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CUCULLIINAE 



CoPicucuLLiA BASiPUNCTA sp. nov. (PI. XVI, Fig. 5). 



Palpi and head deep gray sprinkled with white; antennal region with two 

 dark transverse lines; tegulae white with dark line at base and a faint one 

 near tips which are also blackish ; patagia and thorax gray, former with a dark 

 line near posterior margin; metathoracic tuft large, black; abdomen pale 

 ochreous. Primaries blue-gray with the usual strigate appearance caused by 

 the veins being faintly outlined in black ; a distinct black dot at base of wing 

 below costa ; t. a. line arising from a small dark costal patch, indistinct in costal 

 region with prominent outward tooth below cell and a smaller tooth at inner 

 margin, heavily marked in black and preceded by some black shading ; orbicular 

 and reniform included in a dark costal shade, former round, with pale center, 

 ringed with white and black, reniform large with pale central lunule, similarly 

 outlined to orbicular ; t. p. line faint, pale, crenulate, bent outward below costa, 

 then subparallel to margin, marked inwardly in submedian fold and at inner 

 margin by black spots, the former preceded by a prominent white streak con- 

 necting it with the tooth of the t. a. line; faint pale streaks between the veins 

 terminally and a dark blotch above inner angle drawn rearward to a point 

 which almost touches t. p. line ; fringes alternately pale and dark. Secondaries 

 shiny white with veins slightly outlined in dark. Beneath primaries pale gray 

 with darker costa and fringes, latter checkered basally with white ; secondaries 

 as above. Expanse 35 mm. 



Habitat: Palm Spgs., Riverside Co., Calif. (Mch.) 1 S. Type, Coll. 

 Barnes. 



This very distinct species should be easily recognized by the 

 pure white secondaries, the basal black dot and the white quadrate 

 patch in the submedian fold. 



Oncocnemis primula sp. nov. (PI. XVII, Fig. 3). 



Head and thorax a delicate flesh color, a transverse dark band on tegulae, 

 patagia with two black spots and a larger black spot on mesothorax centro- 

 dorsally; squammation largely hairy. Primaries flesh-color, the median area 

 largely suffused with black on which background a small round orbicular with 

 central black dot and a very large, almost quadrate, reniform stand out sharply; 

 slight dark basal shading; t. a. line upright, black, irregular; t. p. line gem- 

 inate, costal portion lost in black shading, lower portion inwardly oblique and 

 dentate ; slight black subterminal spotting consisting of a costal blotch, a slight 

 patch around vein 3 and another at anal angle ; fringes concolorous, with 

 incomplete row of dark basal dots. Secondaries in both sexes white with a 

 geminate black dot at anal angle which in the 9 shows traces of being 

 continued toward costa as a dark s. t. line. Beneath white with maculation of 

 upper side partially visible. Expanse 31 mm. 



Habitat: Palm Spgs., Riverside Co., Calif. (Mch.) 1 ^,1 $. Types. 

 Coll. Barnes. 



