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obsolete, being indicated on extreme costal edge by a faint shade. Cilia opposite 

 the yellow are concolorous, opposite the purplish the dark color overruns the 

 cilia at base, but extreme edge is yellow. 



Hind wings: very light pinkish straw color; underside pale ochreous, streaked 

 with darker ochreous below costa and in middle of wing. 



Underside forewing: ochreous, shaded with pinkish, the central and terminal 

 fasciae are lightly repeated. 



Seventeen specimens: Hastings, Fla., March, April, Sept., Oct., 

 and Nov., A. J. Brown ; Burnet Co., Texas, F. G. Schaupp. 



Tlie varieties with and without the central fascia occur in both the 

 spring and fall and in both Florida and Texas. 



Sparganothis yiiinana sp. nov. 



Expanse, % , 14 mm. ; J , 16 mm. 



Head, palpi, thorax, abdomen and forewing light ochreous in the male, and 

 dark ochreous in the female. In the latter there are a few dark scales between 

 lower vein of cell near its outer end and fold, and an almost invisible narrow 

 darker shade from outer third of dorsum to middle of costa. Cilia concolorous. 



Hindwingof male same color as forewing; of female, light ochreous, darker 

 around the edges ; underside both wings light ochreous in male, darker in female. 



One S and one 9 : Yuma Co., Ariz,, desert ; received through 



J. B. Smith. 



Sparganothis bistriala sp. nov. 



Expanse 22-24 mm. 



Head and palpi yellow, darker outwardly ; thorax yellow, patagia dark ochre- 

 ous at base and apex ; antenna pale yellow ; abdomen and legs dirty yellow, latter 

 banded and dusted with purplish-red. 



Forewing: bright canary-yellow, strigulated with vertical lines of shining 

 opalescent scales, in a general way following the curve of the termeu ; these 

 bright lines cross wing from base to termen, and each forms a shining spot on 

 costa. There is a costal line of bright red from base to outer sixth, a similar band 

 through mid^lle of cell from base to end of cell, a slight shade of the same color 

 on dorsum at outer end of fold. Cilia yellow. 



Hind wing: above and below pink or dark flesh color, cilia whitish. 



Underside forewing: ochreous, shaded with pink through middle of wing, and 

 red on and below costa. 



Three specimens : Shovel Mountain, Burnett Co., Texas, F. G. 

 Shaupp; Florida. 



Sparganothis tristriata sp. nov. 



Expanse 17-23 mm. 



Head and palpi: dark ochreous; antenna purplish-fuscous; thorax dark och- 

 reous, patagia wide-red ; abdomen light fuscous, anal tuft light brown ; legs whit- 

 ish, powdered with reddish-brown. 



Forewing: light canary-yellow, with three wine-red streaks from base to ter- 

 men. The upper edges, the costa, the middle is above the middle of the wing, 

 and the lower one on dorsum between it and fold, the last is shaded with yellow 



TBANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXXIII. FEBRUARY, 1907. 



