138 INSECUTOR INSClTliE MENSTRUUS 



Family PYRALID^ 

 Subfamily PYRAUSTIN^ 



Pionea cacidus, new species. 



Fore wing with ground color pale straw-color, heavily over- 

 laid with brown irrorations, the costa and terminal spaces sol- 

 idly dark ; lines very faint, dark, pale-edged, dentate, the outer 

 broadly excurved over cell ; a terminal dark line, followed by 

 yellowish dots at the ends of the veins; fringe dark gray, uni- 

 form. Hind wing pale fuscous ; fringe as on fore wing, the 

 terminal yellow dots forming a line. Expanse, 20 mm. 



Type, male, No. 21745, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Mexico City, 

 Mexico, August, 1917 (R. Miiller). 



Pyrausta euchromistes, new species. 



Fore wing yellow, the terminal space solidly pink with a 

 straight inner edge; a pink shade on costal half of wing to 

 two-thirds, diffused below. Hind wing creamy whitish, with 

 a pale fuscous line on outer area, straight from anal angle to 

 vein 7 before apex ; orbicular and reniform lost in the general 

 suflfusion in the female, distinct in the male, in which the suf- 

 fusion is less marked. Expanse, 20 mm. 



Type, female, allotype, male, No. 21746, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 Mexico City, Mexico, September and October, 1914 (R. 

 Miiller). 



Subfamily PHYCITIN^ 



Eucardinia, new genus. 



Fore wing with veins 2 and 3 separate, 4 and 5 approximated 

 at origin but not stalked, 6 from below the apex of the cell, 

 7-9 stalked, 9 absent, 10 and 11 from the cell. Hind wing 

 with the cell about one-third the length of wing, 2 from before 

 the end, 3 continuing the end of the cell, 4-5 long-stalked, 

 6 from apex of cell, 7 and 8 anastomosing. Labial palpi 

 strongly upturned, much exceeding the vertex, fringed with 

 scales in front, more strongly so in the male ; front circularly 

 flat and nearly deprived of scales. Antennse of the male with 

 a rounded prominence on the upper side bearing black teeth 



