Noctuidee from Tropical America. 39 
from costa to inner margin; outer portion of wing dark steel- 
grey, shading to brown on outer margin; a velvety black 
discocellular streak, outwardly shaded with reddish brown 
and surmounted by a dark shade to costa; traces of a dentate 
outer greenish line above vein 3, shaded with buff between 
5 and 6; subterminal consisting of some irregular dull 
greenish shades ; minute buff points at tips of veins; fringe 
dark greyish black. Secondaries brown ; some terminal pale 
scales; fringe partly mottled with buff. Underneath dark 
greyish brown; the inner margin of primaries white; the 
inner area of secondaries shaded with white; some blackish 
and buff spots on costa of primaries and a dark outer line; 
secondaries with two darker transverse lines. 
Expanse 24 millim. 
Hab. Rio Janeiro. 
Dyomyzx placida, 
Head and thorax umber-brown. Abdomen dull brown. 
Wings brown. Primaries: the basal line blackish, oblique 
to median vein; the inner line dark brown, slightly oblique 
to median vein, then wavy, slightly curved inwardly to inner 
margin; the median line dark brown, wavy to vein 2, then 
slightly oblique outwardly to inner margin, where it is pre- 
ceded by the ocellus and followed by some silvery scales ; the 
ocellus black, containing a white point and circled with light 
brown; the reniform faintly outlined with dark brown; the 
outer line angled between 6 and 7, not perceptible below vein 
3; traces of a subterminal dark shade; marginal dark points 
between the veins; fringe dark grey, a pale line at base. 
Secondaries: a median and an outer darker line; beyond the 
anal angle three silvery spots, the centre one followed by a 
round velvety black spot edged with light brown. Under- 
neath lighter brown ; a darker, finely lunular outer line and 
a similar median line on secondaries ; faint discal spots ; four 
buff spots on costa of primaries before apex, both above and 
below. ) 
Hixpanse 33 millim. 
Hab. Orizaba, Mexico. 
Barydia tremula. 
Body light brown. Wings light brown, irrorated with 
darker brown; terminal white spots inwardly shaded with 
dark brown and connected by a faint wavy brown line; base 
of fringe paler. Primaries: a geminate inner transverse line, 
dark brown, somewhat lunular ; an indistinct darker geminate 
fine median shade ; reniform round, lilacine white; traces of 
