Mar. 1893. J Smith : On New Species of Moths. 37 



A. comata Lee, Proc. Acad. Sc. Phil., 1858, p. 70. Length, 9.5 



mm., .38 inch. 



Habitat: : " One specimen from near Fort Yuma, California." 

 A. alacris Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, VII, p. 25, PI. I, 



Fig. 40. Length, 9 mm., .36 inch. 



Habitat : "One specimen given to Dr. Leconte by Dr. Sharp, of 

 Scotland, collected by Mr. Hardy in the .same region with the pre- 

 ceding." 



I am not aware of the existence of any specimens of these species 

 other than the types, and it is a little peculiar, if the above localities 

 are correct, that one or the other should not have turned up again in 

 all the collecting which has since been done in the same region. 



NOTES ON SCOTOGRAMMA AND ONCOCNEMIS 

 WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



By John B. Smith, Sc.D. 



Oncocnemis barnesii, sp. nov. 



Head and collar rich sienna brown. Thorax powdered with whitish and gray, 

 darker posteriorly. Primaries ashen gray at the base, brown beyond the t. p. line. 

 T. a. line black, single, broad, with an even and slight outcurve. T. p. line 

 black, single, broad, the edges not sharply defined, almost upright. In the dusky 

 portion of the wing beyond this line the veins are marked with black scales and 

 there are black streaks in the interspace. There is a black terminal line, followed 

 by a pale line at the base of the fringes. Ordinary spots entirely wanting. Secon- 

 daries whitish at base, shading to almost blackish at the fringes which themselves are 

 white. Beneath whitish, a little powdery. Expanse, 1.50 inches = 37 mm. 



Habitat : Yellowstone Park, Wyo. , in August ; Dr. Barnes. 



A single female example of this very strongly marked species is at 

 hand. There is nothing like it in the genus, and the two simple trans- 

 verse black lines on the gray ground will suffice to identify it. It has 

 something the appearance of atrifasciata without the dark median 

 filling. 



Oncocnemis melantho, sp. nov. 



Ground color is a mottling of white, gray, black and ocher yellow. Head ocher 

 yellow with some black scales intermingled. Collar yellow with a blackish central 

 band. Thorax mottled, blackish and white, with the tip of the basal tuft yellowish. 



