OF WASHINGTON. 99 
bristles in front of dorsal eyes, and a smaller tuft lower down behind 
A. S. E.; many long erect black hairs on cephalothorax; mandibles 
iridescent green in front, base clothed with golden scales; legs reddish 
brown to very dark, the tip of joints darker, and tibia i with black apical 
half; all, but more especially the front pair, clothed with long white hair 
below and on sides, and erect black hair above; sternum dark; venter 
pale, unmarked except a fine dusky median line on basal half; dorsum 
brown, pale on sides, with two oblique white bars, white at base, extend- 
ing back each side, and two approximate dark stripes on apical half, 
rather farther forward separated by a narrow, but very distinct, white 
stripe, connected to a larger spot in front. In each dark stripe are two 
white dots, sometimes connected to the median white line. This mark 
resembles that figured for P. albomaculatus by Peckham. 
Length 12 mm. 
A few females from Brazos Co., Texas, Sept. Also sent 
me by Mr. Scheffer from Kansas. 
Pellenes formosus n. sp. 
Cephalothorax pale yellowish: eye-region black, clothed with short 
white hair, especially prominent as a crest over the first eye-row; a large 
triangular black spot in the middle behind, and a brown stripe on each 
side; clypeus with snow-white hair, mandibles white, with a large, black, 
basal spot; palpi pale, the tarsi black, but with some white hairs; legs 
pale; femur i black toward tip, especially on outer side, patella black on 
outer side, tibia with a brown streak each side; femur ii blackish on 
inner side, brown streaks on patella and tibia; femur iii with an oblique 
black mark on anterior basal part, patella with three black dashes in 
front, one basal, two apical, tip broad; tibia iii with two dark streaks 
in front; femur iv with a black apical mark, and a band at base and 
at apex of the tibia; all legs with much long white hair, a ridge under 
femur i of especially long hair, and more on outer side of tibia i; the 
three spines on inner side of tibia i are large and flattened, a similar spine 
on inner side of patella i. Sternum pale; venter pale, with three dark 
stripes; dorsum pale, a basal black band, and two brown stripes above, 
joined behind, and leaving a rather reddish area between them. 
Length 5 mm. 
One male from Yuma, Arizona, August. 
Hyctia robusta n. sp. 
Cephalothorax yellowish, eye-region blackish, thoracic part with 
some irregular streaks of blackish ; some white hair around eyes, and dense 
long white hair in front on clypeus; a tuft of curved black bristles behind 
each lateral eye; legs pale yellowish, first pair rather reddish; mandibles 
reddish; palpi pale yellowish, with a black line each side, and clothed 
with long white hair; sternum pale yellowish; abdomen yellowish, with 
a dark indistinct stripe each side above, made up of brown streaks and 
