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Show 1894.] FROM TROPICAL AMERICA. 241 shaded with brownish grey. Secondaries white. Underneath, tbe primaries are yellowish white. Exp. 24 miUim. Hab. Tijuca, Petropolis. Obs. The female similar in every respect. 58. SALOPOLA YESTALIS, sp. nov. 3. Silvery white; the inner margin of the primaries very light brown. On tbe costal margin of the secondaries a long tuft of yellow hairs. Underneath white; a tuft of yellow hairs on the primaries just above the median vein, and curling over the origin of veins 2, 3, and 4. Exp. 33 millim. Hab. Castro, Parana. Obs. This species is closely allied to S. argentea, Walk., but differs in its white secondaries and tufts of hairs, which are longer in S. argentea and black on the underside of the primaries. 59. AREVA PERPENSA, sp. nov. 3. Body white above, yellow underneath. Primaries white ; the costal margin pale yellow; the inner margin faintly brownish. Secondaries white, with a few long yellow hairs in the cell. Underneath white; the primaries with the outer margin slightly smoky, the costal margin orange, and there is a large oval cluster of long hairs. The primaries are a little longer than the secondaries and very broad. Exp. 31 millim. Hab. Jalapa, Mexico. Fam. NOTODONTIDJE. 60. OZDEMASIA TROPICA, sp. nov. Palpi, head, and collar brown. Thorax whitish. Abdomen light brown. Primaries above light grey; the costa and base shaded with brown; a wavy, fine, geminate, black median line, inwardly shaded with brownish, and followed at the end of the cell by an inwardly curved black crescent-shaped line; an outer geminate black line, interrupted and very indistinct; a terminal black wavy line, with inwardly a short black streak on each vein. Secondaries brown. Underneath, primaries brown, secondaries whitish margined with brown. Exp. 39 millim. Hab. Aroa, Venezuela. 61. ElFARGIA MASTA, Sp. nOV-Palpi, bead, and thorax brown, thickly mottled with green scales. Abdomen dark grey, with still darker clusters of scales subdorsally. Primaries above moss-green, mottled with brown, and paler beyond the cell; at the base a fine black streak surmounting a pale spot on the inner margin; the basal and median lines almost imperceptible ; a dark brown transverse streak at the end of the cell; the outer line represented by two series of minute dark spots on the veins separated by white scales ; the submarginal line indistinct, forming towards the inner angle some |