42 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xii. 



The type species I have received from Mr. E. J. Oslar, collected 

 in the Catalina Mountains, Arizona. It was described as a Zotheca 

 and transferred to Plagiomimicus by Smith, but seems entitled to a 

 distinct generic name. 



Oxycnemis subsimplex, new species. 



Front slightly roughened, scarcely prominent, without tubercle; eyes large, 

 naked, unlashed ; vestiture scaly, a small upturned tuft at the end of the thorax 

 of dark, non-metallic scales ; male antennae simple ; tibite without spines, the an- 

 terior ones short and broad, corneous, with a large claw at tip and a short outer 

 one ; posterior tibiae short, about equal in length to the femur, spurs normal, large ; 

 size small, form slender. 



Thorax dark gray, collar sordid whitish, tipped with a line of dark gray ; abdo- 

 men very pale brownish, untufted. Fore wing dark gray, t.-a. and t.-p. lines 

 double, blackish, the pair of lines forming each rather remote, the inner one of the 

 t.-a. line and the outer one of the t.-p. line fainter, filled by a slightly paler tint; 

 t.-a. line broadly, slightly thrice waved, t.-p. gently curving around reniform which 

 it touches, forming a nearly regular slight arc. Basal half line indicated ; a faint, 

 wavy whitish subterminal line. Ordinary spots black ringed, claviform and orbicular 

 concolorously filled, reniform situated in the inception of a distinct white shade 

 which runs to costa before apex. Fringe dark with narrow white basal line. Hind 

 wing white, stained with fuscous on outer edge and on veins near costa. Expanse 

 24 to 27 mm. 



Described from three males from Prescott, Arizona, May 19 (E. 

 J. Oslar). 



Type. — No 7736, U. S. National Museum. 



The species has the type of markings of Oxycnemis adz'ena Grote, 

 but the lines are not excurved, while the apical white streak is promi- 

 nent. It much resembles the female of Aleptina inca Dyar in mark- 

 ings, but is much larger and lacks the frontal structure of that form. 

 There is no tuft of metallic scales on the thorax, which Grote gives 

 as one of the characters of Oxycnemis, but Smith has described several 

 species in this genus without it and there is present a posterior tuft 

 of scales, though it is not metallic. From Oticocnemis, the genus 

 differs in its slender form. Judging by a photograph before me, made 

 by Dr. John B. Smith, the species exists in the Neumoegen collection 

 with a manuscript name of the late Mr. A. R. Grote's as a species of 

 Oligia. 



Family NOTODONTID^. 

 Apatelodes pudefacta, new species. 



Light ashen gray, washed with brownish. Head and thorax gray, abdomen with 

 basal and terminal tufts dark brown. Fore wings gray, light at the base ; a diffuse 



