98 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Vol. xiv. 



Diathrausta octomaculalis Fernald, Ent. Amer., iii, 127, 1887. 



Diathrausta pisusalis Fernald (not Walker), Smith list Lep. bor. Am., no. 3985, 



1891. 

 Diathrausta reconditalis Hampson, Trans, ent. soc. Lond., 205, 1897. 

 Diathrausta reconditalis Fernald, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4503, 1903. 



Brownish black ; inner line curved, ocherous ; outer excurved over cell, sometimes 

 broken, ocherous; three quadrate white dots in the position of reniform, orbicular and 

 claviform ; fringe white, black patched at middle of margin. Hind wing with round 

 white discal spot ; outer line ocherous above, white towards inner angle. Expanse 

 15 to 18 mm. 



New York (Walker) ; Pa., N. Y., Ont., July 3, 1886 (Fernald). 



No. 253 (coll. Prof. C. H. Fernald) ; Watchung Mts., N. J., 

 June 19, 1899 (W. D. Kearfott) ; New Brighton, Pa., September 29, 

 1902 (H. D. Merrick) ; New Haven, Conn. (A. H. Verrill) ; Ft. 

 Collins. Col., August 9, 1898 (C. P. Gillette) ; Chimney Gulch, 

 Golden, Col., July 15, 1904 (E. J. Oslar) ; Las Vegas Hot Springs, 

 New Mexico (Schwarz & Barber) ; Santa Rita Mts., Pima Co., Ari- 

 zona (O. C. Poling). 



Genus PILETOCERA Lederer. 

 Piletocera Lederer, Wien. Ent. Mon., 431, 1863. 

 Piletocera Hampson, Trans, ent. soc. Lond., 209, 1897. 



Palpi upturned, the second joint moderately fringed with scales in front and 

 reaching vertex of head, the 3d obtuse ; maxillary palpi extremely minute ; frons 

 rounded ; antennae of male (in our species) normal and ciliated; tibia; with the outer 

 spurs two thirds the length of inner. Fore wings with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of 

 cell ; 7 well separated from 8, 9, 10. Hind wing narrow, the cell short ; veins 3, 4, 

 5 from angle, 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Hampson places under Piletocera eight other genera which differ 

 in the modifications of the male antennae. He recognizes them as 

 subgenera. Section VIII, in which he puts our species, has no name 

 and, on the usual supposition that these secondary sexual characters 

 are of generic value, it appears that our species is without a genus. 

 I am, however, retaining it in Piletoeera. This genus has the anten- 

 nas of male with a slight tuft and distortion at middle, the fore wing 

 with a small postmedial lobe on costa, the membrane distorted ; legs 

 naked. 



Piletocera bufalis Guenee. 

 Stenia bufalis Guenee, Spec. Gen., viii, 245, 1854. 

 Botys stercoralis Moschler, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien., xxxi, 419, 1881. 

 Piletocera bufalis Hampson, Trans, ent. soc. Lond., 214, 1897. 



