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discal marks darker, very obscure, the reniform lunate; outer line 

 slightly excurved on the median venules, denticulate. Hind wing pale, 

 subpellucid, slightly infuscated, distinctly so on the outer margin; a 

 curved dark punctiform line, close to margin from anal angle to middle 

 of wing, then becoming remote. Expanse, 20 to 22 mm. 



Four specimens, San Diego, Cal. (G. H. Field), Grapevine, 

 June 29 and July I ; Morena, July 4. 



Type. No. 11692, U. S. National Museum. 



Subfamily PHYCITTN.E. 



Ambesa mirabella, n. sp. 



Head and thorax dark gray, frosted with white scales; abdomen pale 

 ocher. Fore wing dark gray, strongly frosted with white on the 

 costal half; inner line black, broken in the cell, the two broken ends 

 produced along the cell to its end, the lower half of the line distinctly 

 narrowly edged with white ; veins at base and above the cell marked 

 with black lines; outer line gently excurved mesially, black, subden- 

 tate, edged without with white; a black line at base of fringe. Hind 

 wing pale semitransparent ocher. Expanse, 20 to 26 mm. 



One male, two females, San Diego, Cal. (G. H. Field) ; two, 

 Thyce Camp, July I ; one, Jacumba, July 3. 



Type. No. 11688, U. S. National Museum. 



Allied to A. lallatalis Hulst, but the outer line is not broken 

 and the hind wings are yellow. Moreover lallatalis is not an 

 Ambesa as the male antennae have a tuft of scales in the bend, 

 not a row of teeth. 



Salebria ochripunctella; n. sp. 



Head and thorax shining gray, shaded with brownish ocherous. 

 Fore wing long and narrow, dark gray, nearly obscuring the markings ; 

 inner line broad, white, clouded, marked with dull ocher; discal dot a 

 round ocherous point, edged below with a black quadrant; outer line 

 pale, obscure, mesially excurved, edged by a dark shading which is 

 most pronounced apically ; a terminal row of dark dots. Hind wing 

 whitish, subpellucid, shaded with fuscous on the costal edge; a double 

 dark line at the base of the fringe. Expanse, 20 to 23 mm. 



Two males, one female, San Diego, Cal. (G. H. Field), 

 October 12 and 20. 



Type. No. 11689, U. S. National Museum. 



Not similar to any species at present referred to the genus 

 that is known to me. 



Sarata umbrella; n. sp. 



Head and thorax ocherous ; abdomen pale gray, sprinkled with black 

 atoms, the apices of the segments ocherous. Wing moderately broad, 



