June, 1907] DyAR : NeW AMERICAN MOTHS. 105 



The species does not belong to the genus Pyrausta, and is not 

 even a Pyralid. It is referable to the Noctuidse, and falls in Sir 

 George Hampson's subfamily Acronyctinte (Cat. Lep. Phal., iv, 3, 

 1903). The front of the head is protuberant and bears a vertical and 

 a transverse ridge which form a cross, bare of scales in all the speci- 

 mens ; the vestiture is of mixed hairs and scales ; the fore tibiae are 

 very short, hardly longer than wide, expanded at the tip and armed 

 with a long inner and a shorter outer claw. I am unable to suggest 

 the proper genus. This may be left for the next volume of the Cat. 

 Lep. Phalaenae. 



NEW AMERICAN MOTHS. 



By Harrison G. Dyar, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Family ARCTIID^. 



Pbragmatobia nundar, new species. 



Head and thorax clothed with woolly hair, black ; abdomen blackish with a 

 partly obsolete crimson lateral band. Fore wing black, a broad conspicuous stripe 

 along the submedian fold from base, not quite touching outer margin ; a slender white 

 line from outer third of costa, running obliquely outward, curved abruptly inward at 

 its termination above the submedian stripe ; fringe intermixed with whitish. Hind 

 wings crimson with a narrow outer black border, twice indented by the crimson area. 

 Below the wings are paler, the markings repeated, the dark margin of the hind wings 

 broadened and diffused, with a faint discal spot and some cloudings beyond. Ex- 

 panse, 30 mm. 



One male, without antennae, Mexico City, Mexico (R. Miiller, 

 no. 790). 



Type.—Q^\.. No. 10330, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Family GEOMETRID^. 



Glaucina puellaria, new species. 



Dark gray, the lines black, crenulate ; discal mark present ; both lines have 

 narrow whitish edging and the subterminal line is shaded white. Hind wings gray, 

 whitish on disk, the inner margin marked like the fore wings with the inception of 

 the two lines. Expanse, 25 to 32 mm. 



Five females in the U. S. National Museum, one female in the col- 

 lection of Prof. F. H. Snow. Catalina Springs, Arizona (E. A. 



