224 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. viii. 



loth. I have the 9 only. The National Museum type number is 



5^83- 



Ephestiodes nigrella, sp. nov. 



Palpi and front blackish fuscous ; thorax fuscous gray ; ai'jclonien lilackish fus- 

 cous, the last two segments becoming orange ochre ; fore wings blackish fuscous gray ; 

 basal line white, rather broad, straight, edged outwardly and rather heavily with 

 black ; discal spots superimposed, faint ; outer line very faint ; hind wings thin trans- 

 lucent fuscous, veins and margins darker. Expands 15 mm. 



Los Angeles, Cal. April. Taken by Dr. L. (). Howard. 

 Aurora nigromaculella, sp. nov. 



Palpi long, beak -like, light smoky gray ; front and thorax fuscous white ; abdo- 

 men fuscous white ; fore wings whitish on anterior half to below discal point, then the 

 color gradually narrowing to costa near beginning of outer line ; posterior half ochre 

 stained at base half way to basal line, then gray ; beyond basal line at middle of wing 

 a quite large quadrate black spot, behind this russet ochre to margin ; beyond this the 

 wing posteriorly ochre stained nenrly to outer line ; beyond outer line gray ; basal line 

 white, even, somewhat bent ; outer line white, irregularly wavy dentate, the denta- 

 tions being on veins ; the line is outwardly at costa and inwardly at cell edged with 

 black, then shaded with fuscous on both sides ; a marginal row of black spots ; hind 

 wings translucent shining white, shaded with yellow and fuscous ; beneath fore wings 

 fuscous, darker at apex ; hind wings as above. Expands 18 mm. 



Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona. Taken by E. A. Schwarz, June 

 8th. The National Museum type number is 5185. 



crambid.e:. 



Eufernaldia, gen. nov. 



Labial palpi long, somewhat drooping ; maxillary palpi prominent, scarcely tri- 

 angularly scaled ; tongue obsolete or nearly so ; front with a prominent pointed cone 

 tubercle; antennre of 9 filiform; forewings II veins, 3 v/anting, 7, 8 and 9 on a 

 stem, 10 and II from cell ; hind wings 8 veins, cell closed, though the cross vein is 

 not heavy, lower angle of cell strongly produced, vein 2 distant from angle, 3 and 4 

 at angle from a point, 4 and 5 stemmed one half their length, 6 and 7 from upper 

 angle, 8 stemmed with 7 one-half its length ; legs long and slender ; all spurs present. 



Peculiar, especially in wanting vein 3 of fore wings. 

 Eufernaldia argenteonervella, sp. nov. 



Labial palpi rather long, slender, hairs long below on third segment, fuscous 

 ochre ; front fuscous ochre ; summit pure white ; fore wings light ochre, the costa 

 narrowly, the veins of cell and also all other veins except g, 10, II and 12, broadly 

 lined with metallic silvery white ; the ochre portion along these silvery lines narrowly 

 and somewhat indistinctly edged with blackish scales, as is also the outer margin ; 

 fringes pure metallic white, twice faintly interlined with blackish scales ; hind wings 



