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drooping, the second joint with long scales below; tongue rudimentary. 

 Fore wing with veins 2 to 4 separate, 6 from near the upper angle 

 of the cell, 7 to 9 stalked, 10 and n from the cell, free. Hind wing 

 with the cell long, 2 to 5 separate, 6 and 7 from upper angle of the 

 cell, 8 running close to 7 but not anastomosing. 



Type. Anerastia cestalis Hulst (lately referred to Aglossa). 



According to Sir G. F. Hampson's table, this genus would 

 fall in the Crambinae, but I have given more weight to the 

 venation than to the hair-pecten of the hind wing and scaling 

 of the maxillary palpi, which I think are more superficial char- 

 acters, and accordingly place the genus in the Pyralinse. 



Uscodys cestalis Hulst. 



Oracle, Arizona, July n (E. A. Schwarz) ; Tucson, Arizona^ 

 June 22 (E. A. Schwarz) ; Ariz., sent to Lord Walsingham 

 and labelled by him " Pyralidina " 4747 Wlsm. 1906. 



Uscodys atalis, n. sp. 



Similar to cestalis Hulst, the markings of the fore wing being prac- 

 tically identical. The species is smaller, the color of the fore wings 

 brighter gray without a brown tint, the abdomen and hind wings 

 whitish scaled, not fuscous, the hind wing powdered with gray out- 

 wardly and with a blackish terminal line. Expanse, 20 to 22 mm. 



Nineteen specimens, Yuma Co., Ariz., desert, March 26, 

 April 10 (W. D. Kearfott) ; southern Arizona, May 15-30 

 (O. C. Poling) ; Yavapai Co., Ariz. ; Walters Station, Cal., 

 April i ; Sapelo Canyon, New Mexico, July 27, 1902 (E. J. 

 Oslar) ; Gallinas Canyon, New Mexico (E. J. Oslar). 



Type. No. 11929, U. S. National Museum. 



The specimens have all come through the kindness of Mr. 

 Kearfott. His various attempts to name the species are at- 

 tested by a number of labels, which bear witness to the aberrant 

 character of this confusing species. One label reads " close to 

 Salebria, probably new," another " tails f probably," this last 

 attributed to Professor Fernald and presumably referring to 

 Crete's " bright purple " Botls tails from Alabama, through 

 what confusion it would be hard to say. 



