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or three black dots on this section ; fringes pale basally with the portion opposite 

 the black dots shiny; a dark median line and the extreme tips brownish. Sec- 

 ondaries whitish (at times pale smoky) with a brownish marginal line, diffuse 

 at apex. Beneath primaries pale brownish, secondaries whitish. Expanse 14-15 

 mm. 



Habitat: San Diego, Calif. (July-Aug.) 7 $. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



We employ one of W. D. Kearfott's Mss. names as specimens 

 have possibly been distributed under this name. 



Thaumatopsis actuellus sp. nov. (PI. XXIV, Fig. 6). 



3 antennae unipectinate. Primaries light brown with a broad white 

 streak from base of wing through the cell to the outer margin above which 

 the costal area is deep brown ; veins as well as a streak through the submedian 

 fold outlined in dark brown partially covered with white scaling. Secondaries 

 deep black-brown with paler fringes. Beneath smoky. Expanse 20-25 mm. 



Habitat: Lakeland, Fla. (May); St. Petersburg, Fla. (Nov.); Stemper, 

 Fla. (July) ; Southern Pines, N. C. (Aug.). 1 $,3 9. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



Very similar to pectinifcr Zell. from Texas but in this species 

 the white streak does not extend beyond the cell. 



Platytes puritellus Kft. (syn. dinephei.alis Dyar). 



This species, of which the two 9 types are before us (not $ 

 and 9 as erroneously listed in the original description, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. 35, p. 393) has been redescribed recently by Dr. Dyar 

 (1917, Ins. Insc. Menst. V, 85) under the name dinephelalis; we 

 possess a $ specimen which we have compared with the type in the 

 National Museum. 



Platytes damon sp. nov. (PI. XXIV, Figs. 13, 14). 



$ . Antennae lamellate, rather thick and strongly compressed laterally, 

 palpi long, porrect, covered with mixed brown and white hairs ; thorax and 

 primaries rather a bright brown, the latter with the main veins marked in 

 white and those beyond the cell blackish with narrow white edging on both 

 sides ; two white streaks through the cell as well as one in the submedian 

 fold all partially black sprinkled ; a more or less complete submarginal white 

 line sprinkled with black scales and a prominent white line at base of fringes 

 bordered outwardly by a narrow brown line beyond which the fringes are dusky. 

 Secondaries deep smoky with somewhat paler fringes which show an ochreous 

 basal line. Beneath light smoky with a prominent white line at base of fringes. 

 Expanse 15-17 mm. 



