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ally losing itself towards costa in the reddish scaling around it. Extreme 

 tip of the wing is reddish brown. Hind wing silvery ochreous white. Ab- 

 domen dark ochreous fuscous. Legs whitish ochreous sparsely sprinkled 

 on external surfaces with fuscous. 



A lar expanse : 13-14 nun 



Habitat: Plummers Island, Maryland (in the Potomac river 

 above Washington City). 



Type: U. S. N. M., No. 10229. 



Phalonia schwarziana, new species. 



Labial palpi, light yellow, sprinkled with reddish scales on the underside 

 and towards the tip. Face, head and thorax light yellow; scales on patagia 

 tipped with dark fuscous. Fore wings rather broad and square, light greenish 

 yellow with a striking central fascia parallel with terminal edge; this fascia 

 is of a rich reddish brown color on dorsal edge lined with darker brown, but 

 gradually becomes narrower and lighter towards costal edge, where the light 

 ground color in merely darkened by a sprinkling of slate-colored scales; the 

 fascia is edged on both sides by strongly lustrous golden yellow scales. Cos- 

 tal edge at base narrowly darkened by fuscous scales and extreme tip of 

 wing is similarly darkened. Hind wings light fuscous with whitish cilia. 

 Abdomen ochreous. Four anterior legs blackish with white annulations on 

 the tarsi; posterior legs ochreous, slightly sprinkled with fuscous. 



Alar expanse: 11 mm. 

 ' Habitat: Plummers Island, Maryland (in the Potomac river 

 above Washington City). 



Type: U. S. N. M., No. 10230. 



The species approaches in pattern hospes Walsingham, but the 

 light olivaceous yellow ground color and the definitely limited 

 fascia at once separates it; it belongs besides to the more broad 

 and short-winged group of the genus. 



I name this pretty and striking Httle species after Mr. E- A. 

 Schwarz in pleasant memory of the many long summer evenings 

 and nights spent together with him on Plummers Island in the 

 pursuit of insects attracted to light, when the micros were too 

 numerous to allow sleep, and when Mr. Schwarz could always be 

 counted on to keep the enthusiasm up until the morning. 



Phalonia aureana, new species. 



Labial palpi, head and thorax fawn-colored. Basal third of the fore wings 

 fawn-colored except along the dark fuscous costal edge; this basal patch is 

 not very sharply limited by a large, dark, blackish fuscous cloud, which covers 

 the entire apical part of the wing except the terminal and apical edges, and 



