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to be continued by the portion of the t. p. line following the sinus; terminal 
dark line; fringes whitish, cut by a dark line. Beneath essentially as above. 
Expanse 19 mm. 
Hasitat. Redington, Ariz) 1 ¢, 1 9. Types, Coll. Barnes. 
The front is rather roundedly prominent, but hardly sufficient we 
think to place the species in the genus Metasia. The pale color and the 
lack of prominent maculation are distinctive. 
PyRAUSTA PSEUDORANALIS sp. nov. (PI. I, Fig. 23). 
Palpi brownish outwardly, white beneath; head, thorax and wings pale 
ochreous, the latter slightly sprinkled with brown scales; primaries with t. a. 
line dark, outwardly rounded, slightly waved; t. p. line dark, waved, straight 
from costa to vein 2, then bent inwards and upwards to below reniform and 
again straight to inner margin with slight angle on vein 1; orbicular round, 
secarcely indicated by faint dark outline; reniform lunate, outlined in smoky; 
terminal dark dotted line; fringes plumbeous with darker basal line. Second- 
aries with t. p. line dark, sinuous, with strong inward bend along vein 2, and 
slight outward bend on vein 5; terminal line and fringes as on primaries. 
Beneath paler than above with markings showing through. Expanse 24 mm. 
Hasitat. White Mts., Ariz.; Palmerlee, Ariz.; Jemez Spgs., N. M. (July 
8-15). 3 6,5 2. Types, Coll. Barnes. 
Remarkably like Blepharomastix ranalis Gn. in markings, but 
slightly larger, and differing in palpal structure, these being long and 
beak-like, considerably longer than in ranalis; the t. p. line is also 
slightly more waved in our new species; the color is much paler than 
that of the Arizona form of ranalis. 
PYRAUSTA LUSCITIALIS sp. nov. (Pl. I, Fig. 24). 
Palpi brown above, white beneath; head, thorax and abdomen brown, 
latter white-ringed; antennae in ¢ rather lengthily ciliate, in Q almost simple; 
primaries white, heavily scaled with deep brown leaving only traces of ground 
color in the shape of a few suffused patches in median area and beyond t. p. 
line; t. a. line lost in the dark suffusion; orbicular and reniform dark blotches, 
separated by a square white patch; t. p. line deep brown, dentate, strongly bent 
in below reniform almost to origin of vein 2, preceded and followed by small 
whitish patches, forming outwardly a broken row of white spots culminating 
in a larger patch above inner margin almost filling the bend of the t. p. line; 
fringes checkered brown and white at base, brown outwardly. Secondaries 
whitish, more or less suffused with smoky, with a broad deep brown marginal 
band, narrowing towards anal angle and scarcely attaining same; a postmedian 
slightly dentate dark line, bent inwards on vein 2 and separated from dark ter- 
minal area by a narrow whitish band; fringes as on primaries; beneath much 
as above, but paler. Expanse 25-28 mm. 
Hasirat. Redington, Ariz. 1 ¢, 8 9. Types, Coll. Barnes. 
