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antenna much thinner with finer ciliations ; the eyes too are more 

 sparsely haired than in either of the other species. Besides the types 

 we have a series of what seems to be the same species from Truckee, 

 Calif., captured in September. 



CUCULLIINAE 



Oncocnemis sagittata sp. nov. (PI. I, Fig. 8). 



Front whitish, sprinkled with black and with a dark interantennal tuft; 

 collar white, crossed by a black line at base, a smoky one at center and a broader 

 line at the apex leaving the tips white; thorax rather blackish with scattered 

 white sprinkles and a small orange tuft on metathorax dorsally ; primaries gray, 

 basal portion to t. a. line blackish ; t. a. line outwardly oblique, obsolete in costal 

 portion, consisting of a scallop in the fold and another below vein 1, both edged 

 inwardly by white ; median space gray, suffused with blackish between the spots ; 

 orbicular small, oval, outlined with pale gray; reniform diffuse outwardly, de- 

 fined inwardly by a black lunate line bordered with white beyond which is a 

 dull orange shade; t. p. line scarcely visible, marked by a curved dark shade 

 line at costa and a perpendicular white waved line below reniform ; subterminal 

 area deep blackish except in costal portion beyond the t. p. line which is gray, 

 bordered outwardly by a very sharply dentate white s. t. line, close to the outer 

 margin, the points of the teeth mostly touching the same, the inward dentations 

 being prolonged by black arrow marks of which that above vein 4 is heaviest; 

 terminal area sprinkled with whitish with black shading in the central inter- 

 spaces and a terminal dark broken line; fringes pale, checkered and sprinkled 

 with smoky. Secondaries whitish ochreOus with broad black terminal band and 

 pale fringes. Beneath white with a broad dark terminal border, the pale area 

 of primaries more or less suffused with smoky and with an indistinct discal 

 lunule, secondaries with costa sprinkled with smoky and with small discal dot; 

 fringes as above. Expanse 32 mm. 



Habitat: Yavapai Co., Ariz. (Sept. 20) 1 $. Type, Coll. Barnes. 



CONISTRA FRINGATA Sp. nov. (PI. I, Fig. 1). 



Head and thorax red-brown tinged with gray; primaries rather a bright 

 red-brown, basal area to t. a. line sprinkled with gray; an angled basal half 

 line; t. a. line pale, narrow, concave outwardly; median space red-brown; 

 reniform long, narrow, only distinct outwardly where it is edged with pale 

 yellow; t. p. line pale, angled below costa, slightly incurved below reniform; 

 s. t. line pale yellow, rather irregular, preceded by an olivaceous shade which 

 is defined inwardly by a rigid, whitish, rather broad line proceeding from 

 costa near apex to inner margin at anal angle where it touches the s. t. 

 line; terminal space slightly sprinkled with gray; fringes ruddy. Secondaries 

 deep smoky with contrasting ruddy fringes. Beneath smoky, tinged considerably 



