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K. niicrophyNH n. sp. — Expands 14 mm. Palpi and front Jet lilack ; sum- 

 mit between tlie antenuiP pure white ; collar blackish ; thorax dark {fray. Ab- 

 domen dark gray, interlined with blaokisli ; all wings light gray, very tliickly 

 powdered with blackish and fuscous scales giving a general dark gray color, this 

 varying in intensity a little, and thus showing faintly a broad extra basal band 

 running nearly parallel with outer margin, also a slight lightening into a sub- 

 marginal shading parallel with margin, the hind wings continuing these; discal 

 spots blackish, fairly distinct; beneatli mucli as above, but more fuscous and le,ss 

 clear. 



Pananiint Valley, Culiforiiia. From Dr. Kiley, taken hy Mf. 

 Koebele on the Death Valley Ex])e(lition. In >.'ational Museum 

 collection. 



E. <lelieata n. sp. — Ex])ands 17 mm. l'ali>i and front fuscous otther; thorax 

 ochreous, as is also the abdomen ; all wings straw ochreous ; fore wings extended, 

 pointed, very rounded at anal angle giving the wings an almost even lanceolate 

 form ; a black, rather broad ba.sal line, angulated outwardly on cell, from thence 

 straight to inner margin ; a blackish intra-discal band and a black extra-discal 

 line slightly bent outward beyond di.scal spot and inward near inner margin; a 

 submarginal fuscous cloud, broadest at vein 6 and between veins Sand 5; hind 

 wings with the middle and outer lines and the submarginal shading of the fore 

 wings continued, the shading broadest between veins 2 and 4. and between 6 and 

 7 : beneath as above, but fainter. 



Las Cruces, New Mex., from Mr. C'ockereil. 



K. iiiinbicolor n. sp. — Expands 17 mm. — Palpi dark fuscous gray; front 

 blackish ; thorax gray. Abdomen fuscous gra.v. Wings even light ash-gray, with 

 three not very distinct black wavy cross-lines, generally showing in scattered 

 black scales, one intra-discal, another extra-discal. rather broad, showing more 

 distinctly at costa and on the wings; a third line outer, finer, very indistinct on 

 fore wings, except at costa; more distinct in bia-jk dots on hind wings: discal 

 S5)(>t on hind wings faint, on fore wings not evident ; l)elow even cinereous. 



Florida, taken in April. 



K. lancewlata n. sp. — Expands 18-20 nun. Very much in coloration and 

 ajipearance as Kois nivalis, the wings scarcely so extended and pointed. Palpi 

 gray, blackish on tip ; front and thorax whit(\ with an intermixture of blackish 

 scales. Abdomen white, with interlining of fuscous: all wings white, with .scat- 

 tered fuscous scales a little thicker in spots and lines ; a broad intra-di.scal fuscous 

 cros.s-line, not very distinct, and the submarginal space fuscous, inner edge even, 

 parsillel with outer margin : hind wings witli corresjjonding bands, marginal lines 

 fuscous, narrow, fringes white, with scattered dark scales; beneath as above, 

 more clear and distinct. 



Arirus Mountains, California, April, from Dr. Kiley, and taken 

 by Mr. Koebele on, I believe, the Death Valley Expedition. In 

 National Museum collection. 



K. rul'oscons n. s]). — Expands 20 mm. Palpi whitish, fuscous tinged ; front 

 the s;inie color : thorax ochreous fuscous. Abdomen ochreous; fore wings rusty 

 ochreous, even in color, with bhickish discal spot and faint iii(Ii<"itions in a liglil- 



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