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witliiii, with more diffuse fuscous or reddish fuscous witliout. A row of mar- 

 ginal black points generally strongly dentate at middle portion of wing, and 

 reaching sometimes to outer shadow line. A short longitudinal black dash at 

 the center of the outer middle field edged with white. Hind wings light ocher 

 fuscous, pellucid. Beneath fuscon^on fore wings. Hind wings as above. 



Arizona. 



This insect was taken by nie at Prescott, Arizona, under circum- 

 stances which make it almost certain tliat the food-plant is a species 

 of Ceanothus. They were taken the first week in July, and were 

 flying in and about the bushes during the hot sunshine of midday. 



13. S. odioi^ella Hulst, Ento. Am. iii, 132, 1887 {Nephopteryx). —Ex\Min6i^ 

 24 — 25 mm. Head, thorax and fore wings white, with scattered black and fus- 

 cous scales, giving a brownish cast. Maxillary palpi with hair pencil at end, of 

 a yellow brown color. Abdomen rather more fuscous than thorax. Fore wings 

 wit!) white basal band, shadowed at costa outwardly, and at inner margin in- 

 wardly, with blackish, which is broad at the respective margins, and becomes 

 obsolete before crossing the wing. A black diffuse, somewhat kidney-shaped 

 discal spot. Outer line white, shadowed with black on both sides, the shadows 

 becoming broad and heavy at costa. The line is more bent than usual at the 

 middle. A marginal row of black spots pointed inwardly. Hind wings white, 

 with an ocher cast, pellucid. Beneath fore wings faintly fuscous, yellowish 

 along costa. Hind wings as above. 



Central Texas. 



14. S. celtidolla n. sp. — Female expands 19 mm. Labial palpi ochreous 

 fuscous, fuscous at tip; head ochreous; thorax dark fuscous; abdomen ochreous, 

 annulated with fuscous; fore wings ochreous; base with a reddish tinge, other- 

 wise clear ochreous, then a broad blackish band tinged with brownish red poste- 

 riorly, extending to basal line; basal line fine, rather broken, very much and 

 irregularly waved dentate, and at the middle of the wing; middle field blackish, 

 reddish along inner margin, opening to ochreous gray at discal spots; the upjjer 

 discal spot faint, the lower distinct; outer line very wavy dentate, broken, 

 whitish, the color showing as an edging for the shading scallops; outer shading 

 of long, dentate, jet-black dashes on veins ; outer field deep ochreous, marginal 

 spots jet-black, rather large; fringe fuscous gray. Hind wings dark fuscous, 

 veins and margin darker. 



Mr. Beutenmiiller has rai.sed this insect upon Celtis ocddenta/is. 

 He has furnished me with the following description : 



"Lakva. — Head pitchy-black, flattened, with an irregular dirty white, oblique 

 stripe on each side, running from labrum to collar at summit; there are also 

 other fine irregular white markings present; body pale green, covered with pea- 

 green, equidistant, longitudinal stripes, as broad as the intervening spaces. Cer- 

 vical shield pitchy-black, on which the stripes of the body continue as dirty 

 white ; along the subdorsal region on both sides a row of minute black spots, and 

 two rows placed closely together on the sides, which are also minute and jet- 

 black ; body beneath green, without markings; the color of the cervical shield 



