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PHALONIIDAE 



IIv-TEROSIA PERSIMCTANA. n. sp. PI. XXVIII, Fig. 5. 



Labial palpi whitish gray, sprinkled with dark brown scales. Head and 

 thorax whitish gray sprinkled with brown. Forewings without costal fold in the 

 male; the white ground color thickly and evenly dusted with gray, black and light 

 fawn colored scales so as to appear gray to the unaided eye ; from the middle 

 of costa to near base of dorsum runs a dark gray narrow^ fascia, ill defined out- 

 wardly, but sharply outlined basally by a line of white scales; a large blackish 

 brown transverse spot, undulated in outline toward the base and outwardly 

 curved toward apex reaches from apical fourth of costa to tomus and is edged 

 outwardly by a line of pure white scales; an indistinct triangular dark gray 

 area before tomus is emphasized by a lighter gray edge toward the base of the 

 wing; cilia white with base and tips brown. Hindwings whitish, heavily but 

 indefinitely mottled with transverse gray strialion, which is more pronounced on 

 the underside ; cilia white dotted with brown. Underside of forewings light 

 brown with the outer curved white line and the dark subapical spot of the upper 

 surface clearly indicated. Abdomen li.ght grayish brown. Legs whitish, dusted 

 with brown. 



Alar e,\p.".nse : 25-27 mm. 



H.\r.iTAT : Paradise, Cochise Co., Arizona. 



Type and cutvpes in Collection Barnes; cotvpes in U. S. National Museum 

 (No. 22647). 



Nearest to //. tcnninaua Busck, but ver_v distinct from any of our 

 described species of the gentis by its soft gray color and the externally 

 white edged dark apical sjiot. 



HVSTEROSIA CANARIANA, n. sp. PI. XXVIII, Fig. 6. 



Labial palpi light yellow, mottled externally with brown. Face, head and 

 thorax light yellow. Forewings pale canary yellow, overlaid with darker yel- 

 low scales and with reddish brown and blackish markings; costal fold of the 

 male blackish brown, reaching to basal third; a series of faint, equidistant, light 

 brown dots along costal edge beyond the fold ; an inwardly oblique blackish 

 brown streak across the base of the cell; a small black spot at the end of the 

 cell and a reddish brown streak, mixed with black scales across the tip of the 

 wing from apical fourth to tornus. Cilia reddish white. Hindwings light fus- 

 cous with faint transverse darker striation. Abdomen dark fuscous with yellow 

 anal tuft. Legs light ochreous. 



Alar expanse: 19-23 mm. 



Habit.'m: White Mountains, Arizona. 



Type and cotvpes in Collection Barnes ; cotvpes in U. S. National Museum 

 (No. 22648). 



