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Seven specimens, bred from larvae on Ceanothus at Tryon, 

 N. C. The larvae are similar to those of P. elegans, and were 

 so determined in the field. However, Mr. Fiske, who was 

 with me, thought they might be a new species as they seemed 

 so partial to the Ceanothus, which is not the case with elegans. 

 His supposition proves to be correct. 



Type. No. 11498, U. S. National Museum. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW MOTHS FROM 

 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 



By HARRISON G. DYAR. 



Mr. F. A. Merrick, of New Brighton, Pa., has handed me 

 a number of moths, collected in the vicinity of San Diego, Cal., 

 for identification. The collections were made by Messrs. Geo. 

 H. Field and W. S. Wright. The new species among them 

 are here described wherever there were more than one speci- 

 men. A number of uniques have been returned to Mr. Merrick 

 and it is hoped to report on these later when Messrs. Field and 

 Wright shall have been fortunate enough to secure additional 

 specimens. 



Family ARCTIIDyE. 

 Subfamily LITHOSIIN/E. 



Phobolosia reincarnata, n. gen. and sp. 



Palpi upturned to the vertex, fringed with long hair in front which 

 projects as much as the length of the head; antennae serrate in the male, 

 simple in the female; tongue moderately long; eyes large, naked; a tuft 

 of scales projects forward at the top of the vertex; tibiae unarmed, the 

 hind pair with four long spurs ; fore wing trigonate, pointed, sub- 

 falcate at the apex, the venation as in JEolosia Hampson (Cat. Lep. 

 Phal., n, p. 405, 1900) ; hind wing rounded trigonate, rather broad. 



Fore wing with the ground pale cinereous whitish, but nearly com- 

 pletely overlaid with dark shades ; basal space filled in with blackish 

 gray; inner line gray-brown, forming three outward undulations between 

 the costa and median vein, a single large one between median and 

 vein i and another smaller one between vein i and inner margin ; a 

 whitish space of the ground color on each side of this line, the in- 

 ception of these white spaces on costa forming a pair of oblique 

 dashes; median space rilled in with blackish gray, usually heaviest in 

 the middle; discal mark a black bar or crescent followed by a white 



