334 GEORGE D. HUL8T. 



D. minuta n. sp. — Expands 23-25 mm. Palpi and front fuscons ochreous 

 to gray ; summit generally gray, sometimes with ocher tint ; thorax gray, or 

 grayish fuscous. Abdomen fuscous, with an ocher tinge. Wings dirty fuscous 

 gray, scales roughened, giving a sordid granular appearance, the fuscous shading 

 more pronounced on the outer space, and the whole of the wings with irregu- 

 larly scattered black scales; cross-lines three, indistinct or almost obsolete, to 

 slightly darker fuscous across the wing, showing especially and distinctly in dai'k 

 fuscous or black patches along costa ; the first two are even, slightly rounded, 

 the outer angulated outwai'dly at upper end of cell; the two outer are faintly 

 continued on hind wings; discal spots annulai'. faint, diflfuse; beneath clearer 

 gray, with fuscous, or fuscous ocher blotches, becoming at times almost or quite 

 solid, basally and on outer space ; discal spots annular, more distinct than above, 

 large. 



Texas, Arizona. My specimens are all females. 



I>. florida n. sp. — Expands 26 mm. Palpi rather long, prominent, fuscous 

 gray, with blackish intermixed; front strongly cone tufted, of the same color; 

 thorax of same color, lighter gray posteriorly. Abdomen fuscous ocher; fore 

 wings fuscous, with an ocher tinge to outer line, more blackish along costa ; first 

 two lines faint, the basal rounded, the second nearly straight, including the not 

 prominent discal spot; outer line black, heavy, straight from costa near apex to 

 the same distance within inner angle, edged outwardly with dull reddish brown ; 

 outer field fuscous, slightly ocher, margins black, wings subfalcate ; hind wings 

 fuscous gray, darker beyond line ; the outer line present, blackish, quite distinct, 

 bent anteriorly; marginal line blackish; beneath both wings fuscous ocher as 

 fore wings above, the hiud wings more brokenly ; lines very faintly showing, 

 outer space darker fuscous, discal points indistinct. 



Florida. 



D. deceptata n. sp. — Expands 31 mm. Palpi fuscous gray ; front dark 

 fuscous : thorax and abdomen fuscous gray, the latter somewhat ocher tinted ; 

 fore wings light gray, thickly overlaid with blackish scales, giving a broken dark 

 gray color : basal space blackish at middle: basal line scarcely evident; middle 

 line showing in broken darker patches ; outer line in somewhat lengthened in- 

 tervenular spots iu a line parallel with margin, each spot preceded with a more 

 or less distinct whitish spot; margin of intervenular black spots preceded by 

 whitish; discal spots black, small; hind wings even fuscous, without cross-lines; 

 discal spots obsolete; marginal line indistinct, dark fuscous; beneath dirty fus- 

 cous, slightly darker outwardly ; discal spots of fore wings very faint. 



New York, one female only. 



D. pallidula n. sp. — ^Expands 25 mm. Light whitish ocher; fore wiugs 

 crossed by three ocher lines, the first close to base, broad, rounded, augulate ; the 

 second just within middle of wing, broad, rounded, edges somewhat uneven ; the 

 outer with a fuscous tinge, narrow, running from costa to vein 6, following vein 

 6 outwardly at a sharp angle for a short distance, then turning sharply from it 

 and continuing to inner margin parallel with outer edge, the line somewhat 

 tremulous in its course; between veins 3 and 4 is a large broken black spot, di- 

 vided by the outer line; hind wings, the three lines continued across the wiugs: 

 discal spots dark, diffuse; beneath much as above, more fuscous, lines more iu- 



