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Type, female, No. 21753, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Est. Cent. Agr. 

 de Cuba, Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba (P. Cardin). 



Similar to L. portoricensis Dyar, but without dark spot in 

 the white patch on costa. 



Named in honor of Sr. Patricio Cardin. 



Laetilia obscura, new species. 



Dark brown-gray; inner line whitish, straight, faint, pre- 

 ceded by darker scales ; costal region a little lighter ; discal dots 

 fused ; outer line only a trace. Hind wing dark fuscous, trans- 

 lucent at base. Expanse, 9 mm. 



Type, female, paratypes, three males and two females. No. 

 21754, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Est. Cent. Agr. de Cuba, Santiago 

 de las Vegas, Cuba (P. Cardin). 



Ephestia patriciella, new species. 



Fore wing dark blackish gray, shaded with brown-red, 

 especially through the center and between the veins, which thus 

 appear black-lined outwardly ; ordinary markings obsolete. 

 Hind wing translucent whitish, the costa narrowly, veins out- 

 wardly and a terminal line dark fuscous. Expanse, 12 mm. 



Type, female. No. 21773, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Baracoa, Cuba, 

 October, 1902 (W. Schaus) ; paratypes, female, Santiago. 

 Cuba, May, 1902 (W. Schaus), three males, Est. Cent. Agr. 

 de Cuba, Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba (P. Cardin). 



Named in honor of Sr. Patricio Cardin. 



BROMELICOLUS ANOPHELES— A CORRECTION 



(Dipicra. Cnlicidcr) 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR .and FREDERICK KNAB 



The so-called genera of Anopheles proposed by Theobald as 

 founded on scale-characters are obviously inadmissible as 

 genera, but they may be used in a subgeneric sense to assist in 

 the classification. Li going over them in this sense, it appears 

 that the identification of Kcrtessia holivicnsis Theobald made 

 by the junior author (Ins. Ins. Mens., i, 17, 1913) as being the 



