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interesting lot of material from the desert region of Southern Cali- 

 fornia. 



EREBINAE 



Melipotis bkunneifasciata sp. nov. (PI. I, Fig. 4). 



Head and thorax gray, two longitudinal dark streaks on the collar; meta- 

 thorax tinged with ruddy; primaries with basal space gray limited outwardly by a 

 band of deep brown about 1 mm. in width, outwardly oblique from costa to 

 submedian fold with a slight outward bulge in the cell, in the fold making 

 a rather sharp angle and then inwardly oblique to inner margin; this band is 

 edged outwardly by a blackish t. a. line followed by a faint narrow yellowish 

 shade; median space bright ruddy brown forming a very conspicuous band 

 across the wing, the outer third slightly suffused with smoky; this median 

 band is limited outwardly from the base of vein 3 to inner margin by a rather 

 rigid black t. p. line shaded inwardly with yellowish and bent outward below 

 vein 1 ; the white rigid inner border line of the reniform which practically 

 continues the t. p. line from vein 2 forms the boundary of the median band 

 for the remainder of the wing except at costa where there is no sharp de- 

 fining line ; the dark gray reniform is not sharply defined outwardly but is 

 followed by a white shade line tending to extend along veins 3 and 4 in short 

 streaks ; from vein 3 the t. p. line forms the customary bulge around the cell 

 being slightly angled on vein 4, strongly angled on vein 6 and squarely angled 

 below costa ; the submedian space is dark gray, limited by a pale waved s. t. 

 line, preceded in costal portion by several black arrow marks ; the rather broad 

 terminal space is light gray, slightly smoky outwardly; outer margin strongly 

 scalloped with dark intervenular points ; fringe smoky. Secondaries white 

 in basal half, deep smoky brown outwardly with a slight whitish patch on 

 outer margin below vein 2; fringe white tinged with smoky between veins 2-4 

 and at inner angle. Beneath white with a broad blackish band outwardly, 

 primaries with a curved blackish band from costa at the end of cell to the 

 outer dark band, enclosing a quadrate white space ; secondaries with a faint 

 discal dot ; fringes pale, shaded with smoky. Expanse 37 mm. 



Habitat: Camp Baldy, S. Bern. Co., Calif. (July 16). 1 S, 1 2. Types, 

 Coll. Barnes. 



This handsome species is closely allied to fumosa Stkr. of which 

 it is possibly merely a geographical race; it may be readily distin- 

 guished by the ruddy brown median band, much deeper and brighter 

 than in fumosa from Texas. 



HYPENINAE 



OXYCILLA BASIPALLIDA Sp. nOV. (PI. Ill, Fig. 2). 



9 . Palpi porrect, smoothly scaled, extending well beyond head, dark 

 gray, 3rd joint ochreous; primaries with basal area gray with a slight purplish 



