80 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



Three specimens : Cochise Co., Ariz., Aug. 1st, from Geo. Franck ; 

 Las Vegas, N. Max., U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Huachuca Mountains, 

 Ariz., Aug. 8th to 19th; collector, Dr. W. Barnes; received from 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Phalonia vachelliana sp. nov. 



Expanse 13-17.5 mm. 



Head: ochveous above and in front, dark brown on side; palpi ochreous, 

 blackish-brown outside; antenna gray; tburax black; abdomen gray; legs yel- 

 lowish-white, powdered and banded with blackish-brown. 



Forewing; inner two-thirds grayish-black, outer third cream color. A shade 

 of light brown and cream, mixed with black scales, crosses the dark area from 

 inner fourth of dorsum to costa ; it spreads outwardly below costa to inner third. 

 There is a rectangular black costal spot in middle of light area; in middle of 

 wing below it is a smaller blackish spot, and a third one on dorsum before anal 

 angle. Inside of the latter is a brown spot, outlined with cream-white. The 

 light area is shaded with' waves of a slightly darker color and with a shining 

 cream-white line. At the apex is a small blackish shade and a faint spot on costa 

 before apex. Cilia cream -white. 



Hindwing: gray; underside darker gray, with indistinct darker dots. Under- 

 side forewing smoky black; cilia ochreous, preceded by a broad, blackish line 

 and a narrow ochreous line. 



Eight specimens : Cisco, Placer Co., Cal., April and June ; col- 

 lected by Arthur H. Vachell. 



Phalonia listerana sp. nov. 



Expanse 11-12 mm. 



Head and thorax coppery-brown; face, base of antenna, and palpi pale ochre- 

 ous; abdomen fuscous; legs whitish, dusted with dark bi'own. 



Forewing: base, middle fascia, and fascia before termen coppery-brown, 

 streaked across top of cell with ochreous, and usually outlined with ochreous. 

 The interspaces, consisting of a fascia at inner fourth and one from beyond mid- 

 dle of costa to anal angle, purple madder. The basal area is from inner fifth of 

 costa to inner fifth of dorsal margin, outwardly convex. It is somewhat overlaid 

 with purple madder towards base. The middle fascia is from middle of costa 

 constricted a third below, then broadens to double its costal width at dorsum, 

 where it extends from a little beyond middle to anal angle. The outer brown 

 fascia occupies all of the outer fourth on costa. Its outer edge is straight to lower 

 third of termen ; its inner edge, a third below costa, curves outward, then down- 

 ward to termen above.apex. Between this and termen is a narrow band of purple 

 madder, which latter color overflows in the cilia. 



Hindwing: smoky black; cilia grayish-white, underside- dark gray. Under- 

 side forewing dark smoky brown ; outer ends of cilia dull ochreous. 



Four specimens : Nicholson, Pa., July 4th and 6th, A. E. Lister. 



Olethreiites islandaiia sp. nov. 



Expanse 14-15 mm. 



Head, palpi, antenna, and thorax light ochreous-brown ; thorax darker brown 

 in front ; abdomen yellowish-gray ; anal tuft pale ochreous ; legs yellowish-white ■ 

 front tarsi handed with blackish-brown. 



