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Proleopteryx faracana sp. nov. 



Expanse 18-19 mm. 



Head and palpi coppery -brown ; antenna gray; thorax bronzy-gray, patagia 

 streaked with white; abdomen gray, anal tuft light ocbreous; legs whitish, 

 dusted and banded with bronzy-black. 



Forewing: no male costal fold, light bluish-gray, shaded with ochreons below 

 costa at base. The basal area and other marks are bronzy-black. The basal 

 area is strongest below middle, where its outer edge touches dorsum at inner 

 fourth and outer end at inner third in middle of wing. The lower half between 

 basal patch and ocellus is bronzy-black, crossed by two horizontal whitish-gray 

 lines, one on the fold and the other half way between fold and dorsum. From 

 inner fourth of wing a streak of bionzy-black parallels costa one-third below to 

 before apex. Above this streak is bluish-gray, crossed at inner fourth, middle 

 and outer third by dark lines from costa, which run into the dark streak below. 

 Between these the costa is dotted with short dark dashes. The three dark costal 

 dashes before apex send strigulated' lines, the inner, in connection with the ocel- 

 lic black dots, as a continuous line to anal angle, the middle one to middle of 

 dorsum, the outer one curves under apex. The apical spot is black, with brown 

 center. The ocellic sjiot is large, shining gray on the sides, dirty white in cen- 

 ter, with a vertical line of black dots. Between the ocellus and termen is a 

 narrow band of speckled gray and brown, increasing in width above middle and 

 running into apical spot. Cilia shining leaden. 



Hindwing: light grayish-brown, cilia whitish, with darker basal line; under- 

 side the same, mottled with fuscous along costa. 



Underside forewing: smoky gray, whitish on costa and dotted with brown. 



Two specimens: Scranton, Pa., April 21st and 22d, A. E. Lister. 

 This may be a variety of P. spoliana Clem. 



Proteoptfrj-x albicapilana sp. nov. 



Expanse, California specimens, 20 mm.; Pennsylvania specimen, 17 mm. 



Head : with scales long and forming a flattened crest on top and in front, con- 

 cealing basal joints of autennfe; the scales in front, on the sides of the head, 

 around the eyes, the patagia and a narrow edging on each side of thorax are 

 blackish-brown ; from top of head to postcriof end of thorax the scales are pure 

 white. Palpi scarcely twice length of head, slightly depressed, flattened, lower 

 edge of tuft in nearly a straight line from base to tip of outer joint, which is 

 not quite hidden, but is obscured above more than below; scales above in a 

 well-rounded hump. Color: outwardly dark brown, flecked with dark ciner- 

 eous; within and above at base white, brown extending over the outer half of 

 upper and lower edges and slightly encroaching on the paler color. Male 

 antennae slightly dentate, finely ciliated beneath, female antennas simple, purp- 

 lish-brown. Abdomen very pale brown or faded straw color, with a band of 

 whitish scales on each segment. Legs same, annulated with brown. Abdo- 

 men of eastern specimen much darker, yellowish-fuscous. 



Forewing: blackish- or dark purple-brown, excepting a pure white dorsal band 

 about one-third width of middle of wing. This white band sends up into the 

 ground color three spurs: first, at its beginning close to but not touching base; 

 second, at inner third ; and third, at outer third before ocellic spot. The white 



TR.\NS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXXIII. FEBRUARY, 1907. 



