown, with the fringes checkered with paler color at the extremi- 

 ties of the nervules. On the underside the primaries and secondaries are 

 obscure brown with the fringes distinctly checkered with obscure yellow- 

 ish at the ends of the nervules. The primaries have a dark spot on the 

 costa beyond the end of the cell. The secondaries, which are paler on 

 the basal half, have a narrow discal mark at the end of the cell, followed 

 by an obscure transverse brown line running from the costa to a point 

 above the anal angle. Expanse 50 mm. 



MffiESA Walk. 



9. M. transversata sp. nov. 9. — Antennae brown. Body and appendages 

 brigiit ferruginous. The primaries are bright ferruginous, shining near 

 the base and inner margin; a dark brown, almost black, gently curved 

 line runs from the apex to the inner margin, terminating at a point one- 

 third of the distance from the base. This is succeeded on the outer mar- 

 gin by a similar line running from the apex, curving inwardly and termi- 

 nating upon the outer margin, one-third of the distance from the outer 

 angle. The secondaries are wax-yellow, shining on the inner margin, 

 with the fringes dark brown. The underside of both wings is wax-yellow, 

 with golden reflections; the transverse dark line of the upperside reap- 

 pears very faintly upon the underside of the primaries. Expanse 45 mm. 



10. H. pyrosomoides sp. nov. (^. — Allied to M. pyrosoma Butl., from 

 Madagascar, but larger and otherwise greatly differing. The antennae 



