Busck — Notes on Some Totiricid Genera 17' 



1. Dorsal spot with narrow dark line through middle . . 2. 

 Dorsal spot without such line nipitinin 



2. Fore wings with ocheronsocelloid patch iiimiKtiia 



Fore wings without such patch hriUnia 



3. Fore wings dark brown without yellow patch 4. 



Fore wings not dark brown, or, if so, with yellow 



markings 5. 



4. Fore wings with yellow irroration ftcdataua 



Fore wings without such piperana 



5. Fore wings with semicircular yellow dorsal spo t . . . . sinvilnnd 

 Fore wings without such spot 6. 



6. Fore wings with black, undulating, transverse lines . . 7. 

 Fore wings without such lines 8. 



7. Apical part of fore wings purplish iihuiniiiriaiHi 



Apical part of fore wings not purplish IfoixmlniKi 



8. Fore wings light golden yellow hlttaua 



Fore wings tawny rudicokina 



Hemimene sedatana sp. nov. 



Labial palpi yellow, with apex of brush and terminal joint dark fuscous. 

 Head and thorax dark fuscous. Fore wings in male witliout fold ; termen 

 slightly sinuate, dark brownish fuscous, irrorated with sparse, single yel- 

 low scales ; costa obscurely ornamented with outwardly oblique, blackish 

 brown streaks, intervened by yellowish white spots, from which very faint 

 bluish-metallic lines run obliquely outwards and then abruptly downwards 

 and inwards ; edging the three more prominent of these blue lines below 

 are very thin lines of single, deep black scales ; along lower part of termen 

 are four deep black dots. Cilia light, shining fuscous with a dirty white 

 line through the middle. Hind wings dark brownish fuscous; underside 

 with the strong greenish iridescence usual in this group of moths. Abdo- 

 men dark brown ; anal tuft yellowish. 



Alar expanse : 14 mm. 



Habitat. — South Park, Colorado (Oslar). 



Ttipe.—Msi\e. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 10,130. 



This, I believe, is the species mistaken for phunhana Scopoli, which it 

 greatly resembles, but from which it differs by the less profuse irroration 

 of yellow scales and by the presence of the narrow, angulated, deep black 

 lines, following the course of the metallic blue lines. 



Hemimene piperana sp. nov. 

 Labial palpi brownish yellow, with dark brown tips. Head and thorax 

 yellowish brown. Fore wings in male witliout costal fold; termen nearly 

 straight; dark reddish brown with golden reflections; costa with short, 

 obscure, outwardly oblique, blackit^h striation, with the intervals lighter 

 than the ground color of the wing; at apical third of the costa is an out- 

 wardly oblique, bluish, but hardly metallic, streak to termen below apex 

 and irregular, short, transverse stieaks of the same bluish lead color 

 is found sparingly on the apical portion of the wing ; at lower part of ter- 



