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Lythrodes venatus n. sp. — Head and thorax pale, almost crearny yel- 

 low ; abdomen nearly white. Primaries pale yellowish along the costa and inner 

 margin, else earmineous, with all the veins relieved in pale yellow, the light 

 color expanding somewhat toward the outer margin. Fringes white, cut with 

 blackish opposite the interspaces. There is a whitish, indefined spot in the cell 

 representing the orbicular; but none other of the ordinary markings are present. 

 Secondaries white, with a faint yellowish tinge. Beneath, primaries with disk 

 smoky reddish, the margins yellowish ; maculation of the upper side faintly re- 

 produced. Secondaries as above. Expands 1 11 inches = 28 mm. 



Hub. — Santa Fe, New Mexico, in July, at light. 



One female in rather poor condition from Prof. T. D. A. Cocker- 

 ell, numbered 3783, and there is a similar specimen from the same 

 source in the collection of the U. S. National Museum. The species 

 is much larger than radiatus, and, whereas in the latter, the main 

 color is yellowish and the streaks are red, in venatus red is the domi- 

 nant tint from which the yellow veins stand out in some relief. 



Lytlirodes discistriga n. sp.— Head and thorax whitish ; head with 

 transverse rusty brown frontal and vertexal lines; thorax with a central and 

 two lateral longitudinal rusty brown lines extending from base of collar to base 

 of disc; patagia brown mottled. Primaries whitish, all the veins lined with 

 rusty brown and an additional line through the submediau interspace. In the 

 basal area there is a yellowish shading, and the veins are more heavily marked. 

 At the end of the submediau its branches are shaded with brown in the inter- 

 spaces, and at the apex the veins are also more heavily marked. Secondaries 

 ocher-yellow, glistening. Beneath, primaries brown on the disc, paler outwardly 

 with the veins relieved ; secondaries about as above. 



Expands .8-1.00 inch = 20-25 mm. 



Hab. — Walter's Station, California, in April ; Southern Arizona, 

 April 1-15. 



Two male examples; the California example, taken by Mr. Hut 

 son, is nearly perfect and is the smaller; the Arizona specimen is 

 from Mr. Poling and is somewhat defective. Both are from what is 

 practically the same desert area ; but the difference in size between 

 examples of the same sex is unusual and a little puzzling. The 

 abdomen is of the same yellow shade as the secondaries, and this, 

 with the maculate thorax and rusty instead of red streaking will 

 easily separate the species from the preceding. 



Pseiidotauiila carniinatra n. sp.— Head black, the protuberant front 

 clothed with dense. whitish hair. Thorax blackish, with carmine scales and 

 whitish hair intermixed, the collar darker inferiorly, else forming no distinctive 

 maculation. Primaries with a carmine shading over a dull, smoky though pale 

 luteous. The scales are a little metallic or coppery, and the tint changes soine- 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXIX. JUNE, 1903. 



