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CRAMBIDAE. 



Genus Eromene. Hiibner. 

 Eromene tetaaia. sp nov. (Plate 1. fig. 5.) 



Head, thorax, and palpi, testaceous. 



Anterior wings dark testaceous, crossed beyond the middle 

 by two straight parallel ochreous hands narrowly separated by 

 a line of pale shining scales. Two narrow white bands sepa- 

 rated by a line of dark testaceous scales, commencing on the 

 costa at apical third, run obliquely outwardly tojusf before the 

 external margin at one-third below the apex, thence obliquely 

 inwardlv parallel to external margin to before internal ansle. 

 Below the angle formed by these lines there is a Bubterminal 

 row of black spots, eight in number, heavily margined out- 

 wardly by aggregations of brilliant metallic scales, which, 

 counting from above, unite the first spot with the second : the 

 third with' the fourth; the fifth, sixth, and seventh, leaving 

 the eighth at internal angle single. The space beyond the 

 central bands is freely dusted with dark Bcales. Frii 

 white. 



Posterior wings pure shining white, except a narrow termi- 

 nal testaceous line. Fringes white. 



Under surface of both pairs of wing- white. 



Expanse. 20 millimetres. 



Habitat— Texas. April 25th. (G. W. Belfrage.) 



The hitherto described specie- of Eromene inhabit [taly and 

 other countries on either side of the Mediterranean. /. ! ana 

 is allied to K ramburiella (Zeller), hut the anterior wing 

 our North American species are more elongate, the a] 

 acute, and the central transverse bands crow jnsl the 



outer third, while in the European species they cross the 

 middle of the wing. 



GELECHIDAE. 



< renufl 1 )i i'i:i 96 iBi \. 1 [aworth. 

 Depre**aria cinereocostella, Clemens. (Plate I, fig. 



6.) 



