June, 1898.] 
New Species of Heterocera. 
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extreme outer margin ; fringe dark violaceous brown. Secondaries light brown. 
Underneath light brown with a postmedial line and discal spot on secondaries. Ex¬ 
panse, 25 mm. 
Habitat: Orizaba, Mexico. 
Hadena zuelana, sp. nov. 
Palpi, head and collar pale fawn in color. Thorax brown. Abdomen gray ; 
dorsal tufts reddish brown. Primaries with the basal half brown, the outer half gray, 
the basal half sometimes mottled with paler shades; the antemedial and medial lines 
fine, geminate, very indistinct; the postmedial line fine, dark, very wavy and twice 
sinuate beyond the cell; the apex darker, with a lunate subapical line outwardly 
shaded with white; some dark subterminal shadings at the inner angle; the spots in¬ 
distinct and faintly outlined. Secondaries with the basal half white, the outer half 
black. Expanse, 34 mm. 
Habitat: Aroa, Venezuela. 
Out of eight specimens I have of this species no two are absolutely 
alike and the variation is greater than the description implies. 
Eurois bertha, sp. nov. 
Head and thorax mottled brown and white. Abdomen light brown. Primaries 
brown. A pink spot at the base ; the basal line white, inwardly shaded with dark 
brown ; the antemedial and postmedial lines fine wh te, the basal and postmedial 
spaces slightly speckled with white. On median space the median and submedian 
veins pink ; the spots circled with white ; the orbicular dark brown, the reniform in 
the shape of 8, pink and brown ; a dark brown space between the spots and a dark 
brown spot beyond the reniform. The terminal space mottled with light brown, some 
subterminal black streaks ; a terminal dark line interrupted on the veins. Fringe 
mottled with gray. Secondaries brown, fringe partly white. Expanse, 30 mm. 
Habitat'. Castro, Parana. 
Eurois orbiculata, sp. nov. 
Palpi yellow, laterally brown. Head yellow. Collar and throat mottled yellow 
and gray. Primaries mottled white and olivaceous brown ; the basal line dark olive, 
the jntemedial white, interrupted, and outwardly bordered with a black line ; a dark 
olive space in the cell between the spots. The orbicular small, white ; the reniform 
large, mottled gray and white ; the postmedial dark, fine, crenulate, angled beyond 
the cell, inwardly shaded with white ; a subterminal wavy greenish white shade ; a 
terminal black line inwardly shaded with white and interrupted in the veins. Fringe 
olivaceous with pale streaks opposite the veins. Secondaries light brown. Under¬ 
neath primaries brownish. Secondaries gray with discal spot, postmedial and sub¬ 
terminal shading. Expanse, 34 mm. 
Habitat: Castro, Parana. 
Platysenta obscura, sp. nov. 
Head, collar a ad thorax black. Abdomen brown. Primaries black, brown 
along the inner margin, in the cell and towards apex. A velvety black streak at base 
