84 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Thirty specimens : Essex Co., Park, N. J., August 13 to Sept. 17, 

 Light Trap ; Chicago, III., Sept., J. H. Reading ; Aweme, Manitoba, July 

 5, Norman Criddle ; Plummer's Island, Md., August, A. Busck. 



Co^type jn U. S. Natl. Mus. "^Hoo^ 



Phalotiia fiomonana, sp. nov. 



Head and palpi dirty white, latter brownish outside ; thorax gray and " 

 brownish-black ; antenna fuscous, basal joint blackish-brown ; abdomen 

 and legs yellowish-white, latter heavily powdered with leaden-black. 



Fore wing shining brownish-gray. There is a broad central semi-fascia, 

 with parallel edges from inner third of dorsum to- upper edge of cell, out- 

 wardly oblique, and indented on upper edge outside, colour blackish- 

 brown. This is the only conspicuous mark on the wing. The costa from, 

 base to outer third is a darker shade and closely dotted with black ; 

 between outer fifth and apex are three or four darker dots. The dorsum 

 is dotted with small blackish spots. There is an obscure streak of reddish- 

 brown from beyond middle of cell to anal angle. There is a blackish 

 narrow terminal line, with a few dark dots before it in the middle of wing. 

 Cilia concolorous, divided by a darker middle line. 



Hind wing shining light gray, cilia same, with a darker line near base; 

 under side the same, lightly reticulated before apex. Under side fore 

 wing shining smoky-black. 



Expanse, 15 mm. 



One ^ specimen, Carmel, California, April, A. H. Vachell. 

 — Hysterosia homofiana, sp. nov. 



Head, palpi, thorax and antenna cream-white, outside of palpi, base 

 and upper side of antenna brown. Abdomen and legs light cinereous, 

 latter shaded with brown. 



Fore wing : Male costal fold brown ; balance of wing creamy-yellow, 

 very sparsely dotted with light brown, and strigulated in outer third with 

 shining white ; between these lines the ground colour is a shade darker 

 than on inner half of wing. A purplish-black dot in middle of wing at 

 end of cell. Cilia concolorous. In several specimens the light brown 

 specks are entirely wanting, the wing is immaculate except the brown costal 

 fold, the discal dot and the shining strigulation beyond cell. 



Hind wing very light yellowish white, lightly strigulated in some 

 specimens ; under side the same. Under side fore wing smoky-brown, 

 costal edge and cilia light ochreous. 



Expanse, 19-23 mm. 



Twenty-three specimens, Verdi, Nev., June, all collected by Arthur 

 H. Vachell. 



(To be continued.) 



