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There seems also to be no reason for changing the original name as 

 given by Havvorth and the synonymy will therefore stand : 

 Hemeroplanis Hbn. 



Scopelopus Steph. 



Pleonectyptera Grt. 

 scopulaepes Haw. 



pyralis Hbn. 



inops Steph. 



irrecta Wlk. 



ftoccalis Zell. 



Mycterophora rubricans sp. nov. (PI. XVIII, Figs. 1, 2). 



Palpi long, porrect, blade-like; $ antennae strongly bipectinate, 2 

 simple; thorax and both wings pale ochreous, heavily sprinkled and shaded 

 with fuscous and with a distinct pinkish suffusion over the whole wings ; macu- 

 lation variably distinct due to the greater or less amount of fuscous shading; 

 t. a. line rather closer to base than usual, dark, irregular, with an inward angle 

 on median vein ; a broad dusky median shade rounded outwardly below 

 costa, preceded in the cell by a small dark dot representing the orbicular and 

 followed by a small dark lunule with pale center in the place of the reniform; 

 t. p. line dark, single, strongly bent outward below costa to beyond cell, then 

 inwardly oblique and wavy, in general parallel to outer margin ; s. t. line faintly 

 represented by a diffuse ochreous shade-line preceded and followed by heavier 

 fuscous shading; a more or less broken, dark, crenulate terminal line; fringes 

 concolorous, slightly checkered with pinkish opposite veins and cut by a median 

 smoky line. Secondaries similar to primaries in maculation without the basal 

 line; a large dark discal lunule resting on the median shade. Beneath pale 

 smoky with pinkish fringes and faint traces of the maculation of the upper 

 side. Expanse $ 26 mm., 2 24 mm. 



Habitat: Monachee Meadows, Tulare Co., Calif., 5 5,8 2. Types, 

 Coll. Barnes. 



The species is allied to monticola Hist, and may possibly prove to 

 be identical with it; this latter species possesses, however, none of 

 the ruddy shading which is characteristic of our species and from our 

 notes on Hulst's type would seem to dififer somewhat in minor details 

 of maculation. 



Genus Parahvpenodes gen. nov. (Type P. qnaJralis sp. nov.). 



Proboscis greatly reduced ; labial palpi long, upturned, second joint blade- 

 like, far exceeding front, heavily and smoothly scaled, third joint almost as 

 long as the second, thread-like, acuminate; $ antennae heavily ciliate; front 

 rough-scaled ; legs normal ; primaries with 10 veins, 3, 4 and 5 separate from 



