98 INSECUTOR INSCITI/E MENSTRUUS 



the veins black. The hind wings are orange with the median band nar- 

 rower than above and not extending to the inner margin. The outer 

 marginal band is brown and the apex wants the yellow patch. The legs 

 structurally are like C. hahilis, all being spinulated. The single type male 

 was taken in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF SIX NEW PYRALIDyE FROM 

 BRITISH GUIANA 



By HARRISON G. DYAR 



PYRAUSTIN/E 

 Dichocrocis penniger, new species. 



Nearly solidly black-brown. Fore wing with subbasal and inner lines 

 slender, white, slightly wavy ; a wedge-shaped costal white spot between 

 the obsolete stigmata ; outer line slender, white, obscured below, running 

 out close to margin over discal venules, retracted at vein 2 ; fringe white 

 below apex and at tornus. Hind wing with two faint pale lines, the 

 outer like the outer of fore wing, strongly retracted at vein 2 ; outer mar- 

 gin excavate between veins 4 and 6, the fringe white there and from 

 tornus to vein 3, with black basal interline. Anal tuft white in the male. 

 Expanse, 17-19 mm. 



Cotypes, c? and 9 , No. 1 6048, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Botanic Gardens, 

 Georgetown, British Guiana, bred from larvae on Gardenia (H. W. B. 

 Moore). 



Nomophila absolutalis, new species. 



Fore wing narrow, apex rounded ; dark gray without markings ; discal 

 dots represented by blackish clouds, the orbicular small, the reniform 

 large ; at apex of costa three yellowish dashes ; fringe pale with a broken 

 dark interline. Hind v^ng translucent whitish, veins and margin narrowly 

 gray, the apex a little more extensively so. Expanse, 1 7 mm. 



Type, $ , No. 1 6049, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; La Bonne Intention Planta- 

 tion, British Guiana, bred from larvae on Marsilia polycarpa, an aquatic 

 weed (H. W. B. Moore). 



CHRYSAUGIN/E 

 Idnea felicella, new species. 



Bright red-brown ; basal space of fore wing chestnut brown with ver- 



