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Ethmia prattiella n. sp. 



Labial palpi pure white, terminal joint unusually short. Face and head 

 white. Antenna; dark brown with white basal joint. Thorax white with 

 two minute anterior black dots and with two lateral dots; patagia white 

 with a small basal black dot. Forewings white with 16 small black dots 

 besides a marginal series of black dots; one dot at extreme base of the 

 wing; five dots in a longitudinal row on the upper half of the wing from 

 base to beyond the first costal dot; two are on the fold, one below the 

 fold, three within the cell, three beyond the cell; cilia white. Hindwings 

 whitish fuscous with white cilia. Abdomen light fuscous. Legs whitish 

 with dusky tarsi. Alar expanse: 17 mm. 



Habitat: Zavalla Co., Tex., April, F. C. Pratt, collector. 

 Type: Cat. No. 19232, U. S. N. M. 



Blastobasis eriobotryaB n. sp. 



Labial palpi dark purplish fuscous with the inner side and extreme 

 apex light ochreous. Face light ochreous. Top of head dark fuscous. 

 Antenna; dark fuscous with light ochreous basal joint; second joint in the 

 male enlarged with a deeply excavated notch. Thorax dark brownish 

 fuscous. Patagia and extreme base of the forewings lighter, mixed with 

 ochreous; rest of the forewing dark purplish fuscous, darkest towards the 

 contrasting light base; a small round black dot on the middle of the cell and 

 two similar black dots at the end of the cell; cilia light ochreous fuscous. 

 Hindwings golden fuscous with cilia concolorous. Abdomen dark ochreous 

 fuscous with lighter undersides and anal tuft. Legs light ochreous fuscous 

 with heavy broad black bars on the exterior side and with the tarsi annu- 

 lated with black. Alar expanse: 14 mm. 



Habitat: Miami, Fla., E. R. Sasscer, Coll. 

 Type: Cat. No. 19233, U. S. N. M. 



Bred from dry "mummy" fruit of Loquat, Eriobotrya japonica, 

 hanging on the trees; moths issued early in July. 



Sparganothis albicaudana n. sp. 



Labial palpi light reddish ochreous. Face straw colored, apparently 

 depres ed, due to h - projecting bright ochreous scales of the head. An- 

 tennae ochreous w'th white upper side. Thorax and forewing brigh yel- 

 low, faintly reticulated with slightly raised lines of golden coppery scales; 

 the fema e has a blackish brown oval spot on th:> middle < f dorsal edge, 

 faintly connected with a ; mall costal spot at basal third by a 1 ; ht cop- 

 pery, angulated line; from the middle of cost a runs a more distinct, out- 

 wardly curved, coppery line across the wing to the dorsa 1 i dge just before 

 tornus; extreme terminal edge light coppery; cilia yellow. The male has 

 a small, dark reddish brown costal fold, covering only a sixth of the cost a, 

 and the dorsal and costal spots are much lighter colored than in (he female 



