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A NOTE ON PYRAUSTA OCHOSALIS FITCH, MS. 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR. 



Fitch's specimen (No. 406) has been in the National Museum 

 collection under Pyrausta generosa G. & R., but it differs obvi 

 ously from that species. The yellow spot without the t-p. line 

 on the costa is very small, and there is a larger one within the 

 line rilling its outward bend at the end of the cell. The yellow 

 spot between the reniform and orbicular is very small, usually 

 absent. The species is also smaller. It closely resembles the 

 European Pyrausta aurata Scop., having all the same mark 

 ings, but the vellow band on hind wings is more outwardly 

 placed and less diminished costally in the American than in the 

 European form. Our specimens are from : 



[New York] (Fitch collection, 406 and 6580) ; New York 

 (H. S. Burnett) ; Chicago, 111. (A. Kwiat) ; Taoz, New Mexico, 

 June 14, 1875 (Wheeler survey) ; Rio Ruidoso, White Moun 

 tains, New Mexico, July 31 and August i (C. H. T. Townsend). 

 Also a specimen with the band on hind wings narrower and 

 whitish from " top of range, June 26 " [New Mexico] (T. D. A. 

 Cockerell). 



Dr. Dyar showed a living larva oiffemileuca electra Wright, 

 sent for inspection by Mr. O. C. Poling. The species lives in South 

 ern California and is among our rarest Saturnians. A description 

 of the larva has been published by Mr. Coquillett (Journ. N. Y. 

 Ent. Soc., vi, p. 250, 1898). The specimen shown looks very 

 like a larva of Pscudohazis except for the gray cast that the 

 white dots on the secondary hairs give. The upper row of warts 

 has a short shaft on joints 4-12 (single on joint 12), the spines 

 arising in a bunch. The other warts are in the form of long 

 branching spines. The white subdorsal and lateral lines are 

 straight, the substigmatal one waved. There are no spines on 

 the anal plate, though it is hairy. There is an unpaired long 

 dorsal spine on joint 13. 



Dr. Dyar presented also the description of a Tortricid con 

 stituting a new genus and species, Phthinolophus indentanus, as 

 follows : 



