162 Journal New York Entomological Society, ["^'oi. xix. 



cation between two colors very sharp, almost perpendicular, irregularly den- 

 tate, inclined somewhat inwardly at inner margin, beyond the cell a prominent 

 round blue-black scale patch, with several minute black dots below it ; a suVj- 

 marginal black line, well outcurved from costa around scale patch, in lower 

 portion irregularly dentate, shaded slightly inwardly with whitish in costal half; 

 a liroken black terminal line preceded by more or less distinct white patches ; 

 fringes brown. Hind wings white, with two patches of raised brown and 

 blue-black scales near to and parallel with inner margin : a brown suffusion 

 more or less surrounds the patches and from a point between the two a black 

 wavy line is traceable to inner margin but does not extend to costa ; inner 

 margin scaled with brown near anal angle : black terminal line in central 

 portion of outer margin : fringes white shaded with brown, esjiecially towards 

 anal angle. 



Beneath whitish with the markings of upper side more or less distinctly 

 repeated ; median and terminal dark lines of secondaries extending to costa, 

 often interrupted. 



Expanse 1 3 mm. 



Habitat. — San Diego, Calif. 21 specimens. Type Coll. Barnes. 



Subfamily Epipasciiiin;e. 



Tallula fieldi, new species. 



Palpi and head brown; thorax white with blackish scaling; primaries 

 white ; a small basal patch of brown and black scales : a broad brown band 

 across middle portion of wing bordered outwardly by a fine white sinuate 

 line ; anterior margin of band rather dentate, defined by some black scaling ; 

 costal portion of band scaled with black : dark spot on costa beyond white 

 line ; a subterminal white line slightly outcurved opposite cell, bordered in- 

 wardly narrowly with black at costa, the l)order rapidly increasing in width, 

 so that the whole lower half of area between the two white lines is blue- 

 black scaled with brown, leaving only the costal half white ; a large apical 

 brown-black spot ; a broken terminal dark line ; fringes white. 



Secondaries dusky, darker towards apex. 



Beneath smoky-brown with white fringes : secondaries lighter tow-ards 

 inner margin ; primaries with white spot on costa near apex. 



Expanse male 18 mm., female 20 mm. 



Habitat. ~^m\ Diego, Calif. (G. H. Field). 6 c? c^. 3 ? ?. Types 

 Coll. Barnes. 



The species, which is closely related to atrifa.';cialis }-llst.. may he 

 distinguished by the broad extent of the median dark shading. In 

 atrifasciali.'^- the whole of the median area ])racticallv is white, whilst 

 in fieldi the white is confined to an irregularly shai)ed costal patch. 

 W'e take pleasure in naming this species after the collector Mr. (',. 

 H. Field. 



