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Family PYRALID^. 



Subfamily CHRYSAUGIN.E. 

 Xantippe descansalis, n. sp. 



Head, thorax, and fore wings lustrous warm red-brown, dark and 

 uniform, crossed by two very faint pale lines; the lines are so faint 

 that their position even is uncertain; the inner is near the base, the 

 outer at the outer third, both nearly straight. Hind wings subpellucid 

 dark fuscous ; abdomen dark fuscous. Expanse, 15 to 17 mm. 



Three specimens, San Diego, Cal. (G. H. Field), Morena, 

 July 4 ; Descanso, July 7. 



Type. No. 11694, U. S. National Museum. 



Subfamily PYRAUSTIN^E. 

 Glaphyria periculosalis, n. sp. 



Fore wing pale stramineous, powdered and shaded with brown, most 

 distinctly over cell between inner line and discal mark and in terminal 

 area; lines brown, slender; basal line continuous, angled in the middle; 

 inner line angled on subcostal and in cell, thence evenly outcurved and 

 oblique to inner margin; outer line arcuate, minutely dentate, angled 

 inward at vein 2, outcurved below to inner margin ; discal mark two 

 opposed brown cusps followed by a white mark produced on its lower 

 angle to outer line; outer margin excavate below the apex, the fringe 

 white, marked with brown at apex and middle of outer margin. Hind 

 wing with an outer curved brown line, the terminal space shaded with 

 brown; a brown line before base of fringe on both wings. Expanse, 

 15 to 18 mm. 



Five specimens, San Diego, Cal., June 26, July 7 and 30 

 (G. H. Field) ; July 27 and August 8, 1907 (W. S. Wright). 



Type. No. 11693, U. S. National Museum. 



This species does not belong in Homophysa Guen. 

 (= Glaphyria Hiibner ace. Fernald on Sir Geo. Hampson's 

 definition [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1898, p. 607]), as veins 

 10 and ii of fore wings are separate and I can not distinguish 

 pecten on the median vein of hind wings, but neither are they 

 in renicnlalis Zeller, which is included. The species would fall 

 in Symphysa except that the maxillary palpi are too short. 

 They reach only to the end of the second joint of the labial 

 palpi. According to the table it falls in Zinckenia (Hymenia 

 Hiibn. of our lists), but I do not like this association. 



Metasia morenalis, n. sp. 



Fore wing rather narrow, dark reddish brown, slightly bronzy; lines 

 very faint, pale, the inner obliterate, angled in the cell, oblique below; 



