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Agrotis molepa, sp. nov. 
$. Antennae pectinated. Head and thorax light reddish brown. Abdomen 
yellowish white. Primaries light reddish brown ; antemedial line replaced by three 
black spots, on costa, median and submedian veins; postmedial line punctifoim, 
black, hardly curved on costa and parallel with outer margin ; reniform small, black. 
Secondaries pearly white. Expanse, 36 mm. 
Habitat: Castro, Parana. 
What I consider as the 9 this species has the primaries dark red¬ 
dish brown with transverse black stride, making the costal margin much 
darker; orbicular represented by a black point; reniform small, black. 
Secondaries white, thinly speckled with black. Expanse, 4 2 mm * 
Habitat: Castro, Parana. 
Amathes gasiva, sp. nov. 
Head and thorax dark gray, the scales tipped with white, and a black central 
line on the collar. Abdomen brown with a subdorsal basal tuft of dark gray scales. 
Primaries dark gray ; the basal line black, indistinct; the antemedial line black, out¬ 
wardly curved between the veins ; the postmedial inwardly curved between the veins, 
more narrowly black, but very distinct and followed by a line of dark scales ; the 
subterminal wavy, lighter gray, preceded and followed by a brownish shade ; the ! 
veins on outer margin blackish ; the claviform outlined in black ; the orbicular and 
reniform large, tinged with brown and irregularly outlined with black ; a broad dark 
brown median shade crossing the wing between the spots. Secondaries brown, 
whitish towards the base ; a terminal white line. Underneath light grayish with a 
minute discal spot and postmedial line. Expanse, 28 mm. 
Habitat: Las Vigas, Mexico. Elevation 10,000 ft. 
Strongly resembles A. tesselloides Grote. 
Amathes yaxcaba, sp. nov. 
Head and thorax gray, the anterior portion of collar velvety black. Abdomen 
light grayish brown. Primaries gray, minutely speckled with black; a basal black 
line not reaching the inner margin ; the antemedial line diffusely angulate, irregular, 
sometimes only visible on the costal margins ; the postmedial represented by a black 
spot on costa; the subterminal most indistinct, forming a faintly darker shade near 
costa ; reniform indistinctly and unevenly outlined in black. Secondaries white, with 
a fine terminal brown line. Underneath primaries and costal margin of secondanes 
grayish. Expanse, 33 mm. 
Habitat: Orizaba, Mexico. 
This species is allied to A. lubrleans Gn, and the 9 easily dis¬ 
tinguished bv the white secondaries. 
Mentaxya butleri, sp. nov. 
Body light gray. Primaries silvery gray with all the markings very indistinct; 
a basal interrupted line ; a geminate aDtemedial and a geminate postmedial line 
