164 jffrst annual Report 



PYRALID^ 



PYRAUSTINAE 



Nomophila noctuella Dennis and Schiffermuller 

 Two specimens. 



Glaphyria reluctalis Hulst 

 One specimen. 



PHYCITINAE 



Ephestiodes gilvescentella Ragonot 

 Three specimens. 



Maricopa mirabilicornella Dyar 

 One specimen. 



CRAMBINAE 



Dicymolomia metalliferalis Packard 

 One specimen. 



Thaumatopsis lagunella n. s. 



Thorax and fore wing ochre yellow, the wing shaded with gray in 

 a band below median vein and on terminal third ; medial vein nar- 

 rowly white; discal venules also white; a black streak in lower part 

 of cell, continued beyond to apex, where it is bent sharply upward; 

 an oblique brown median line from end of cell to inner third of wing 

 on inner margin, flexuous in the middle ; a submarginal gray line 

 parallel to termen ; a terminal row of black dots ; a bright leaden line 

 at base of fringe. Hind wing gray. Expanse 26 mm. 



One female specimen. 



Type No. 14349, IT. S. National Museum. 



Allied to fcnu/hlcUa Kearfott, but with the cross-lines more dis- 

 tinct, the discal venules paler and relieved on a gray ground. 



The identification of this form leads me to make some passing 

 comment on Mr. W. D. Kearfott 's article on Thaumatopsis (Proc. U. 

 S. Nat. Mus., XXXV, 386, 1909), to which I naturally turned for the 

 identification of the specimen. An analytical key to the species is 

 there given, but to me it proves worthless, for the characters given 

 are quite contradictory to the actual species as I know them. For 

 example, edonis Grote is given with a white median streak, which is 

 in fact conspicuously absent; pexella Zeller is said to have no median 

 streak, whereas it is always more or less evident, often distinctly 

 white. Lest this be thought to be a transposition, due to the accidents 

 of typography, we find gibsoueUa Kearfott and coloradella Kearfott 

 also under the heading "median streak not white," which is certainly 



