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9 . Much paler than the $ , almost yellowish with the white markings 

 on the veins more extended ; the secondaries are whitish with a faint brownish 

 border; fringes whitish. Expanse 18-20 mm. 



Habitat: San Diego, Calif. 13 i, 6 2. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



The practical absence of the proboscis would place the species 

 in the Australian genus Ubida Wlk. according to Hampson's key but 

 we prefer for the present to place it in Playtcs with which it agrees 

 in all other respects. We employ an Mss. name given by W. D. Kear- 

 fott and found on specimens in his Pyralid collection recently acquired 

 by us ; the name has never been published but specimens may have 

 been distributed and our use of the same name will obviate any change 

 in nomenclature. 



MACROTHECINAE 



Alpheias transferens Dyar. 



This recently described species (Ins. Ins. Menstr. V, 82) is the 

 one figured by us in Contr. I (5) PI. Ill, Figs. 10, 13, under the 

 erroneous name of ponda Dyar; it is not vicarilis Dyar as Dr. Dyar 

 suggested (Ins. Ins. Menstr. I, 22) which species is probably a syn- 

 onym of baccalis Rag. according to our notes on the type in Paris. 



The following two species appear to be new. 



Macrotheca bilinealis sp. nov. (PI. XXIV, Fig. 11). 



Thorax and primaries even gray, the latter crossed by two black distinct 

 lines, the inner about the middle of wing, almost rigidly perpendicular to inner 

 margin with ver>' slight angle below the cell, the outer near margin of wing, 

 oblique, subparallel to outer margin ; faint dark fringe dots and a minute obsolete 

 discal dot. Secondaries pale smoky. Expanse 18 mm. 



Habitat: Paradise, Cochise Co., Ariz. (June) 2 $. Types, Coll. 

 Barnes. 



Macrotheca angulalis sp. nov. (PI. XXIV, Fig. 12). 



Primaries gray, heavily suffused with black, especially in median area and 

 shaded broadly but faintly with ochreous along inner margin ; two heavy black 

 cross-lines, the inner forming a very prominent outward angle in the cell and 

 bordered inwardly with a fine white line; the outer slightly irregular, sub- 

 parallel to outer margin ; a dark discal streak and a black, somewhat inter- 

 rupted terminal line; secondaries pale smoky. The 5 is more obscured with 

 smoky with less distinct maculation. Expanse 19 mm. 



Habitat: $ Tehachapi. Kern Co., Calif ; 9 Camp Baldy, S. Bern. Mts., 

 Calif. 1 S, I 9 . Types, Coll. Barties. 



