15 



with smoky with distinct discal dot and traces of a curved postmedian line; 

 fringes as on upper side. Abdomen with a small bronze terminal tuft. Expanse 

 14 mm. 



Habitat: San Benito, Texas (July, Sept.). 2 $,3 9. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



In wing shape and maculation very similar to brimleyana Dyar 

 and grandimacula Schaus but lacking the black patch at end of cell; 

 the latter species or one very similar also occurs on our Texan bor- 

 der; we have six specimens from Brownsville before us. 



Phoenicophanta bicolor sp. nov. (PI. Ill, Fig 15). 



Head and thorax rosy pink, with a yellow line behind the antennae and 

 another crossing the tips of the tegulse; the metathorax and tips of patagia are 

 also yellow ; abdomen with basal half yellow, the remainder rosy pink. Prim- 

 aries yellow, costa and terminal area broadly pink with a pink median oblique 

 fascia, irregular on outer edge and defined on costa by a narrow yellow streak 

 on each side ; a brownish terminal line, defined on inner side by yellow. 

 Secondaries pale ochreous tinged with brown and slightly pinkish outwardly 

 with indistinct pale curved median line. Beneath pale, tinged with smoky 

 in basal half with pinkish shading on costa. Expanse $ 12 mm., 9 16 mm. 



Habitat: $, Santa Catalina Mts., Ariz. (July 24-31); 9, Yavapai Co., 

 Ariz. 1 $, 1 9. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



Very similar to fiavifera Hamp. from Argentina of which it may 

 be merely a race; it is apparently smaller in size with the yellow sub- 

 terminal area much broader and the median pink band consequently 

 narrower. 



Tarachidia albimargo sp. nov. (PI. Ill, Fig. 25). 



Head and thorax deep purple black ; primaries purplish-black with the 

 exception of an irregular terminal border of creamy white; the color is 

 deepest at the base of the wings, lightening somewhat outwardly, with a 

 sinuate dark t. p. line, broadly geminate above inner margin and filled in with 

 a pale shade which contains an inconspicuous dark patch at end of cell mark- 

 ing the termination of the geminate portion ; beyond the t. p. line the s. t. 

 area is greenish black with a very irregular outer margin marking the position 

 of the s. t. line ; terminal area and fringes pale creamy. Secondaries deep 

 smoky-black. Beneath smoky with inner margin of primaries somewhat paler. 

 Expanse 18 mm. 



Habitat: Esperanza Ranch, Brownsville, Tex. (Aug. 28) ; S. Benito, Tex. 

 (Sept. 8). 3 9. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



The species differs from Hampson's characterization of the genus 

 Tarachidia in having vein 7 of primaries from the cell and not from 

 the apex of the areole; the bulging front shows also a slight central 

 tubercle; it is quite distinct from any described N. American species 



