132 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



HEPIALID^ 



Phassus triangularis Edwards 



Head rounded, spherical, the mouth opening circular; 

 wrinkled-corrugated, black. Body dark red-brown, coarsely 

 annulate, with pale luteous, contrasting, elevated areas : Cer- 

 vical shield very large, red-brown, the lateral area of joint 2 

 elevated about the spiracle; joints 3 and 4 with two transverse 

 areas, the anterior one lunate, reaching the lateral area, the 

 posterior one running down to the subventral folds, which are 

 touched with the elevated color; on joints 5-12, anterior area 

 an elliptical dorsal saddle, posterior area a narrow line, broken 

 into little spots ; three lateral spots — one above the spiracle, 

 one before, and one behind — ^and one long subventral area of 

 the pale color. Crochets of the feet in a complete ellipse, 

 pointed on the inner side, the crochets of equal length. Feet 

 surrounded by a ring of pale color. 



Misantla, Vera Cruz, Mexico (W. Gugelmann), 



A NEW PYRALID FROM CALIFORNIA 



{Lepidoptera, Pyralidce) 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR 



Noctuelia minima, new species. 



Head and thorax above dark brown-gray ; a white line above 

 the eye; palpi with white scales intermixed. Abdomen gray, 

 with white scales toward the apices of the segments, becoming 

 scattered and predominant posteriorly. Fore wing with the 

 basal and terminal spaces dark olive gray, uniform; median 

 space broadly white with a central olive shading, which is 

 broken through the middle ; the white area is bordered by 

 black lines, the inner line bulging in the middle and excised on 

 vein 1, the outer line broadly waved, incurved on submedian 

 space. There is a tint of brown to the olive-gray areas that 

 disappears under a lens. Hind wing white, without dark bor- 

 der or any dark shade whatsoever. Expanse, 8 mm. 



Type, male. No. 21549, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Pasadena, Califor- 

 nia, April 30, 1909 (F. Grinnell, Jr.). 



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