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NEODACTYLOTA SNELLENELLA Walsingham. 



Dactylota mellenellu Walsingham, Ins. Life, I, 18S8, j). SH. — Riley, Smith's List 



Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5210, 189L 

 Didadylota sndlenella Walsinhjham, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1891, p. 522; 1897, p. 



523.— BuscK, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1900, p. 228, pi. i, fig. 4. 

 Neodactylota snelleneUa Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5643, 1903. 



One male cotype received from Lord Walsino-ham is in the National 

 Museum, from which Plate XXX, tig. 21 is drawn. 



In a letter of October, 19(»0, Lord Walsing-ham has kindh^ criticised 

 mj delineation of this species,^ calling my attention to the faint traces 

 of veins 4 and 5, which are still more noticeable in the following species 

 [Plate XXX, fig. 23]. and later he sent me the sketch of the female 

 hindwing. which is reproduced in Plate XXX, fig. 22. 



I have met with no other specimen of this species, which was described 

 from Arizona. 



NEODACTYLOTA BARBERELLA, new species. 

 Neodacti/lota harherella Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5644, 1903. 



Antennte four-fifths as long as forewings, dark purple, nearly black, 

 with a white longitudinal scale on each joint, forming an interrupted 

 silvery white line fi'om ]>ase to tip. Labial palpi long, slender, 

 recurved; second joint thickened somewhat with smooth appressed 

 scales, purplish l)lack, motled with silvery white scales; terminal joint 

 long, thin, acutely pointed, black, sprinkled with sparse white scales. 

 Tongue robust, covered with scant silvery scales. 



Face, head, and thorax dark purplish brown. Forewings narrow, 

 pointed; basal two-thirds dark purplish brown overlaid with evenly 

 mixed black, red, and whitish scales. At apical third is a transverse, 

 somewhat irregular and not very clearly defined narrow white fascia, 

 outside of which the wing is lighter reddish brown, with strong pur- 

 plish reflexions, flust outside the fascia on the costal edge is a small 

 longitudinal shining salmon red dash; cilia dark purplish gray, with 

 sparse black scales interndxed at base. 



Hindwings as lu'oad as forewings, bilobed, termen deeply excised 

 beneath apex, which forms the upper long narrow-pointed lobe; the 

 lower lobe is much shorter, broad, rounded, and blunt. Color, dark 

 shining purplish gray; cilia lighter gray. 



Abdomen, above, dark purplish brown; l)elow, sprinkled with white 

 scales. 



Legs purplish, nuich sprinkled with white scales; tarsi purplish 

 black, with each joint tipped with white. 



Alar expanse. — 14 mm. 



Habitat. — Williams. Arizona. 



'Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, pi. i, fig. 4. 



