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and subparallel to outer margin, bent in strongly below cell, with slight traces 

 of ochreous shading outwardly most marked at costa; orbicular and reniform 

 obscure dark spots, with faint ochreous dash between them ; secondaries and 

 fringes deep smoky. Beneath primaries much as above with the ochreous 

 costal spot distinct ; secondaries paler, with traces of a bent postmedial line 

 tinged outwardly with ochreous and a dark discal spot. Expanse 13 mm. 



Habitat: New Brighton, Pa. (July 9-26) (F. Merrick). 5 S- Types, 

 Coll. Barnes. 



The species is very closely related to xanthocrypta Dyar from S. 

 Calif, and Mexico but is smaller and much deeper in the color of both 

 wings. 



Pyrausta emigralis sp. nov. (PI. XXIV, Fig. 7). 



Pectus and base of palpi whitish ochreous; palpi outwardly smoky, upper 

 surface ochreous; head ochreous; thorax and wings deep black-brown with 

 very obscure markings, the most prominent features being an ochreous dash 

 between two dark shades representing the ordinary spots and a curved row 

 of ochreous dots delineating the t. p. line outwardly and strongly bent inward 

 in submedian fold ; the t. a. and t, p. lines are scarcely visible as slightly darker 

 shade-lines. Secondaries deep unicolorous brown. Beneath deep black on 

 both wings with an ochreous dash on costa near apex. Expanse 19-20 mm. 



Habitat: Palmerlee, Ariz. 5 $,2 5. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



Also a close ally of xanthocrypta but the dotted nature of the 

 ochreous t. p. shading and the almost unicolorous dark under side 

 should separate it easily. These three species, xanthocrypta Dyar, 

 merrickalis B. & McD. and emigralis B. & McD. form a group that 

 we place for the present in the genus Pyrausta, following Dyar, but 

 which seems to have no particular resemblance to any of the other 

 N. American species included in this genus. 



We have a species very similar in general appearance to the 

 preceding group but differing structurally in having a rudimentary 

 proboscis which is entirely hidden between the palpi ; for this reason 

 we incline to place it in Dyar's new Schoenobiid genus Loxotegopsis 

 (Ins. Ins. Menst. V, 84) with which it agrees well structurally; it 

 is apparently widely spread throughout the west, but we can find no 

 name applicable, and describe it as follows : 



Loxotegopsis curialis sp. nov. (PI. XXIV, Fig. 8). 



Palpi brown laterally, ochreous above ; head ochreous ; thorax and pri- 

 maries deep brown with obscure maculation; t. a. and t. p. lines darker, obscure, 

 the former bent outwards, the latter irregular and parallel to outer margin 



