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Type, female, No. 21182, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Devil's River, 

 Texas, May 6, 1907 (Bishop & Pratt). Also in southern 

 Arizona. 



Elophila truckeealis, new species. 



Fore wing with the base brown; subbasal line white, dif- 

 fused; a broad brown band with slight luteous dilution cen- 

 trally; median line white, angled subcostally in the female, 

 straighter in the male, though flexuous, followed by black; a 

 black discal dot with a little orange beyond it ; middle field 

 brown above and along median vein, irrorate with black below ; 

 a short white outer line from vein 2 to inner margin, edged 

 with black within ; subapical oblique white band slender, 

 curved; subterminal half -line white; terminal line orange. 

 Hind wing gray on basal half with central pale dilution and 

 trace of orange, ending in a median double angled line ; a black 

 discal dash in irrorations, which cross two-thirds of the wing; 

 marginal dots separated by leaden, with preceding line only at 

 apex and tornus. Expanse, 19 mm. 



Type, female. No. 21183, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Reno, Nevada, 

 July 14, 1915 (H. G. Dyar). Also from Klamath Lake and 

 Salem, Oregon. 



Elophila opulentalis Lederer. 



Cataclysta opulentalis Lederer, Wien. ent. Mon., vii, 453, 486, 



pi. 18, fig. 7, 1863. 

 Cataclysta confusalis Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., xxxiv, 1334, 1865. 



Elophila moniligeralis Lederer. 



Cataclysta moniligeralis Lederer, Wien. ent. Mon., vii, 454, 487, 



pi. 18, fig. 10, 1863. 

 Elophila slossonalis D'yar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 93, 1906. 



Mr. Schaus has labeled a specimen : "moniligeralis Led. 

 Comp. B. M." Certainly Lederer's figure does not suggest this 

 identification. However, the probability is that the figure is a 

 product of the artist's imagination, at least the part beyond the 

 middle of the fore wing, for Lederer says : "die aussere [Linie] 

 an meinem etwas verwischten Exemplare nicht ganz bestimmt 

 zu erkennen." Doubtless the whole half of the wing was il- 



