June,i904] DyAR : LePIDOPTERA FROM UNITED StATES. 1(>7 



finely dentate, much as in contatella Grote but more obscured, esjiecially costally. 

 Hind wings yellowish fuscous, darker at margin. Expanse, 26-28 inni. 



Six specimens, Plummers Island, Maryland, April 22, May 20, 23, 

 1903 (W. V. Warner, Aug. Busck, E. A. Schwarz), Rhinebeck, New 

 York, August 2, 1S88 (H. G. Dyar). Mucti resembles Meroptera 

 pravella Grote, but is larger and more distinctly marked with red. 



Type. — No. 7890, U. S. National Museum. 



v^ Zophodia arreomaculella, new species. 



Fore wings with 1 1 veins, 4 and 5 stalked, 8 and 9 stalked ; hind wings with 

 7 veins, 2 from the angle of the cell, 3 and 4 stalked. Tongue moderate, as long as 

 thorax ; labial palpi long, porrect : $ antennse simple, rather lengthily ciliate. 



Light gray ; black scales on a nearly white ground, with a slight admixture of 

 ochraceous, uniform. A yellow russet spot on inner margin at base ; another before 

 inner line, half crossing the wing, preceded by a shorter blackish patch. Inner line 

 white, erect, not distinct, crossed by fine black streaks on vein l, median vein and 

 subcostal. Discal dots separate, blackish ; outer line near the margin, diffused, not 

 contrasted, disturbed by indistinct blackish rays on the veins. A terminal row of 

 dots. Hind wings whitish, fuscous tinged outwardly. Expanse, 19 mm. 



One $ , Bremond, Texas, April 21, 1903 (E. D. Sanderson). 

 It resembles Dolicorhinia aureofasciella Rag. 

 Type. — No. 7891, U. S. National Museum. 



Pyla pallidellci, new species. 



Fore wings with 11 veins, 4 and 5 separate, lo separate; hind wings with 8 

 veins, 2 befure angle of cell, 3 approximate to the stalk of 4 and 5; cell normal. 

 Labial palpi long, porrect, more ascending than usual and somewhat appressed to 

 front ; tongue distinct ; $ antennae with basal bend well filled with scales. 



Whitish, somewhat silvery sfr^ning, washed with russet ochraceous on fore wings 

 completely over basal space, in spots on the median space and in a band beyond the 

 outer line. Inner line outwardly placed, straight, oblique, whitish with a few black 

 dots on the outer edge. Median space powdered with blackish, especially below end 

 of cell and subapically. Discal dots separate, black. Outer line near the margin, 

 straight, only a little incurved on submedian fold, white, narrow, black powdery edged 

 within. Outer half of terminal space white ; terminal line black. Hind wings pale 

 fuscous tinted. Expanse, 23 mm. 



One ^, Salt Lake, Utah, June 20 (H. S. Barber). I would 

 think this to be Lipographis fenestrella Pack., but it falls in Pyla by 

 Hulst's table. 



Type. — No. 7S92, U. S. National Museum. 



^OUia, new genus. 



l-ore wings with II veins, 4 and 5 stalked, 8 and 9 stalked, lo and II from the 

 cell ; hind wings with 7 veins, 2 before angle of cell, 3 and 4 stalked. Labial palpi 

 very long, porrect ; antennae in $ shortly pectinate and pubescent ; tongue invisible. 



