INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 87 



Pyrausta bermudalis, new species. 



Straw-yellow or brownish, shaded with brown along costa, 

 outer margin and in the excurve of outer line ; lines brown, 

 rather broad, very distinct ; inner line nearly straight, curved 

 a little at costa, upright or a little concave behind median vein ; 

 outer line oblique above, excurved between veins 5 and 3, run- 

 ning in along 2 to below discal dot, then slightly flexuous to 

 margin; orbicular a dot near inner line; reniform elliptical, 

 solid. Hind wing with single discal dot and outer line, similar 

 to that on fore wing. Expanse, 22 mm. 



In the male the anal segment is obliquely cut below with a 

 lateral fringe of stiff straw-colored hairs which do not ex- 

 ceed the end of the segment. A short pencil of similarly 

 colored hairs at the sides of the penultimate segment. 



Type, male. No. 18241, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Bermuda, B. W. I., 

 May 7 (F. M. Jones), No. 38. Allotype, female. May 3 ; para- 

 types, a, male, May 7, b, male, May 7, c, female. May 3, d, 

 female. May 10, e, female. May 21. 



NYMPHULIN^ 



Piletocera bufalis Guenee. 



Seventeen specimens. Nos. 10 and WHM. Six males and 

 five females are small, taken May 15-17 and April 30; 6 

 females are larger, taken December 20, apparently indicating 

 two broods under different climatic conditons. 



CRAMBIN^ 



Crambus hastiferellus Walker. 

 Thirteen specimens. Nos. 14 and SB. 



Argyria gonogramma, new species. 



Palpi brown and yellow, white-tipped ; front white, a narrow 

 brown line on each side. Fore wing silvery white ; a slender 

 brown-black line across middle, roundedly excurved from costa 

 to median vein, slightly so from thence to margin, narrow or 

 broken below median vein, distinct on margin ; a short costo- 

 subapical dash and yellow mark ; a brown terminal line ; fringe 



