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bicular and claviform round, both large, black-ringed, con- 

 colorous with the ground; reniform narrow, pale, joining the 

 pale outer shade and a little lighter than it ; lines obsolete, the 

 outer showing a trace below ; terminal area and fringe dark, 

 cut by a light subterminal line, which shows an obsolete tooth 

 at vein 3 close to the margin. Hind wing dark fuscous, 

 lighter at base, relieving a small discal dot. Abdomen dark 

 brown above, mingled with black, the anal tuft yellowish. 

 Expanse, 32 mm. 



Type, female. No. 24092, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Zacualpan, 

 Mexico, September, 1919 (R. Miiller). 



Subfamily CUCULLIIN^ 



Walterella, new genus. 



Tegulse not produced behind into a hood; frons with trun- 

 cate conical prominence with raised edges, the upper edge 

 produced into a long point, the lower edge tridentate. Tarsi 

 unarmed ; legs and thorax clothed with hairs and long-stemmed 

 tridentate scales, tufted at the ends of patagia and metathorax ; 

 abdomen with a small tuft on the third segment ; eyes slightly 

 reduced in size, strongly lashed; antennae of male simple, min- 

 utely ciliate. 



Walterella eudesmia, new species. 



Thorax dark gray, the tuftings at end of patagia and meta- 

 thorax brown. Fore wing narrow, obliquely cut at anal angle ; 

 gray, the basal space light, except on inner margin, bounded by 

 the dark inner line, which forms a right-angle on submedian, 

 preceded by an inner fainter duplication ; median space shaded 

 with blackish, most strongly so costally ; orbicular and reniform 

 rounded, similar, each of a double black ring, the reniform 

 squarely cut inwardly ; claviform obscure, but long ; outer line 

 dark, denticulate, faintly doubled, drawn in below median and 

 running parallel to inner margin almost to inner line ; followed 

 by an olive-brown band, which rises broadly from inner margin 

 before tornus, running obliquely nearly to termen, narrowed, 

 angled, and continued faintly to costa at apex, broken by gray 



