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Also a female, Florida (Schaus collection) ; a male and three 

 females, Lakeland, Florida, March, 1913 (C. N. Ainslie) ; and 

 a male and female, smaller and not exactly identical, Florida 

 (Schaus collection). 

 Elophila plevie, new species. 



Fore wing white ; a brown inbent line close to base ; a broad 

 brown shade preceding the inner line, which is narrow, black- 

 ish, slightly oblique, and a little angled centrally ; outer line 

 blackish, narrow, oblique, from costa to vein 3, then faint, but 

 incurved to submedian fold, forming an obsolete angle, run- 

 ning out again in a distinct angle and inwardly oblique to inner 

 margin ; a broad brown shade, broadest on costa, angled on 

 submedian fold ; a cuneiform white space, tapered below ; ter- 

 minal line red, narrowly edged with dark on both sides. Hind 

 wing whitish ; a narrow mesial brown-gray line ; a diffused 

 gray loop on upper half of wing outwardly, followed by a 

 trace of orange ; terminal dots with metallic scales in a leaden 

 margin, a trace of inner border-line apically; fringe whitish. 

 Expanse, 13 mm. 



Type, female. No. 31314, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Weld, Maine, 

 July 27, 1910, flying in cat-tail reeds on the lake (H. G. Dyar). 



Elophila imitabilis, new species. 



Fore wing dark brown ; a narrow oblique white patch on 

 inner margin at basal fourth ; a larger, but still narrow and 

 oblique patch at middle, rising to median vein ; a curved white 

 subterminal line from apex to vein 2, followed by a red line. 

 Hind wing white, a double brown band across middle, angled 

 on submedian fold, without red ; a patch of gray irroration 

 from costa to vein 2 ; a marginal row of five black spots with 

 metallic scales ; some orange beyond them, none before. Ex- 

 panse, 10 mm. 



Type, male. No. 21313, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Lakeland, Florida, 

 March, 1913 (C. N. Ainslie). Also two males, Florida 

 (Schaus collection) and four females, respectively, Florida 

 (Schaus collection) ; Lakeland, Florida, March, 1913 (C. N. 

 Ainslie) ; Hastings, Florida, June (W. D. Kearfott) ; Fort 

 Drum, Florida (U. S. Dept. Agriculture). 



