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crosses the wing, straight, white; a small mark on costa beyond; two 

 wedge-shaped spots subapically, converging below, separating three 

 white dashes, the brown marks fading to yellow below; a broad yellow 

 terminal band, joining at tornus an oblique wedge-shaped mark from 

 the end of the cell; four erect yellow bars on inner margin, the outer 

 cutting the mark from the cell and enclosing a metallic silvery patch 

 above tornus, the second one small, the other two reaching the cell ; 

 subterminal white line silvery below. Hind wing with a short broad 

 yellow bar in the disk, preceded and followed by silver scales, the 

 area between the outer silver patch and the margin to apex again 

 yellow; four or five illy separated black spots on the margin, separated 

 by silvery metallic scales and preceded by partly confluent black arcs. 

 Expanse, 14 to 16 mm. 



Thirteen specimens, Devil's River, Tex., May 5 and 6, 1907 

 (Bishopp & Pratt). 



Type. No. 11845, U. S. National Museum. 



At first sight this looks like E. fulicalis Clem., except for 

 its pale yellowish color, but the markings of the hind wings are 

 different. 



Subfamily CRAMBIN.E. 



Dicymolomia opuntialis, n. sp. 



Silvery gray; head, thorax, and secor 1 joint of abdomen shaded with 

 orange-fulvous. Wings silvery gray; jre wing with the base fulvous- 

 orange, followed by a broad straight band of this color; a faint wavy 

 narrow black line with an orange blotch on costa; a small black discal 

 mark; a fine black outer line excurved over cell, angled on submedian, 

 with an orange blotch on costa ; a shaded orange submarginal band ; 

 a curved white costal subapical bar; followed by orange; fringe dark 

 gray; hind wing with five black dumb-bell-shaped marginal spots, 

 separated by metallic scales and shaded with dull orange within, the 

 rest of the wing irrorate with black, silvery gray. Expanse, 13 mm. 



One female, San Diego, Cal., issued September 8, 1905. 

 Type. No. 9780, U. S. National Museum. 



Subfamily PHYCITIN^:. 



Ephestiodes mignonella, n. sp. 



Light gray. The fore wing has a black stripe on the costa at base; 

 inner line well removed from the base, white, edged with black with- 

 out, especially on costal half, nearly erect, slightly indented on sub- 

 median fold; discal dots black, joined; outer line black within, white 

 without, oblique, rigid, with a slight outward point at median vein ; 

 in several of the specimens a subbasal black dash on median vein ; 



