NYMPHULINAE 
ARGYRACTIS? CONFUSALIS sp. nov. (PI. VIII, Fig. 11). 
Primaries light brown, costa shaded with dark brown; an indistinct whitish 
subbasal line, rather broad and slightly oblique; a white median line, slightly 
dentate below costa and on median vein and then oblique to middle of inner 
margin, preceded along inner margin by some dark brown shading and followed 
for more or less its whole length by similar dark shade; a broad white oblique 
subterminal line from costa 1/4 from apex to vein 3 near outer margin, then 
abruptly and strongly incurved below submedian fold and bent outwards again 
to anal angle; beyond the cell between median and subterminal lines some 
obscure black markings which at times are centered with white and have appear- 
ance of two white spots separated by a dark streak; subterminal space sprinkled 
with dark brown; from costa near apex a white streak descends to vein 3, 
broadest at costa, nearly touching angle of subterminal line; bordered outwardly 
by fine dark line; dark terminal line; fringes smoky checkered with white. 
Secondaries white, a diffuse smoky subbasal patch in cell and another below 
middle of inner margin; an indistinct median smoky line, forming a prominent 
bar at end of cell then bent inwards towards spot near inner margin, turning 
again on vein I at right angles and attaining inner margin near anal angle; 
beyond median line costal 1/2 of wing is sprinkled with smoky scales; a terminal 
row of 6 small black spots between veins 2 and 6, separated by metallic scales, 
a terminal yellowish line broadest at costa; fringes white lengthening towards 
anal angle. Beneath much as above but paler with markings semiobsolete. 
Expanse 19 mm. 
Hasitat. White Mts., Ariz. 6 ¢. Type, Coll. Barnes. 
Vein 4 of secondaries is absent, the palpi are upturned with 3rd 
joint acuminate; the species would thus fall according to Hampson in 
the genus Argyractis (Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1897, p. 135) if it were not 
for the fact that vein 10 of primaries is separate from 8 and 9, arising 
from a point with same in all our specimens. This would in fact throw 
the species among the Pyraustids but as we know of no genus in this 
subfamily with vein 4 absent to which it could possibly belong, and as 
further the general appearance is so distinctly Nymphulid, we prefer 
to retain it in this association. 
