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NOCTUIDiE. 
dorsal series of rather large crests and small lateral tufts on 
terminal segments, the male with lateral tufts of long hair 
from behind the stigmata. Fore wing with the costa moder- 
ately arched, the apex somewhat produced, the termen evenly 
curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle 
of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 
8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell 
half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 fully 
developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 
anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Metasarca euplianera, n. sp. 
Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous and mixed 
with some black, the antennae rufous ; abdomen pale rufous 
with blackish segmental lines, the crests tipped with black ; 
pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdomen pale rufous, 
the fore tibiae banded with black. Fore wing greyish tinged 
with red-brown and irrorated with blackish, more thickly on 
basal costal area ; antemedial line indistinct, blackish, 
slightly waved ; reniform very indistinctly defined by dark 
brown and with some blackish in centre ; a faint waved 
blackish line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- 
medial line blackish, oblique and indistinctly double to vein 6, 
then waved and curved ; subterminal line pale, defined on 
inner side by black scales, slightly waved, excurved below 
vein 7 and at middle, the area beyond it rather darker ; 
a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with a black 
line at middle. Hind wing uniform glossy flesh-pink ; a 
blackish terminal line. Underside flesh-pink ; both wings 
with blackish discoidal lunule with some points in centre ; 
fore wing with the costal edge blackish, an indistinct blackish 
postmedial line, almost obsolete except towards costa ; hind 
wing with curved, slightly waved blackish postmedial line. 
Hcib. Mexico, Cuernavaca, 1 q type. Exp. 56 millim. 
Genus BARCITA. 
Barcita, Moschl. Abh. Senck. Gos. xiv. p. 54 (18S6). 
Phicilta, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 44 (1901) . 
Type. 
subvi ridescens, Walk . 
duomita , Schaus. 
Barcita rufescens, n. sp. 
$. Head and thorax pale red-brown ; pectus ochreous 
whitish ; abdomen red-brown mixed with whitish, the anal 
tuft more rufous, the ventral surface ochreous whitish. Fore 
wing pale red-brown tinged with purple and irrorated with 
some dark brown scales ; an indistinct sinuous dark subbasal 
line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, 
rather diffused, dark, oblique and somewhat waved below 
