108 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Vol. vi. 



Agrotis molepa, sp. nov. 



$ . Antennre pectinated. Head and thorax light reddish brown. Abdomen 

 yellowish white. Primaries light reddish brown ; antemedial line replaced by three 

 black spots, on costa, median and submedian veins ; postmedial line punctifoim, 

 I Jack, hardly curved on costa and parallel with outer margin ; reniform small, black. 

 Secondaries pearly white. Expanse, 36 mm. 



Habitat : Castro, Parana. 



What I consider as the 9 of this species has the primaries dark red- 

 dish brown with transverse black striae, making the costal margin much 

 darker ; orbicular represented by a black point ; reniform small, black. 

 Secondaries white, thinly speckled with black. Expanse, 42 mm. 



Habitat : Castro, Parana. 



Amathes gasiva, sp. nov. 



Head and thorax dark gray, the scales tipped with white, and a black central 

 line on the collar. Abdomen brown with a subdorsal basal tuft of dark gray scales. 

 Primaries dark gray ; the basal line black, indistinct ; the antemedial line black, out- 

 wardly curved between tie veins ; the postmedial inwardly curved between the veins, 

 more narrowly black, but very distinct and followed by a line of dark scales; the 

 subterminal wavy, lighter gray, preceded and followed by a brownish shade ; the 

 veins on outer margin blackish ; the claviform outlined in black ; the orbicular and 

 reniform large, tinged with brown and irregularly outlined with black ; a broad dark 

 brown median shade crossing the wing between the spots. Secondaries brown, 

 whitish towards the base ; a terminal white line. Underneath light grayish with a 

 minute discal spot and postmedial line. Expanse, 28 mm. 



Habitat: Las Vigas, Mexico. Elevation 10,000 ft. 

 Strongly resembles A. tesselloides Grote. 



Amathes yaxcaba, sp. nov. 



Head and thorax gray, the anterior portion of collar velvety black. Abdomen 

 light grayish brown. Primaries gray, minutely speckled with black ; a basal black 

 line not reaching the inner margin ; the antemedial line diffusely angulate, irregular, 

 sometimes only visible on the costal margins ; the postmedial represented by a black 

 spot on costa ; the subterminal most indistinct, forming a faintly darker shade near 

 costa ; reniform indistinctly and unevenly outlined in black. Secondaries white, with 

 a fine terminal brown line. Underneath primaries and costal margin of secondaries 

 grayish. Expanse, 2>2> mm - 



Habitat : Orizaba, Mexico. 



This species is allied to A. hibricans Gn, and the 9 is easily dis- 

 tinguished by the white secondaries. 



Mentaxya butleri, sp. nov. 



Body light gray. Primaries silvery gray with all the markings very indistinct ; 

 a basal interrupted line ; a geminate arjtemedial and a geminate postmedial line 



