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souri (Coquillett), Texas (Eeinhard), Colorado (Baker, Aldrich, and 

 Webber), Arizona (Coquillett). 



Type.— Female, U.S.N.M. No. 889. Eosorista ceratomiae Coquil- 

 lett, male, U.S.N.M. No. 3601. 



Hosts.— II yphantria cwnea (Drury) 1, Pempelia sp. 2. Ompha- 

 locera cariosa Lederer 1, Loxostege similalis (Guenee) 2, Lagoa 

 crispata Packard, Laphygma frugiperda (Abbott and Smith) 1, 

 Lygris diversilineata Hiibner 1, pyralid 1. Published records not 

 duplicated above: Loxostege similalis (Reinhard), Laphygma fru- 

 giperda (Luginbill), Eucaterva variaria Grote (Townsend), Nym- 

 phalis mUberti (Godart) (Baker, Gillette), Oeratomia wndulosa 

 (Walker) (Riley ), Gloveria howardi (Dyar) (Coquillett), Acrobasis 

 caryae Grote (Leiby). 



Rt marks. — The foregoing description was based on an examina- 

 tion of the following material: Type female reared from H. cwnea, 

 September 1; type and one male paratype of Eosorista ceratomiae 

 reared from Pempelia sp., Fort Worth, Tex., 4357° (Allison) ; one 

 male paratype reared from Omphalocera cariosa, Oswego, Kans., 

 July 2, 1892, 454L° (Newlon) ; one female paratype reared from 

 pyralid, Cadet, Mo., September, 1890, 4730° (Barlow) ; one male reared 

 from Loxostege similaUs, Victoria, Tex. (Quaintance) ; one male 

 reared from L. similalis, Waurika, Okla. (Kelly) ; one female reared 

 from Lagoa crispata, McMecklin, Fla., February 25, 1889, 432° ; one 

 male reared from Lygris diversiUneata, Chillicothe, Tex., September 

 24, 1909, Webster No. 6015 (Greene's type drawing) ; collected speci- 

 mens consisting of seven males and four females (Reinhard, Town- 

 send, and Tucker). 



6. ZENILLIA DESMIAE, new species 



This species resembles Zenillia Ky pliant rim (Townsend) in most 

 respects. 



Male (type). — Front 0.28 head width; frontal row of seven or eight 

 bristles; facial ridge bristly on the lowest two-fifths; third segment 

 or antenna five times length of second; arista thickened on basal one- 

 sixth. 



Legs black with tibiae brownish (contrasting) ; midtibia with one 

 median anterolateral bristle; veins of wing dark brown, almost black. 



Abdomen black heavily covered with gray pollen; dorsum of first 

 segment shining black, not pollinose; the other three segments com- 

 pletely pollinose; first segment with a weak or vestigial pair of mac- 

 rochaetae. Otherwise the description is much the same as for Zenillia 

 hyphantriae. 



Length 7 mm. 



