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Type, No. 24350, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; type, female, southern 

 Arizona (E. J. Oslar) ; paratypes, seven females, four, Jalapa, 

 Mexico (Schaus collection), Orizaba, Mexico, March, 1908 

 (R. Miiller), Zacualpan, Mexico, October, 1917 (R. Miiller), 

 Guerrero Mill, Hidalgo, Mexico, 9,000 feet (Mann & Skewes, 

 gift of B. Preston Clark). 



Nystalea Indiana Grote. 



Nystalea Indiana Grote, Papilio, iv, 7, 1884. 



Nystalea guttulata Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xxx, 143, 1904. 



Paradise Key, Florida, March 4, 1919 (Schwarz & Barber). 



Nystalea eutalanta, new species. 



Near ebalea Cramer, smaller, stouter, with a large whitish 

 mark from costa surrounding the discal mark. Shaded with 

 blackish gray ; inner line indicated, slightly curved across wing, 

 just beyond origin of vein 2 ; a rounded black spot below vein 

 2 ; outer line indicated, oblique, slender, followed by blackish ; 

 terminal space lighter, with a faint wavy dark subterminal line. 

 Hind wing whitish ; veins and margin dark fuscous. Expanse, 

 male, 48 mm. ; female, 52 mm. 



Type, No. 24161, U. S. Nat. Mus.; male, Cocoanut Grove, 

 Florida, March 6 (W. H. Broadwell) ; female. Paradise Key, 

 Florida, March 1, 1919 (Schwarz & Barber). 



Family NOCTUID^ 

 Subfamily PANTHEIN^ 



Diphthera angelica, new species. 



Fore wing even stone-gray, black scales rather coarsely 

 irrorated over a whitish ground ; a black mark on base of costa ; 

 three lines grouped toward the center of the wing, inner, 

 median and outer, the median heaviest, inbent mesially, den- 

 ticulate, whitish without. Hind wing whitish, veins and termi- 

 nal line gray ; discal dot showing by transparency ; an outer 

 broad gray shade, touching apex and tornus. Expanse, 40 mm. 



Type, male. No. 24719, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Los Angeles, Cali- 

 fornia, Mount Lowe, 4,000 feet, September 9, 1920 (K. R. 

 Coolidge). 



