184 PROG. ENT. SOC. WASH., VOL. XIV, 1912. 



TWO NEW CALIFORNIAN ACROLOPHID^. 



(Lepidoptera.) 

 BY AUGUST BUSCK 

 Acrolophus diversus, new species. 



Labial palpi as in the abandoned genus Neolophits Wlsm., short, erect, 

 reaching vertex; joints nearly equal in length, first and second slightly 

 tufted, third smooth; dark brown, each scale tipped with ocherous. Face, 

 head, and thorax ashy brown with ocherous scale-tips. Fore wings light 

 ocherous brown with bluish black markings consisting of a series of equi- 

 distant costal dots, which is continued into a paler subterminal row; a 

 large black second discal spot crossing the fold on the middle of the wing; 

 the upper third of the wing is somewhat darker than the lower two-thirds 

 and the entire wing is dotted with faint black transverse striations in longi- 

 tudinal rows. Cilia light ocherous with equidistant black tufts. Hind 

 wings blackish fuscous with an ocherous submarginal line. Abdomen 

 blackish fuscous with ocherous anal tuft. Legs blackish brown with 

 ocherous annulations on the tarsal joints; front tibiae with long external 

 scale tuft. 



In some specimens the ornamentation on the fore wing is much less 

 pronounced than in others and the black striation is sometimes obsolete, 

 but the black costal dots and the two discal and plical spots persist. 



Alar expanse, 27 to 28 mm. 



Habitat: San Diego, California, July (Geo. H. Field, col- 

 lector). 



Type: No. 15122, U. S. Nat. Mus.; cotype in Mr. Field's 

 collection. 



Nearest in pattern and size as well as in the form of the 

 palpi to Acrolophus (Neolophns) persimplex Dyar, from which 

 it differs in the clearer color, more distinct pattern, and less 

 hairy labial palpi. 



Acrolophus hirsutus, new species. 



Labial palpi as in the foregoing species, reaching vertex; ocherous, 

 touched with dark brown. Head and thorax dark ocherous, mottled with 

 black; thorax with short ocherous posterior tuft. Forewings ocherous, 

 strongly suffused and mottled with dark brown and black; a faint series of 

 terminal and costal dark dots, a black second discal spot, preceded and 

 followed by a clear ooherous space, a short oblique plical spot, surrounded 

 by light scales. 



Hind wings dark brown with lighter base and a faint ocherous submar- 

 ginal line. Abdomen dark brown above; anal tuft and under side ocherous. 



Alar expanse, 20 to 22 mm. 



Hibitat: La Puerta Valley, California, June (Geo. H. Field, 

 collector). 



Type: No 15123, U. S. Nat. Mus.; cotype in Mr. Field's 

 collection. 



Actual date of issue, Sept. jo, 1912. 



