ART. 13 SOME AMEEICAX MOTHS HEINRICH 11 



black sex scaling, and the front is curiously modified, being deeply 

 grooved to hold the closely appressed, upturned palpi. 



Alar expanse. — 9 to 12 mm. 



Type. — In National Museum collection. 



Type ?om?^Y?/.— Tantalus, Oahu, T. H. 



Food plant. — Lantana {Lantana). 



CROCIDOSEMA PLEBEIANA Zeller 



Plate 7. Figure 23 



Female genitalia figured from specimen in National Museum col- 

 lection reared from Malvavisous di^mmondiU Smith Point, Tex., 

 December 10, 1918 (H. S. Barber). 



ANCHYLOPERA BRAUNI, new species 

 Plate 5, Figitre 16 



Description. — A whitish ocherous species with argus-brown basal 

 patch and a black shading on costa beyond middle ; close and similar 

 to dcflnitivana Heinrich, but easily distinguished by male genitalia. 



Palpus sordid white, the outer side sparsely dusted with blackish 

 fuscous. Head and thorax argus-brown ; tegula whitish ocherous at 

 base. Fore wing with basal half of costa and tornal area whitish 

 ocherous, the white in tornal area more or less suffused with brown ; 

 a few indistinct short brown strigulae on costa before middle; on 

 costa beyond middle an outwardly slanting blackish band suffusing 

 with a pair of longitudinal black streaks at end of cell, these latter 

 occupying the upper third of a slanting, oblong, brown patch, which 

 entends below the cell to vein 2; dark basal patch with a black 

 shading toward costal margin, with costal margin sharply angled at 

 middle and with outer margin decidedly slanting and slightly 

 notched ; cilia fuscous with a whitish band at base. Hind wing dark 

 smoky fuscous, pale toward base ; cilia pale smoky fuscous with a 

 dark basal band. 



Male genitalia figured from type. 



Alar expanse. — 12 to 14 mm. 



Type and pwratypes. — U.S.X.M. No. 43259; paratypes also in 

 American Museum of Natural History and Miss Braun's collections. 



Typ)e locality. — Beaver Pond, Adams County, Ohio. 



Food plant. — Buckthorn {Rhamnus Innceolata). 



Remarks. — Described from male type and 2 male and 4 female 

 paratypes from the type locality (labeled "¥-11-27."' "¥11-10-27," 

 " VII-12-27," " VII-13-27," " VII-14-27 " under number " B1305 ") ; 

 4 female paratypes from Clermont County, Ohio (labeled " IV-1 " 

 and " IV-4-16 " under number " B897 ") ; and 3 male paratypes from 

 Champaign County, Ohio ("V-11-29"). We are indebted to Dr. 



