June, 1906.] DYAR I NYMPHULIN^E AND SCOPARIINjE 91 



An angular white spot above middle of inner margin claudialis. 



This spot not present slossonalis. 



Fore wing with the subterminal mark a costo-apical dash diminishing below ; 

 markings of confused lines. 

 Fore wing with defined silvery white patches, especially an angular one 

 above inner margin ; marginal dots of hind wings pupilled..magnificalis. 

 Fore wing variable but without this patch ; marginal dots of hind wing not 

 ocellate. 

 Hind wing with a white area before the marginal dots. 



Small ; no yellow beyond mesial line on hind wing fulicalis. 



Larger ; a yellow extra-mesial bar cronialis. 



Hind wings all dark gray to the margin , .schaefferalis. 



Elophila brunnildalis, new species. 

 Fore wings dark brown, lighter in median space and about anal angle ; no lines 

 visible on basal portion: inner line near middle, dark, slender, slightly waved, nar- 

 rowly separated from the basal dark area by a light space ; outer line at outer third, 

 erect, dentate, slender, dark, relieved without by a light space ; there is a faint indi- 

 cation of a line from its middle towards outer margin, being the remains of the out- 

 curve seen in onyxalis Hampson, but here almost completely obsolete ; an illy 

 defined pale submarginal line. Hind wings sordid gray, darker before antemesial 

 pale area, which limits a faint mesial dark wavy line that joins the discal ringlet ; 

 space beyond gray without any black scaling ; marginal black spots from apex to 

 middle in a gray field, with some metallic scales, edged within by a slender wavy 

 black line, that runs submarginally to anal angle. Expanse, 18-22 mm. 



Three 9 9' Walters Station, California, April, from Mr. W. D. 

 Kearfott, presumably collected by G. H. Huston ; one type in the 

 U. S. National Museum, two in Mr. Kearfott' s collection. 



Type no. 9784, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Elophila bifascialis Robinson. 



Cataclysta bifascialis Robinson, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. , ix, 154, 1869. 

 Cataclysta bifascialis Grote, New ch. list No. Am. moths, 54, 1882. 

 Cataclysta bifascialis Fernald, Smith, list. Lep. bor. Am., No. 4156, 1891. 

 Cataclysta bifascialis Hampson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 149, 1897. 

 Elophila bifascialis Fernald, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 4499, 1903. 



Wings long and narrow ; fore wing finely powdered with black on a white 

 ground ; a mesial ocherous band edged with gray, cut by a white line on costal half ; 

 four ocher bands occupying distal third of wing, converging on tornus and separated 

 apically by two white wedge-shaped marks ; the subterminal one shades below into 

 metallic scales ; fringe gray. Hind wing white ; a terminal series of round black 

 spots edged with a metallic terminal line ; a costo-discal black bar, submaculate, 

 resting on a sordid costal area ; a discal orange mark bordered basally and outwardly 

 by an oblique gray bar with metallic sheen ; inner area white with a gray spot above 

 tornus. Expanse 12 to 18 mm. 



