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Habitat. Popocatepetl slopes, Mexico. 

 Type Cat. No. 25531, U. S. N. M. 



Crambus dukinfieldiellus, new species. 



Male. Head verona brown; palpi white at base and underneath. Collar 

 and thorax deep neutral gray. Abdomen whitish buff. Fore wings glossy 

 buffy brown; costa finely white except at base; a silvery white streak through 

 cell from base to terminal black point on discal fold; a white streak below median, 

 becoming silvery lead color at middle of cell and continued below vein 2; similar 

 lines below veins 3, 4, 5 and 7; inner margin silky pale buff gray; a subterminal 

 silvery lead shade consisting of fine stnations; terminal black points; cilia 

 silvery lead at base, then silvery white. Hind wings white suffused with light 

 buff on costal margin and below cell and vein 5 to vein 2, also on inner margin; 

 cilia white. 



Expanse 26 mm. 



Habitat. Castro, Parana. 



Type Cut. No. 25532, U. S. N. M. 



Near C. albiradiellus Hampson. 



Catharylla paulella, new species. 



Female. Head white, palpi wood brown laterally, fringed above with white. 

 Collar and thorax white. Abdomen above brown; basal segment and segmental 

 lines white; underneath white. Legs white streaked with pinkish buff. Fore 

 wings white with a few light brown irrorations in cell and on postmedial space 

 to termen; basal third of costa finely brown; fine, oblique, brownish streaks on 

 costa medially, postmedially, subterminally, and a short streak along costa 

 before apex; a fine, wavy, light brown medial line, outcurved at end of cell with 

 a black spot on discocellular; postmedial below costal margin only indicated 

 by irrorations; subterminal line fine, distinct, curved below costa and parallel 

 with termen, straight and with minute darker points on interspaces; termen 

 finely brownish with black points; cilia golden silvery. Hind wings white; a 

 fine, dark brown, terminal line and faint marginal gray shading at apex. Wings 

 below silvery, the fore wing and costal margin of hind wing suffused with brown; 

 a terminal dark line, partly interrupted; cilia of fore wing dark, of hind wing 

 white with a brownish'dividing line. 



Expanse 21 mm. 



Habitat. Sao Paulo, South East Brazil. 



7>p*.-Cat. No. 25533, U. S. N. M. 



Near C. tenella Zeller. 



Under the genus Catharylla the first species mentioned by 

 Zeller is tenella which I consider the type of the genus and I 

 retain this generic name as it is not synonymous with Argyria, 

 veins 7, 8, 9 on fore wing being stalked; the palpi are shorter 

 than in Crambus to which it is allied. 



Diptychophora pictella, new species. 



Male. Head and palpi white, the latter broadly circled with cinnamon buff; 

 some similar scaling on frons anteriorly. Thorax vinaceous buff, the patagia 



