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orbicular brown; daviform large, brown ; orbicular greenish, speckled with brown 
and broadly circled with white ; reniform large, indistinctly outlined and shaded wit 
brown and partly margined with white ; postmedial line brown, denticulate, outwardly 
shaded with white and Outwardly preceded by a brown shade below the reniform; 
subterminal indistinct, forming a broad shade; a terminal row of triangular black 
spots ; fringe gray. Secondaries light gray, with a darker terminal line and the discal 
spot of the underside clearly visible. Expanse, 35 mm. 
Habitat: Las Vigas on the Cofre de Perote, Mexico. Elevation 
10,000 feet. 
Polyphaenis psittacea, sp. nov. 
Head and thorax bright green. Abdomen frown with a few subdorsal greenish 
tufts Primaries bright green ; the lines brown, geminate ; the antemedial irregular 
wavy, the basal straight, the postmedial cienulate ; the subtetminal shade heavy and 
irregular, brown, followed apically by some brownish spots; a terminal crenulate 
black line. Secondaries reddish brown, paler towards the base ; an interrupted 
darker terminal line ; the fringe partly green. Undernealh primaries reddish brown ; 
secondaries lighter brown, with a discal spot, postmedial line, and broad marginal 
band all reddish brown. Expanse, 35 mm. 
Habitat: Aroa, Venezuela. Jalapa, Mexico. 
Polyphaenis aurea, sp. nov. 
Head and thorax bright green. Abdomen golden yellow with a brownish sub- 
dorsal line. Primaries bright green ; basal marks blackish, irregular, antemedial line 
brown, geminate from costa to median vein only, then single, fine angular to inner 
margin ; postmedial line fine, black, wavy, deeply curved bejond the cell, and border¬ 
ing a large brown median space on the inner margin ; vein 6 black, from postmedial 
line to outer margin ; subterminal shade only visible at apex. Secondaries golden ^ 
yellow with a large apical reddish brown spot. Primaries below with the basal half 
and inner margin golden yellow, otherwise dark brown ; secondaries below golden 
yellow with a broad brown band on the apical half of the outer margin, and a small 
brown spot on the costal margin. Expanse, 40 mm. 
Habitat: Aroa, Venezuela. 
Mamestra zobira, sp. nov. 
Body dark brown, paler dorsal tufts on the abdomen. Primaries dark violaceous 
brown, the lines fine, black ; the basal line outwardly, the antemedial line inwardly 
shaded with reddish brown ; the postmedial line crenulate, outwardly shaded wit 
reddish brown ; the subterminal broken into an irregular row of reddish brown spots, 
inwardly shaded with black, the spot at inner angle being the largest; a few minute 
pale spots on the costa; the orbicular absent; the reniform indistinct, mottled with 
reddish brown scales. Secondaries whitish in the disc, otherwise black. Expanse, 
31 nun. * 
Habitat: Orizaba, Mexico. Jamaica, W. I. 
