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orbicular brown ; claviform large, brown ; orbicular greenish, speckled with brown 

 and broadly circled with white ; reniform large, indistinctly outlined and shaded with 

 brown and partly margined with white ; postmedial line brown, denticulate, outwardly 

 shaded with white and outwardly preceded by a brown shade below the reniform ; 

 subterminal indistinct, forming a broad shade ; a terminal row of triangular black 

 spots ; fringe gray. Secondaries light gray, with a darker terminal line and the discal 

 spot of the underside clearly visible. Expanse, 35 mm. 



Habitat : Las Vigas on the Cofre de Perote, Mexico. Elevation 

 10,000 feet. 



Polyphasnis psittacea, sp. riov. 



Head and thorax bright green. Abdomen trown with a few subdorsal greenish 

 tufts. Primaries bright green ; the lines brown, geminate ; the antemedial irregular 

 wavy, the basal straight, the postmedial ctenulate ; the subterminal shade heavy and 

 irregular, brown, followed apically by some brownish spots ; a terminal crenulate 

 black line. Secondaries reddish brown, paler towards the base ; an interrupted 

 darker terminal line ; the fringe partly green. Underneath primaries reddish brown ; 

 secondaries lighter brown, with a discal spot, postmedial line, and broad marginal 

 band all reddish brown. Expanse, 35 mm. 



Habitat : Aroa, Venezuela. Jalapa, Mexico. 



Polyphaenis aurea, sp. nov. 



Head and thorax bright green. Abdomen golden yellow with a brownish sub- 

 dorsal line. Primaries bright green ; basal marks blackish, irregular, antemedial line 

 brown, geminate from costa to median vein only, then single, fine angular to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line fine, black, wavy, deeply curved beyond the cell, and border- 

 ing a large brown median space on the inner margin ; vein 6 black, from postmedial 

 line to outer margin ; subterminal shade only visible at apex. Secondaries golden 

 yellow with a large apical reddish brown spot. Primaries below with the basal half 

 and inner margin golden yellow, otherwise dark brown ; secondaries below golden 

 yellow with a broad brown band on the apical half of the outer margiD, and a small 

 brown spot on the costal margin. Expanse, 40 mm. 



Habitat : Aroa, Venezuela. 



Mamestra zobira, sp. nov. 



Body dark brown, paler dorsal tufts on the abdomen. Primaries dark violaceous 

 brown, the lines fine, black ; the basal line outwardly, the antemedial line inwardly 

 shaded with reddish brown ; the postmedial line crenulate, outwardly shaded with 

 reddish brown ; the subterminal broken into an irregular row of reddish brown spots, 

 inwardly shaded with black, the spot at inner angle being the largest ; a few minute 

 pale spots on the costa ; the orbicular absent ; the reniform indistinct, mottled with 

 reddish brown scales. Secondaries whitish in the disc, otherwise black. Expanse, 

 31 mm. 



Habitat : Orizaba, Mexico. Jamaica, W. I. 



