92 Journal New York Entomological Society. l Vo1 X1V - 



Texas (Robinson). 



4 specimens, one labelled Texas (coll. Prof. C. H. Fernald) ; 17, 

 Texas (Belfrage) ; Victoria, Texas, March 22, 27, 31 (E. A. 

 Schwarz) ; Kerville, Tex. (W. Barnes) ; Roswell, N. Mex., August 

 22 (T. D. A. Cockerell) ; Harpers Ferry, Va., August 29, 1888 (T. 

 Pergande) ; Plummer's Island, Md. (A. Busck). 



Ab. a. The fore wings are reddish brown, obscuring the markings. 



Texas. 



Ab. b. The costo-discal bar of hind wings is light bluish gray, edged with black. 



Texas. 



Ab. c. kearfottalis, new variety. Hind wings with the black bar replaced by 

 two wavy black lines, filled by the white ground color ; a broken black line between 

 this and the outer marginal spots in three of the specimens. 



3, Phcenix, Arizona, May (R. E. Kunze) ; 1, without label (coll. 

 W. D. Kearfott). 



Type no. 9637, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



I have seen no reference to the larva of this species. 



Elophila drumalis, new species. 



Silvery white ; fore wings shaded with pale ocher, leaving two outer lines which 

 converge toward tornus ; a broad inner yellowish band. Hind wing with a pale 

 yellow inner spot and a discal one ; outer margin with the black spots diffused, 

 separated by metallic scales, duplicated within by a series of short black lines. 

 Expanse 10 mm. 



i 9> Fort Drum, Florida (U. S. Dept. Agr.). 

 Type no. 9491, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Elophila claudialis Walker. 



Cataclysta claudialis Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., xvii, 437, 1859. 

 Cataclysta medicinalis Grote, Pap., i, 15, 1881. 



Chrysendeton medicinalis Grote, new ch. list No. Am. moths, 54, [882. 

 Chrysendeton claudialis Fernald, Smith list Lep. bor. Am., no. 4153, 1891. 

 Chrysendeton claudialis Hart, bull. 111. Sta. lab. nat. hist., iv, 174, 1895. 

 Cataclysta medicinalis Hampson, Trans, ent. soc. Lond., 149, 1897. 

 Cataclysta claudialis Hampson, Trans, ent. soc. Lond., 151, 1897. 

 Elophila claudialis Fernald, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4498, 1903. 



Fore wings brown-gray ; a white subbasal band narrowed to costa ; a rounded, 

 triangular white patch in centre of wing ; an oblique mark from outer third of costa ; 

 a subterminal white line, not attaining anal margin angle; a terminal yellow line. 

 Hind wing white ; a mesial brown-gray band narrow centrally, subfurcate on costa ; 

 containing a small ocherous space ; disk powdered with black scales ; a terminal row 

 of round black spots with some metallic scales, set in a yellow margin. Expanse II, 

 to 13 mm. 



