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16 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



Olethreutes provana sp. nov. 



Expanse 22 mm. ^ 



Head and thorax yellowish-white, posterior tuft black; palpi light brown; 

 shaded with black on outside ; autennse light fuscous ; abdomen yellowish brown, 

 legs yellowish-white, dusted with dark brown. 



Forewing: white, with an inner and middle dark fascia, the beginning of an 

 outer fascia and two dark spots on costa between latter and apex. 



The fasciae and spots are white, dotted with black and edged with black. The 

 inner fascia is very close to base and encloses a small basal patch of white, its 

 outer edge starts at inner sixth, and is indented in middle of wing, reaching dor- 

 sum at inner third ; the middle fascia consists of three superimposed spots, the 

 upper at middle of costa, its lower end pointed and touching the middle one 

 which is oval and horizontal, the dorsal spot is before anal angles and well de- 

 fined on inner side only. The outer semi-fascia is in the shape of a large rounded 

 spot on outer third of costa and reaching to upper third of wing, between it and 

 dorsum is a small shade of dark scales. The two inner fascia are somewhat over- 

 cast with yellowish, and the outer spots with olivaceous gray. Between the inner 

 and middle fasciae the ground color forms a distinctly outlined white fascia, with 

 a few vertical strigulations of gray. Before the termen is a line of black scales, 

 not reaching apex and below middle broken into three dots. Cilia grayish fus- 

 cous, with a darker line at base. 



Hindwing: pale brown, darker outwardly, cilia whitish and darker basal line. 

 Underside yellowish-white mottled at apex. 



Underside forewing: smoky brown, mottled with darker, costal spot repeated. 



One $ specimen. Wellington, B. C, April, Rev. George W. 

 Taylor. 



Olethrentes devotana sp. nov. 



Expanse 14 to 15 mm. 



Head and palpi fawn-brown; antenna gray, brown at base; thorax reddish- 

 purple; patagia lilaceous-gray and the same color at base of tuft; abdomen and 

 legs pale-ochreous, latter faintly dusted with brown. 



Forewing: blackish-bronzy -brown, overlaid with metallic-blue on inner half 

 below costal spots aiid on dorsum before anal angle. In the middle of dorsum is 

 a large rounded cream-white spot; the apical fifth of wing is cream-white, in- 

 dented by a brown shade from apex, opposite the inner end of which is a round 

 patch of metallic-blue; thus the white is nearly divided into two spots, the 

 smaller, triangular one on costa before apex and the larger one lying within the 

 lower half of termen. There is a dot of blue in the latter near its upper edge, 

 and an oblique streak of blue crosses the dark apical shade from the costal spot 

 before it. Over the ocellic area are shining white scales. Cilia brown at apex, 

 white below middle. 



Hindwing and underside both wings fuscous-brown. 



Three specimens. Hastings, Fla., June 8th, A. T. Brown ; Ch. 

 Harbor, Fla., March (Hulst collection), Dr. Dietz ; Florida, Prof. 

 Fern aid. 



Cotypes in Prof. Fernald's and my collection. 



