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margin; a rather large rounded black discal dot; a row of 

 minute terminal black dots between the veins ; fringe inter- 

 lined. Hind wing gray, a little lighter at extreme base. Ex- 

 panse, 16 mm. 



Type, male. No. 21180, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Yuma, Arizona, 

 July 24, 1916, bred from larvse in wheat stems (T. D. Ur- 

 bahns). 



Chile loftini, new species. 



Apex of fore wing acute ; whitish straw-color, the veins light, 

 edged on each side by a line of fine brown scales, which dif- 

 fuse in the interspaces ; a small black discal dot ; a row of 

 terminal black dots in the interspaces, connected by a slender 

 line ; fringe interlined with brown. Hind wing white with a 

 slender brown line on apical half. Expanse, 23 mm. 



Type, female. No. 21128, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Glenndale, Ari- 

 zona, September 1, 1914 (U. C. Loftin), bred from Mexican 

 cane. 



The male is much smaller, expanse, 15 mm. Other speci- 

 mens were bred from Louisiana cane, in the same locality. 



The species is allied to C. multipunctellus Kearfott, but is 

 not as white and is more distinctly and clearly marked. It 

 looks very much like Platytes densellus Zeller, but the front is 

 strongly tuberculate, which is not the case in that species. 



Platytes dinephelalis, new species. 



Fore wing white, the costa and inner margin broadly shaded 

 with creamy brown, shading to dark brown just before the 

 white area, appearing as two brown clouded bands, one 

 through the cell, curving up to apex, the other along sub- 

 median fold ; scattered brown scales over the wings ; veins 

 narrowly and not prominently lined in brown ; a minute black 

 discal point. 



Hind wing brownish gray, whitish at base. Expanse, 

 29 mm. 



Type, male, No. 21139, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Babaquivera 

 Mountains, Pima County, Arizona (through Dr. William 

 Barnes). 



