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Hemiplatvtes prosenes Dyar. 



1912, Dyar, First Rept. Laguna Marine Lab., p. 165, Diatraea. 

 1917, B. & McD., Check List, p. 141, No. 5433, CMio. 



Apparently this species belongs with the preceding, having the 

 same general distribution and habitus, similar antennae, palpi, tongue, 

 vestiture and frons, the venation also agreeing with the exception 

 of vein 11 of the primaries which anastomoses with 12 for a short 

 distance, the distal ends of both veins being free. 



EPIPASCHIINAE 



Macalla thyrsisalis Wlk. 



1858, Wlk., Cat. Lep. Het. B. M., XVI, 156, Macalla. 



A single female in the Barnes Collection from Miami, Florida, 

 16-23 June, matches a male from Guatemala (Barnes and Schaus), 

 donated by Mr. Schaus. According to Hampson, (Trans. Ent. Soc, 

 Land., 1896, p. 465), Aradrapha mixtalis Wlk., (1865, Cat. Lep. Het. 

 B. M., XXXIV, 1257), is a synonym. 



Epipaschia albomedialis sp. nov. 



Head and palpi, brownish-rufous. Thorax, black-purple. Primaries: basal- 

 t. a. area deep black-purple, tinged with rufous, bounded distally by a slightly 

 darker, outwardly oblique, t. a. line ; a violaceous-white V-shaped median area 

 bounded mesially by the t. a. line and distally by the median shade which is 

 more or less suffused and united with the deep purple distal half of the wing; 

 a black tuft of scales at the end of the cell; t. p. line blackish, single, inwardly 

 oblique on costa, thence excurved, drawn in to a point on the submedian fold, 

 thence nearly erect to inner margin ; a costal white mark distad of the t. p. 

 line; a black terminal line, interrupted by white dots at the extremities of the 

 veins; fringe brownish, interlined with darker brown. Secondaries: whitish, 

 considerably suffused with dull fuscous-brown, with a darker median shade 

 and outer margin, a fuscous terminal line, and veins more or less marked by 

 fuscous ; fringe as on primaries. Beneath : yellowish-white, more or less tinged 

 with red, some of the markings of the upper side showing faintly; secondaries 

 with an obscure fuscous discal dot. 



Expanse: about 19 mm. 



Type localities: San Benito and Brownsville, Texas. 



Number and sexes of types: Holotype $ , 1-7 April ; Allotype ? , 16-23 

 May; 4 $ Paratypes, 16-23 March (2), 1-7 Aug. (2) ; 4 9 Paratypes, 1-7 May 

 (1), 16-23 May (1), 16-23 July (1), no date (1); all San Benito; 1 9 Para- 

 type, "6-11", Brownsville, Geo, Dorner. 



