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Nearest in winy- form and ]>attera to Semioscopis megami- 

 crella Dyar, but smaller, much darker and suffused in its mark- 

 ing and without the well marked terminal row of black dots. 



Hypople.sia dietziella new species 



Tongiie and maxillary palpi obsolete. Labial palpi rather 

 long curved ascending; second joint with well developed brush 

 on the underside and with several long black bristles along the 

 upper edge; terminal joint shorter than second, bluntly pointed; 

 blackish fuscous with extreme tip of the third joint yellowish. 

 Antennae nearly as long as the forewings, stout, with short 

 whorls of raised scales, less so in the females; basal joint with 

 pecten yellowish fuscous, lighter toward the tip. Face and head 

 rough with long, erect dark fuscous hair scales. Thorax dark 

 fuscous. Patagina tipped with yellow. Forewings dark fuscous 

 mottled with black and yellow in indistinct and transverse 

 striation; the black scales are slightly raised and most promi- 

 nent ; along the costal edge is a series of small black dots and 

 at the end of the cell is a larger ill-defined black spot; around 

 the entire edge from the middle of costa to tornus is a series of 

 small yellowish dashes also present in the otherwise dark fus- 

 cous cilia. Hindwings shining dark fuscous. Abdomen dark 

 fuscous. Legs black with yellowish annulations. Hindlegs 

 rather long with the tibiae hairy. 



Alar expanse : 16-20 mm. 



Hahifaf — San Diego, California, June, July. W. S. Wright, 

 coll. 



U. S. N. M. Type No. 15,614. 



I take pleasure in associating the name of my friend and col- 

 leagaie. Dr. Wm. Dietz, with this interesting species, the second 

 one known in the genus originally characterized by him under 

 the preoccupied name, Paraplesia. (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 

 XXXI, p. 12, m)o)==Hypoplesia (Busck, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 

 XXX, p. 735, 1906.) 



The original description is rather scanty and partly incor- 

 rect; the antennas are not bipectenate, but are thickened with 

 whorls of raised scales. Their length and the absence of tongue 



