two round blackish dots. T. a. line nearly straight, very slightly waved on the 

 Costa. T. p. line nearly obsolete. Reniform pale in front, with blackish longitudinal 

 dash posteriorly and connected with a dark shade reaching to internal margin. Mar- 

 gins of wing rather deeply notched, with black dots at the extremity of the nervules. 

 Secondaries a trifle paler towards the base. Underside wholly pale fawn color, 

 with black irrorations, and rather large discal spots on primaries. Fringes as well 

 as the thorax and abdomen concolorous with the wings, 



Exp. wings, 42 mm. 



iQ. Havilah, Kern Co., Cal., (R. H. Stretch). 

 I think this form is rightly placed, though I had formerly regarded 

 it as near Synedoida. Indeed, I think S. valens, Hy. Edwards, should 

 also find its position here. It is probable that the examination of these 

 two species led Mr. Grote to place the latter genus near to Toxocampa. 



Pleonectyptera obliqualis, n. sp. 



Very pale fawn drab, with a pinkish tinge. The anterior line is discontinued a 

 little beyond the middle, while the posterior is perfectly straight, and goes obliquely 

 to the costa at about 3 mm. from the apex. Both these lines are bright chestnut 

 brown, though slightly indistinct, the space between them being paler than the rest 

 of the wing. The submargmal line is composed of a broken series of dark brown 

 dots, and there are also brown dots at the ends of the nervules. The secondaries 

 have a faint indication of a median band. Beneath, both wings are stained with red- 

 dish, particularly towards the margins, and the lower side of the abdomen, tibiae and 

 tarsi are marked with the same color, 



Exp. wings, 21 mm,, i<^\ Texas, (Relfrage. ) 



Fam. PYRALID^. 



Prorasea brunneogrisea. n. sp. 



Primaries shaded with white and brown. The whole of the base and the costal 

 region very widely whitish, the white becoming clearer as it approaches the apex. 

 There are two oblique dashes of brown on costa at the apical third, and some streaks 

 of brown are intermingled with the white ground color. The posterior margin is 

 broadly brownish, and this color extends along the internal margin, but stops short 

 within 2 mm. of the base. In the brown cloud at the internal angle is a faint den- 

 tate white line. This may represent the t. p. line. The submarginal line, is incom- 

 plete, whitish, lost before the middle, while the t. a. line is very oblique from a point 

 2 mm. from the base, straight until it reaches the median nervure, thence in an 

 opposite direction towards the costa, forming an acute angle at the cell, and again 

 acutely angular to the costa. The lower wings are silver drab, with a darker mar- 

 gin, the fringe with a dark line, and an oblong dark patch between veins 3 and 4, 

 which is edged above and below with white. Beneath the color is pale fawn drab, 

 with the margins and fringes darker, and with a darker oblique blotch on the costa 

 near the apex. Thorax mixed with brown and white. Abdomen and legs fawn 

 color. 



Exp. wings, 26 mm., 1 tf, Prescot, Arizona. 



More decided in its markings than any other species of the genus, 

 the shades of color being more strongly contrasted, and the lines less ap- 

 parent. The wings are also narrower than those of P. simalis. 



