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Xubida minorella, new species. 



Male. Head white, a medial brown line on vertex; palpi laterally buffy 

 brown. Thorax and collar medially light buff, laterally brownish. Abdomen 

 above grayish brown, underneath buff with paired converging gray lines on seg- 

 ments; legs whitish partly streaked with fuscous gray. Fore wings cinnamon, 

 the veins from cell reddish brown; edge of costa white; two silvery lines below 

 costa, one in cell edged above with fuscous gray; a silvery line on submedian 

 vein edged above by a brown line and below with fuscous gray to near inner 

 margin; a black point at end of cell; a grayish shade from cell above vein 5; 

 faint traces of a curved line beyond cell; fine dark streaks terminally on inter- 

 spaces; a dark line from costa above end of cell to termen at vein 8; a subterminal 

 dentate line from vein 4 to inner margin; terminal black points; cilia dark silvery 

 gray divided by a fuscous line. Hind wings silvery gray. Fore wings below 

 and costa of hind wing broadly dark silvery gray, the hind wing otherwise 

 white. 



Expanse 19 mm. 



Habitat. Volcan de Santa Maria, Guatemala. 

 Type. Cat. No. 25563, U. S. N. M. 



Xubida venadialis, new species. 



Male. Body white; palpi laterally buff brown; thorax streaked with gray; 

 legs streaked with buff brown. Fore wings white, the veins streaked with gray- 

 ish brown; similar streaks on costa, in cell and on interspaces; the submedian 

 fold white with dark streaks above and below it; a black point at end of cell; a 

 faint brownish line from middle of costa, outcurved around cell; a subterminal 

 dentate gray brown line; terminal black points; cilia white divided by a grayish 

 brown line and another at base. Hind wings white suffused with pale grayish 

 brown; a terminal line from apex to vein 2; cilia white. Fore wings below 

 grayish brown. Hind wings below white, the costa faintly darker shaded. 



Expanse 14 mm. 



Habitat. Venadio, Sinaloa, Mexico. 



Type Cat. No. 25549, U. S. N. M. 



Platytes thyonella Schaus, P. rutubella Schaus, P. circum- 

 vagans Dyar, Ubida neogynaecella Dyar, U. monodisa Dyar, 

 U. cretaceipars Dyar and U. delinqualis Dyar should be trans- 

 ferred to Xubida Schaus. 



Chile truncatellus, new species. 



Male. Body above pale ochraceous buff, underneath whitish buff; palpi 

 laterally avellaneous. Fore wings clay color; costa finely white; the basal 

 third brownish; inner margin white to above submedian; a black point at end of 

 cell; some dark gray scaling in cell, and similar irrorations beyond cell to the 

 fine brownish postmedial line, which is very indistinct, outcurved beyond cell 

 and obsolete below vein 3; a faint darker subterminal line, outcurved below 

 costa; white points terminally on interspaces with black points on either side; 

 cilia fuscous gray at base, then broadly white. Hind wings white; a fine fuscous 

 gray terminal line somewhat interrupted from apex to below vein 2. Fore 



