OF WASHINGTON, VOLUMK XI, 1909. 27 



shade line from middle of vein 2 to the outer margin at vein 4. Hind 

 wings soiled whitish. Expanse, 47 mm. 



One female, Orizaba, Mexico, October, 1908, from Mr. R. 

 Mtiller. 



Type No. 12222, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Family GEOMETRIDyE. 

 Selidosema insaria, new species. 



Palpi short and slender ; antennae of the male with a very short bare 

 tip, the most of the shaft with long pectinations. Wings with entire 

 margins, carneous gray, whitish towards the base, purplish-shaded along 

 the margins ; lines obliterate, the outer represented by a row of purplish- 

 brown dots on both wings, the wing sprinkled with scattered irrorations : 

 on the hind wings a faint shaded inner line ; a row of small black points 

 in the base of the fringe ; beneath evenly irrorated, with small dark 

 discal dots. Thorax and abdomen of the same color as the base of the 

 wings, the abdomen with a double dorsal row of black points. Expanse, 

 24 to 27 mm. 



Two males and one female, Fort Meade, Fla., from Air. 

 F. A. Merick. 



No. 12209, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Stenaspilates metzaria, new species. 



Gray, the median space blackish-shaded. Fore wing with a projection 

 at the end of vein 7 and a double one at veins 4-5; gray, slightly 

 olivaceous ; the median space is shaded in dark brown, bounded by the 

 dark lines, which are both nearly straight, the inner one slightly relieved 

 on the paler ground, the outer not separated from the median shading; 

 discal dot minute, rounded, blackish : a row of minute, terminal black 

 dots between the veins, most distinct towards the apex. Hind wing 

 slightly ocherous tinted, except at the anal angle, where the gray color 

 prevails ; a faint outer dark line, indistinctly paler margined without ; 

 a blackish discal bar: two black dots at the apex terminally. Beneath 

 paler, irrorate, the outer lines and discal marks indicated in blackish, 

 the discal mark of the fore wing a narrow ringlet. Expanse, 36 mm. 



One male, Claremont, Cal. (C. W. Metz), from Mr. C. F. 

 Baker. 



Family PYRALID/E. 



Subfamily CRAMBIN^E. 



Genus ARGYRIA Huebner. 







1'nder the name Platytes, Sir G. F. Hampson refers (Proc. 

 Zool. S<H\ Lond., 1895, 946) sqiioinnlcllus Zeller and 



