TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 



VOIyUIVIK XXXIII. 



NEW IKORTH AMERICAN TORTRl€ID^. 



BY W. D. KEARFOTT. 



ETetria monophylliaua sp. nov. 



Expanse 15-19 mm. 



Head : whitish-gray, mixed with brown and reddish scales; palpi light brown- 

 ish-fuscous; thorax whitish-gray, striped with shades of brown and bright red 

 scales; autennse light gray ; abdomen missing on all four specimens ; legs whitish, 

 dusted with fuscous. 



Forewing: white on the basal fourth and upper half from base to outer third, 

 the ground color of the lower half, beyond the basal fourth and the apical third 

 is a light pinkish-fawn or salmon. There are two transverse irregular bands of 

 scattered fuscous-brown scales on basal fourth, with a few salmon dots in middle 

 of the outer. There is a broad fuscous-brown fascia, more or less overlaid with 

 salmon from middle of costa, through white ground color only, stopping at the 

 salmon color. On each side of this the costa, in the white area, is evenly dotted 

 with four or five fuscous-brown streaks. Above the salmon of the outer third 

 the costa is narrowly white, on which are two groups of fuscous-brown scales, 

 below each the salmon shade is more intense, of a coppery hue. Extreme edge 

 of dorsum white, dotted with brown. Before a white preciliate line the termen 

 is edged with bright red, slightly enlarged and mixed with a few blackish scales 

 in the middle. Cilia inwardly red, outwardly pink, with a few scattered gray 

 scales. 



Hindwing: pale gray, cilia white, with a gray basal line; underside whitish- 

 dusted with fuscous in apex, cilia white. 



Underside forewing: grayish fuscous, two large white costal spots before apex, 

 cilia leaden, with whitish basal line. 



Four specimens from collections U. S. Nat. Mus. Bearing labels 

 "On Sinns monophylla ;" Coso Valley, May 91, K ;" "Argus Mts., 

 May 91, K." In the Century Atlas both Coso Valley and Argus 

 Mountains are shown in Kern Co., Cal. 



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



TEANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXXIII. (1) JANUARY. 1907. 



