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from Colombia and may possibly be the other sex of the present 

 species. These two species should probably form a distinct sec- 

 tion of the genus, as it is probable that minuta has in the male 

 the same emargination on the outer edge of the hind wing as in 

 the present species. 



Family NOCTUIDAE. 

 Subfamily Acronyctinae. 

 Neophsenis sedemon, new species. (Fig. 41, No. 6.) 



Palpi with the third joint long. Head, thorax and fore 

 wings green, variegated with black markings. Fore wing with 

 the ordinary lines geminate, lunulate, the outer line sharply so 

 above, filled above, followed below by white; reniform and or- 

 bicular large, doubly black ringed ; subbasal line faint, geminate ; 

 a black blotch on inner margin across vein 1 ; a mark on cOsta 

 mesially, a bar in cell and a blotch on inner margin from vein 2 

 next to the outer line; a series of subterninal nearly confluent 

 black spots, between which and the margin is a black shading 

 interrupted mesially; a terminal broken black line; fringe 

 spotted with black. Hind wing black with some green above 

 tornus and on fringe. Legs long, pale brownish, the fore legs 

 green and banded with black. Expanse, 30 mm. 



One 5 , Hoorie, British Guiana (C. W. Beebe). 



Type.— No. 12671, U. S. National Museum. 



Emarginea empyra, new species. (Fig. 41, No. 7.) 



Head white, thorax black with a red-brown tuft behind; 

 abdomen black above, white below, the anal tuft white. Fore 

 wing with the basal half white, a quadrate clay-colored mark 

 basally on inner margin, edged with a fine black line that is 

 thickened at base; a small costal mark similarly bordered with 

 black. A black line limits the white field, slightly inflexed below 

 cell, expanded on costa and including a small white spot. Ter- 

 minal half of wing brown, with a purplish luster at apex and 

 tornus, dull centrally. A minute white speck on costa before 

 apex. Hind wing soiled whitish, shaded with fuscous on costa 

 and inner margin. Expanse, 17 mm. 



One $ , Hoorie, British Guiana (C. W. Beebe) ; 2 ^ ^ , St. 

 Jean, Maroni River, French Guiana, March, 1904 (W. Schaus). 



Type.— No. 12672, U. S. National Museum. 



