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crossed by an indistinct smoky median line and suffused with smoky on costa 

 at base of wing. Expanse 29 mm. 



Habitat: Loma Linda, S. Bern. Co., Calif. (Mch., Apr.) (G. R. Pilate) 

 2 $, 3 9 . Types, Coll. Barnes. 



There is considerable variation in the amount of olivaceous suf- 

 fusion on primaries, worn specimens, in which the white overlying 

 scales have been rubbed off, being much darker in general appear- 

 ances ; in the 9 's the coloration is rather yellower than in the $ 's. 

 The species is allied to hutsoni Sm. but is considerably larger. 



Stiriodes virida sp. nov. (PI. Ill, Fig. 7). 



Head and thorax creamy, abdomen ochreous ; primaries pale creamy, 

 shaded basally and terminally with dull green and crossed by two oblique 

 bands of the same color of which the inner is twice as broad as the outer, 

 occupying the whole median area except at costa which is white ; the outer 

 band is subterminal, in general parallel to the outer margin with the outer 

 edge slightly waved ; fringes pale, checkered with smoky ; secondaries smoky 

 with pale fringes cut by a dark line; traces of a dark discal dot and curved 

 median line. Beneath primaries smoky, costa edged with whitish with a tri- 

 angular patch of same color near apex; secondaries pale, whitish, with dark 

 discal dot. Expanse 21 mm. 



Habitat: Palm Springs, Riverside Co., Calif. 2$, 2 9. Types, Coll. 

 Barnes. 



The species agrees structurally with Hampson's definition of the 

 genus Stiriodes but differs entirely in general appearance from the in- 

 cluded species, looking more like Polenta tepperi in coloration scheme. 



NOCLOA TORNIPLAGA Sp. nov. (PI. I, Fig. 7). 



Head and thorax brown-black, collar heavily sprinkled with gray; pri- 

 maries rather deep velvety brown, basal area somewhat paler, limited by a 

 blackish t. a. line, rounded gently outwardly to vein 1, then jutting outwardly 

 forming a prominent tooth just above inner margin; orbicular and reniform 

 rather paler than the surrounding area, former round, latter rectangular; 

 t. p. line bent outward below costa and slightly dentate, incurved below cell 

 and followed at this point by a pale ochreous patch occupying the whole 

 subterminal area from vein 3 to inner margin; s. t. line pale, irregular, pre- 

 ceded by darker arrow marks from costa to vein 2 ; terminal dark line ; fringes 

 dark. Secondaries whitish toward base, smoky outwardly. Beneath whitish, 

 suffused with smoky and with faint postmedian line on secondaries. Expanse 29 

 mm. 



Habitat: Palmerlee, Ariz. (Sept.). 2 9. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



