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bent back at right angles as far as the cell and then slightly outwardly oblique 

 to inner margin just before anal angle ; fringes smoky. Secondaries pale ruddy, 

 deeper in 9 than $, shaded with smoky outwardly with traces of a dotted 

 s. t. line. Beneath pale ruddy with dusky fringes. Expanse 15-16 mm. 



Habitat: Palm Springs, Riverside Co., Calif. (March). 1 5, 2 2. 

 Types, Coll. Barnes. 



Allied to puertalis B. & McD. but ruddier in color with a differ- 

 ently formed t. p. line. 



NOCTUELIA VIRULA sp. HOV. (PI. XXIII, Fig. 9). 



Palpi white below, brownish above ; head and thorax red-brown with 

 white lines above eyes and along margin of patagia ; primaries olivaceous brown 

 with a slight ruddy tinge; a white shade at base above inner margin; t. a. line 

 far out, rigidly inwardly oblique, blackish, bordered broadly outwardly with 

 white; t. p. line black, starting from costa near apex, perpendicular to vein 

 4, bent backward sharply to near t. a. line and then outwardly oblique to anal 

 angle, the portions of the line above and below the prominent bend shaded in- 

 wardly with white; a fine white terminal line; fringes light brown in basal 

 half, white outwardly. Secondaries in 3 pure white with faint terminal 

 brown dots, in $ with a continuous brown terminal line and dusky fringes 

 on both wings. Beneath primaries smoky, secondaries white. Expanse 12 mm. 



Habitat: Palm Springs, Riverside Co., CaUf. (March). 3 S, 3 9. 

 Types, Coll. Barnes. 



Closely allied to bnbubattalis Hist, but smaller and easily dis- 

 tinguished by the white secondaries. 



CoRNiFRONS ACTUALis sp. nov. (PI. XXII, Fig. 18). 



Head white; thorax white peppered with black, patagia black-bordered; 

 primaries white suffused with dark gray in lower half of wing and subtermin- 

 ally; t. a. line very oblique, arising from middle of costa, with prominent tooth 

 in the cell and a distinct tooth at inner margin; reniform a small obscure dark 

 shade; t. p. line arising nearer apex than usual, angled outwardly on vein 7, 

 then crenulate and curving gently backward to vein 3 where it again juts 

 sharply outward, forms two teeth, and curves back to inner margin; in the 

 upper half of the wing it is preceded by a broad white area, and beyond it 

 except at apex (which is white) the subterminal area is largely gray; terminal 

 area narrowly white; dark terminal line; fringes pale, smoky at tips. Sec- 

 ondaries whitish, shaded with smoky outwardly with traces in central area 

 of a dark curved s. t. line opposite which is a very distinct dark terminal line 

 which fades considerably toward apex and inner margin; fringes white, tipped 

 with smoky opposite dark portion of terminal line. Beneath primaries pale 

 smoky, secondaries white. Expanse 28 mm. 



Habitat: S, Loma Linda, S. Bernardino Co., Calif. (Mch.) ; 9, Palm 

 Springs, Riverside Co., Calif. (Mch.) 1 S, I 9. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



