84 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ I^ENSTRUUS 



Loxotegopsis, new genus. rsd^y, " / 



Generally similar to Obtusipalpis Hampson (Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1895, 906). Wings longer and narrower; palpi not 

 blunt, the third joint pointed with hairs and downcurved; 

 venation similar, veins 4-5 of hind wing not approximated on 

 basal portion. 



Loxotegopsis polle, new species. 



Fore wing light brown, shaded with dark brown, usually 

 along the margins, but sometimes covering the whole wing, 

 except a small space about the stigmata ; inner line broad, 

 curved, dark brown, followed by a claviform streak on sub- 

 median fold ; orbicular a thick dash ; renif orm a ringlet ; outer 

 line thick, gently excurved above, nearly straight below ; ter- 

 men dark-shaded ; fringe silky shining. Hind wing silky, 

 slightly yellowish ; termen narrowly dark. Expanse, 12-15 mm. 



Type, male. No. 21167, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Brownsville, 

 Texas, May 9, 1904 (H. S. Barber). Many other specimens 

 from the same locality. 



SEVEN NEW CRAMBIDS FROM THE UNITED 

 STATES 



(Lepidoptera, Pyralidce) 



By HARRISON G. DYAR 

 Diatraea evanescens, new species. 



Fore wing light bufi, the veins lined with dark brown, but 

 not contrastingly ; also single lines in the interspaces, doubled 

 in the submedian space; cross-lines brown, faint, not dotted, 

 inner from near apex to inner margin near base, outer from 

 apex to inner margin near middle; a small blackish discal dot. 

 Hind wing white. Expanse, 16 mm. 



Type, male, No. 21127, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Audubon Park, 

 Louisiana, September 25, 1914 (U. C. Loftin), at light. 



Chilo opinionellus, new species. 



Grayish straw-color, the veins narrowly straw-color ; costa 

 straw-color; a gray shade through the cell and outward to 



