INSKCUTOR inscitite; menstruus 77 



legible in the single male type ; but the artist had to draw 

 something, and hence the strange pale border with inward 

 curve below. Lederer's description makes no mention of this. 



Elcphila cancellalis, new species. 



Fore wing white, but the markings predominant ; base filled 

 with dark brown ; a white subbasal line, angled on vein 1 ; a 

 broad dark brown band, followed by a white mesial line and a 

 narrow brown line, angled in cell and on vein 1 ; middle area 

 white, shaded with brown on costa ; traces of powdery orbicu- 

 lar and renif orm ; outer line brown, slender, oblique, in a white 

 space to vein 4, retracted and roundedly incurved to vein 1, 

 then oblique to the inner margin ; terminal space dark-filled ; a 

 white subterminal line to vein 2 ; an orange terminal line, edged 

 by brown on both sides. Hind wing with a broad dark brown 

 band, cut by a white line beyond base, not reaching costa ; a 

 slender median brown line, coarsely angled ; upper half of 

 median space with a dark brown patch of solidified powdering, 

 with irregular vacuolated center; a terminal band of dark, 

 containing round black spots with metallic edging, preceded 

 by yellowish and a fine black crenulate line. Expanse, Ifi mm. 



Type, female. No. 31184, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Devil's River, 

 Texas, May 6, 1907 (Bishopp & Pratt). 



Elophila irroratalis, new species. 



Fore wing with an irregular black line near base, followed by 

 a broad dilution, then brown-shaded ; middle line black, angled 

 in the cell, oblique below ; median space pale gray, with longi- 

 tudinal bands of black irrorations in cell and submedian space ; 

 outer line black, oblique, then faint and curved, running in 

 below vein 1, almost parallel to inner margin ; a black triangular 

 subapical shade, followed by a white one ; terminal band orange, 

 black-lined on both sides. Hind wing whitish near base, with 

 black irrorations thence to marginal marking; a central black 

 line ; marginal dots black, resting in a leaden border and pre- 

 ceded by an orange space. Expanse, 14 mm. 



Type, female. No. 21185, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Archer, Florida, 

 March 9, 1882 (A. Koebele. through C. V. Riley). 



