106 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Orthodes keela nov. sp. 



Head, thorax and primaries red-brown; head with a paler, more yellowish shad- 

 ing. Secondaries and abdomen smoky. Primaries with all the normal markings 

 traceable, but none of them distinct or well written. Basal line geminate, smoky, 

 obscm^e, included space with a few yellowish scales. T.a. line geminate, smoky, 

 obliquely outcurved, with small outcurves in the interspaces, some pale scales in the 

 included space over the costal region, the line tending to become obscure below the 

 middle. T.p. line geminate, blackish, only a httle bent over cell, then almost evenly 

 parallel with outer margin; inner portion more or less lunulate; outer, punctiform 

 below costal region. An outwardly curved smoky median shade. S.t. line marked 

 by scattered yellow scales and by a continuous, narrow, blackish preceding shade, 

 only a little irregular in course. A broken, yellowish terminal line. Orbicular 

 small, obscurely outlined by yellowish scattered scales. Reniform small, narrow, 

 oblique, a little constricted, outlined and partly filled by yellow scales, with a black- 

 ish superior dot and a dark inferior filling. Secondaries uniformly smoky with a 

 bronze luster, the fringes more yellowish. Beneath, primaries with disk smoky, 

 lustrous, the margins yellowish with reddish powderings; secondaries yellowish 

 with reddish powderings, with a smoky broken outer band and a smoky discal lunule. 



Expands 1.07-1.15 in. = 27-29 mm. 



Habitat: Palmerly, Cochise County, Arizona, August. 



One male and one female, in good condition; from the collection of the 

 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. The male is the smaller of the 

 two, more deeply colored and less distinctly marked. The species is an 

 ally of vecors, and ranges next to it in Hampson's Catalogue, under Eriopyga. 

 It is narrower winged, however, much more uniformly tinted, with more 

 even median lines and a different s.t. line. In wing-form it is nearer to 

 imora Strck., which is darker lustrous, and has the maculation reduced to 

 a small gray reniform. 



Faronta nov. gen. 



Eyes haiiy, large, round, globose, not overhung by long cilia. Tongue fully- 

 developed. Front roughened, slightly protuberant, without processes or excisions. 

 Palpi straight; temiinal joint very short, poorly developed, not projecting much 

 beyond front; the second joint with short vestiture. Antennae in male, ciliated; 

 in female, simple. Thorax convex, rounded; vestiture hairy, forming no tufts, 

 rather smoothly laid. Legs moderate in length, strong, without spines or other 

 unusual annature on tibiae or tarsi; tibise in the male more thickly clothed with 

 hair, but forming no obvious tufts. Abdomen smoothly clothed, without tufts or 

 fringes of any kind, stout, extending well beyond the hind angle of secondaries. 

 Primaries elongate, narrow, sub-lanceolate, the apex not acutely drawn out, margin 

 gently rounded, venation normal. Secondaries proportionate. 



Differs from Leucania in the stout convex thorax and long stout abdomen, 

 as well as the narrow elongate wings. From Neleucania it differs in the 



