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PYRAUSTA CORINTHALIS sp. noy. (PI. I, Fig. 27). 
Head and thorax olive brown; primaries with basal half olive brown, outer 
half rose-pink with an oblique white subterminal band parallel to outer margin; 
fringes pink. Secondaries smoky brown; fringes smoky, whitish outwardly. 
Expanse 18 mm. 
Hasitat. Palmerlee, Ariz. (Biederman). 1 ¢,2 2. Types, Coll. Barnes. 
Allied to volupialis Grt. but without the inner white line. 
NOcTUELIA TECTALIs sp. nov. (PI. II, Fig. 10). 
Head, thorax and abdomen light gray; primaries light gray, the median 
and terminal areas variably shaded with red-brown; basal portion of wing even 
light gray, this section bordered by a fine red-brown t. a. line, inwardly oblique, 
bent slightly inwards at costa, bordered by broad whitish shade; inner margin 
before t. a. line red-brown; median area largely red-brown with dark obscure 
lunate shade representing reniform; t. p. line fine, irregularly dentate, brown, 
from costa near apex slightly outwardly oblique to vein 4, bent inwards along 
this vein to below reniform, then slightly outwardly inclined to inner margin 
just before anal angle, bordered inwardly with white; terminal area shaded with 
red-brown with white terminal line; fringes long, gray-brown, basal half darker. 
Secondaries smoky brown with white spot on vein 2 near outer margin; 
fringes smoky on basal %, outer portion whitish tipped with smoky. Beneath 
smoky, primaries darker than secondaries. Expanse 13 mm. 
Hasitat. Babaquivera Mts., Ariz. (type 6); Redington, Ariz.; Wilgus, 
Ariz.; Deming, N. M. (Sept. 1-7); Ft. Wingate, N. M. (May 24-30) (type 2). 
7 4,4 2. Types, Coll. Barnes. 
Belongs in the group with puertalis B. & McD. with roof-like 
frontal prominence. 
NOcTUELIA ACHEMONALIS sp. nov. (PI. II, Fig. 12). 
Head and thorax olivaceous; primaries with basal third deep pink, ex- 
tending narrowly along costa to near apex; remainder of wing pale olivaceous 
ochreous, bordered along outer margin narrowly with pink; fringes smoky. 
Secondaries deep smoky with concolorous fringes. Beneath pale smoky. Ex- 
panse 12 mm. 
Hasitat., Redington, Ariz.; Deming, N. M. (Sept.). 7 6, 4 2. Types, 
Coll. Barnes. 
The front of this species is roundedly protuberant, but not nearly 
sO prominent as in typical members of the Noctuelia group; the species 
might possibly be referred to Metasia as the palpi have the 3rd joint 
rather hidden in the scaling. In general appearance the species re- 
sembles somewhat the Jaticlavia group of Pyrausta, but the palpi are 
