INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 45 



THREE NEW NORTH AMERICAN PHYCITIN^ 



(Lepidoptera, Pyralidce) 



By HARRISON G. DYAR 



Immyrla pasadamia/ new species. 



Head and thorax dark brown ; abdomen brown with whitish 

 segmental apical pale bands ; anal segment dull ocherous. Fore 

 wing dark brown, dark gray narrowly across cell ; three whitish 

 lines; the subbasal a little diffused and not strongly attaining 

 costa, followed by raised black and white scales; inner line 

 oblique above, erect below, a little wavy-denticulate; discal 

 spots black, conjoined; outer line irregular, wavy-denticulate, 

 inbent opposite cell ; a terminal row of black spots, preceded by 

 a gray dilution. Hind wing fuscous, lighter in anal area ; fringe 

 pale, interlined. Expanse, 21 mm. 



Type, male. No. 21056, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; St. Johns, Quebec, 

 June 18, 1911 (W. Chagnon) ; Dublin, New Hampshire (A. 

 Busck) ; Hazleton, Pennsylvania (?), bred from Betula, June 

 18, 1902 (Dr. W. G. Dietz). 



Salebria heinrichalis, new species. 



Head and thorax dark gray, tuft of maxillary palpi dark 

 ocher; thorax touched behind with dark blood-red. Fore wing 

 dark gray ; the inner line whitish, diffused, oblique ; basal space 

 filled with dark blood-red on its lower half, cut by an oblique 

 black line, the costal area nearly black ; discal dots small, joined 

 by a fine line, followed by whitish scales ; a blackish shade along 

 costa in median space, deepest just beyond the inner line; a 

 faint fine black line from inner margin at end of inner line to 

 outer line at discal fold ; outer line fine, white, denticulate, ex- 

 curved over cell and indented at vein 1, followed by blackish 

 costally; a terminal row of black dots. Hind wing gray, the 

 veins darker; fringe paler, interlined. Expanse, 17 mm. 



Type, male. No. 21057, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Falls Church, Vir- 

 ginia, reared from larvae on Quercus minor, April 36, 1915 (C. 

 Heinrich) (Hopk. U. S. 12,155h). 



The larva is light yellowish with a subdorsal row of large 

 black segmental patches; head pale, checkered with brown, 

 with two pairs of black spots in front and one over the eyes; 



