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and broadening at inner margin ; a faint terminal dark line ; fringes checkered 

 black ?.nd white at base, paler outwardly with dark central line. Secondaries 

 light brownish with small dark discal dot, traces of a curved postmedian line 

 and a rather heavy subtenninal shade line; fringes pale with dark basal and 

 median lines. Beneath pale brownish, primaries with orbicular and reniform 

 marked in black and the t. p. line of upper side fairly distinctly outlined; 

 secondaries paler and less maculate than above. Expanse 22 mm. 



Habitat: Olancha, Inyo Co., Calif. (Apr. June) 2 9. Types, Coll. 

 Barnes. 



Allied to allectalis Grt. and lepidalis Hist, but with the bulge of 

 the t. p. line closer to outer margin than in either of these two species. 



Lo.XOSTEGE UNILINEALIS sp. nOV. (PI. XXIV, Fig. I). 



Primaries pale creamy white slightly sprinkled with smoky and with a 

 single dark line starting from costa near apex, gently rounded and then rigidly 

 oblique to just beyond the middle of inner margin ; a faint dark terminal line ; 

 fringes pale with faint smoky median line. Secondaries whitish, slightly smoky 

 outwardly with tenninal line and fringes as on primaries. Beneath primaries 

 pale smoky with the maculation of upper side partially developed; secondaries 

 white. Expanse 14 mm. 



Habitat: Redington, Ariz. 1 $■ Type, Coll. Barnes. 



This small species is placed in the genus Loxostege on account 

 of the conically protuberant front; if the frontal structure did not 

 disagree we should be inclined to place it in Edia Dyar (Titanio) along 

 with the bclialis group although even here it would be aberrant. The 

 proboscis is reduced and concealed by the palpi which are rather shorter 

 than usual in the genus. 



Loxostege parvipicta sp. nov. (PI. XXIII, Fig. 10). 



Palpi and front whitish; thorax pale yellow with a central pinkish-purple 

 stripe ; primaries pale yellow crossed by two curved parallel bands of pinkish- 

 purple; costa to first line of a similar color; a large round pinkish-purple 

 discal dot; secondaries white in 5, in 9 shaded with pinkish terminally. 

 Beneath primaries largely pinkish with pale yellow terminal area, secondaries 

 as above. Expanse 13 mm. 



Habitat: Olancha, Inyo Co., Calif. 3 3,2 9. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



Belongs in the vibicalis group but has a rather more prominent 

 frontal protuberance than usual. 



Titanic subargentalis sp. nov. 



Vestiture of palpi and head very shaggy, composed of mixed black and 

 white hairs. Primaries blackish with indistinct maculation very similar to that 



