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clusters on the inner margin ; three large white spots on the costal margin, and a 
whitish patch close to anal angle ; the extreme outer margin and fringe steel gray ; a 
terminal row of black spots. Secondaries brown, darkest on the outer margin. I n- 
derneath the secondaries are fuscous with a terminal brown shade and some dark 
spots on the costal column. Expanse, 21 mm. 
Habitat: Guadalajara, Mexico. 
Tarache mizteca, sp. nov. 
Head and thorax dark steel gray. Collar whitish. Abdomen yellowish, Pri¬ 
maries with the anterior half olivaceous and three large spots on the costal margin ; 
the inner margin dark steel gray, with traces of an antemedial and postmedial dark 
line ; a large white spot at the anal angle containing some clusters of grayish scales 
and a terminal interrupted black line. Secondaries white with the outer margins 
brownish yellow, especially at the apex. Underneath yellowish, the dark portions of 
the primaries visible. Expanse, 25 mm. 
Habitat: Oaxaca, Mexico. 
Tarache jaliscana, sp. nov. 
Head black. Collar and thorax white. Abdomen brown above, white below. 
Primaries white, the marginal third of the wing violaceous brown shaded inwardly 
with olive green ; some terminal patches of lilacine scales, and a double grayish termi¬ 
nal line ; the basal third of the costal margin steel gray. Secondaries white in the $■ 
with smoky margins, entirely brown in the 9 . Expanse, 35 mm. 
Habitat: Guadalajara, Mexico. 
Tarache duenna, sp. nov. 
Head creamy white. Thorax grayish. Abdomen dark gray with transverse 
whitish lines. Primaries violaceous, mottled with brown and black scales ; a large 
white spot on the centre of the costal margin, inferiorly bordered with olivaceous- 
green ; some whitish scales at the base and also on the outer margin below the apex. 
Secondaries yellowish white, the^uter margin smoky. Expanse, 21 mm. 
Habitat: Sao Paulo, S. E. Brazil. 
Eustrotia bertha, sp. nov. 
Head and collar grayish Prothorax fawn color. Abdomen light brown. 
Primaries with the basal half creamy fawn color shaded with longitudinal brown 
streaks ; the outer half lilacine gray with a subterminal white line preceded by some 
whitish shades ; a few apical dark brown streaks Secondaries white in the $ w hh a 
terminal brown line, and minute spot in the cell; slightly smoky at the apex. Secon¬ 
daries brown in the 9 • Expanse, 20 mm. 
Habitat: Sao Paulo, S. E. Brazil. 
Xanthoptera auruda, sp. nov. 
Be dy and primaries bright yellow ; a broad transverse orange line, curved beyond 
the cell and inwardly oblique to the middle of the submedian vein ; the orbicular and 
reniform represented by orange dots ; a similar dot below the orbicular; a terminal 
