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Family NOCTUlDyE. 



Hydroecia stenocelis, new species. 



'J'horax ochraceous, mixed with purplish brown. The erect tuft may be present, 

 but it is depressed and partly destroyed in the specimen. Fore wing ochraceous, 

 this color appearing in the lower part of median space and before outer line, the rest 

 of wing suffused with purplish brown, the terminal and subterminal spaces entirely so. 

 Inner line double, nearly straight, obscure ; median line nearly straight across wing, 

 a little bent on median vein, dark brown, distinct ; outer line curved on its upper half, 

 straight below, dark brown, distinct, with a narrow faint inner duplication ; subterm- 

 inal line nearly lost, indicated by an irregular row of ochraceous dots in the purple 

 outer space ; veins in this space dark lined. Spots bright white, narrow, straight, 

 the orbicular and claviform forming a slender bar, narrowly cut by the median vein, 

 the reniform forming a long slightly oblique bar. Hind wings blackish with pale 

 ochraceous fringes. Expanse, 35 mm. 



One female, Baltimore, Md., through Mr. George Franck. 



Type. — Cat. no. 10246, U. S. Nat. Mus.- 



The spots are as in speciosissima G. & R., but the species is much 

 smaller, the outer line is not angled, the terminal space is solidly filled 

 with purple and the hind wings are dark. 



Trileuca delicia, new species. 



Size and shape of T. buxea Grote, with the same pattern of markings. Color 

 not shining pale ocherous, but creamy ocherous, powdery, without any yellow tint. 

 The lines are brown, fine, flexuous, but more distinct and contrasted than in buxea ; 

 terminal space and fringe brown suffused. Hind wings whitish, a little yellow tinted 

 only on the extreme margin towards the apical part. 



One male, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin (F. Rauterberg collection), 

 sent by the Milwaukee Public Museum. 



Type. — Cat. no 10253, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Family PYRALID^. 



Cacotherapia ponda, new species. 



Fuscous gray, the wings uniform, scarcely at all diluted with lighter shades. 

 Inner line of fore wings black, rather broad, distinct, edged basally by a lighter area, 

 outwardly waved at subcostal and median veins, most broadly at the lower flexure. 

 An upright black discal bar, followed by a lighter shade. Outer line like the inner, 

 nearly straight, bent a little in the middle, followed by a lighter shade. Hind wings 

 whitish gray with pale fringe. Expanse, 17-30 mm. 



Three males, Claremont, California (C. F. Baker). 

 Type. — Cat. no. 10 151, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Family TINEID^. 



Anaphora orizabae, new species. 



Light reddish to dark brown, the fore wings mottled-reticulate in dark brown ; 

 a quadrate patch at the end of the cell and an angled one below submedian vein, both 



