14 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



This species has been wrongly identified as 0. dimidiana SodofF. 

 in almost all collections. Dimidiana is a darker species. It has a 

 spot on costa at inner third, and the blackish area conies much closer 

 to anal angle. It does not have the pale shade from base and the 

 pale spot on dorsum before middle. Have never seen a North 

 American specimen at all like the European dimidiana, and do not 

 believe it occurs on this continent. 



Olethrenfes mana sp. nov. 



Expanse 18 mm. 



Head : ferruginous and black ; palpi pale cinereous, outer end of tuft and apical 

 joint blackish ; antenna brownish-fuscous, blackish at base ; thorax brown, poste- 

 rior tuft black; abdomen fuscous; legs yellowish-white, banded and dusted with 

 blackish-brown. 



Forewing: inner three-fifths yellowish-brown, vertically strigulated with wavy 

 darker brown and fuscous, which on the costa form darker dots; below the fold 

 on the inner half is a whitish shade, with a cluster of long blackish scales on the 

 dorsum before it. The outer two-fifths is creamy-white, with a shade of fine fus- 

 cous dots before apex, divided by a line of raised shining cream-white scales ; 

 there is a small patch of leaden scales above middle of wing at end of cell, sur- 

 rounded by a ring of white raised scales, with a small tuft of the same above and 

 below, the latter running to anal angle and continued along termen to middle. 

 There is a leaden spot in middle of wing near end of cell and another below it 

 on the dorsum, both in the dark area. The dark and whitish areas are rather 

 sharply defined, the division being straight from outer third of costa to middle 

 of dorsum. There are four blackish dots on costa in white area, and black scales 

 are over each vein forming a terminal row, at the apex the black scales are more 

 frequent, Cilia dirty white, becoming fuscous and black at apex. 



Hindwing: smoky brown, cilia white, with a dark basal line; underside 

 creamy-white, mottled and outward strigulated with brownish fuscous. 



Underside forewing: smoky fuscous, dotted with creamy-white along costa and 

 an preapical line of the same shade. 



Two specimens, Black Jack Springs, Texas, Dr. Barnes ; Victo- 

 ria, Texas, April 10th, E. A. Schwartz. 



Should be placed in list between nimbatana Clem, and separatana 

 Kearf. 



Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mus. and my collection. 



Olethreutes rubipnnctana sp. nov. 



Expanse 17-22 mm. 



Head: light brown on top, black in front and over eyes; palpi light brown 

 inside, smoky black outside, apical joint black, tipped with light brown ; thorax 

 centre black, pale fawn at base of tuft, tuft satTron-red. patagia fuscous at base 

 becoming pale fawn outwardly; abdomen grayish-fuscous, tuft pale ochieous; 

 legs yellowish-white, banded and dusted with dark brown. 



Forewing : the outer third pinkish-white, inner two-thirds mottled with shades 

 of brown and black. In the middle of wing is a large black patch, its upper edge 



