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men grayish buff with some darker irrorations above and sopie 

 fuscous dorsal spots and transverse hnes. Fore wings cinnamon 

 drab, the markings black ; a spot at base of costa ; a subbasal 

 line outbent on costa, then curved and oblique to inner margin; 

 antemedial line double filled in with a dark shade, outbent to 

 middle of cell then obliquely incurved to inner margin ; a medial 

 incurved line and an outcurved postmedial line suffusing below 

 discocellular and forming a broad fuscous brown shade to inner 

 margin ; an ovate whitish spot on discocellular ; an outer fine 

 double line from costa filled in with deep quaker drab, wavy, 

 outcurved between veins 4 and 2, then vertical to inner margin ; 

 an oblique fuscous spot at apex and traces of a fine broken 

 subterminal line ; terminal fuscous points at veins 2 and 3 ; cilia 

 whitish and gray with darker spots. Hind wings tawny olive, 

 paler on costa ; cilia whitish with dark spots at veins. Fore 

 wings below pale avellaneous with traces of postmedial and 

 outer lines. Hind wings below whitish thickly irrorated with 

 light drab ; traces of a postmedial and a subterminal curved line. 



Expanse, 30 mm. 



Habitat. — Orizaba, Mexico. 



Type— Cat. No. 25634, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Hydriomena simeon, new species. 



Male. — Palpi deep neutral gray. Head and thorax fawn 

 color. Abdomen avellaneous with darker dorsal and trans- 

 verse shading. Fore tibiae and tarsi reddish brown, the tarsi 

 with whitish rings. Fore wings avellaneous irrorated with 

 mouse gray ; four russet vinaceous spots on costa at origin of 

 antemedial, medial, postmedial and subterminal lines with whit- 

 ish shading on costal edge between them ; a smaller basal spot 

 on costa, and a small subbasal spot, from the latter an outbent 

 fine russet vinaceous line, angled in cell and then almost vertical 

 to inner margin, irrorated with black below cell ; antemedial 

 line fine, double, outangled in cell, filled in to within cell and 

 on inner margin with russet vinaceous ; medial line fine, indis- 

 tinct, closely following the antemedial below cell ; postmedial 

 line double, widely separated from costa to vein 5, verv indis- 



