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fuscous, outwardly becoming black at costa ; hind wings faded white, pellucid, yel- 

 lowish outwardly. — Texas. 

 Honora obsipella/n. sp 



Expands 23 mm. Palpi light gray beneath, mouse gray above and at tip; thorax 

 dark brown ; abdomen reddish brown : fore wings reddish brown at base, more 

 marked just within basal line ; basal line well out, dentate, distinct ; middle field 

 reddish brown, discal spot blackish, faint, elongate horizontal ; outer line strongly 

 twice dentate inwardly ; ouler field reddish brown, except marginal band of gray ; 

 hind Mings dark smoky fuscous. — Texas. 

 ^' Honora fuscatella, n. sp. 



Expands 15 mm. Palpi, antenna; and thorax dark gray fuscous; head and ab- 

 domen lighter, the latter ringed with very light fuscous ; fore wings light gray, almost 

 entirely overlaid with gray fuscous, the light gray showing in the cro>s-lines and 

 sparingly over the surface ; basal line near the middle of the wing, twice waved, 

 dentate; the outer line rectangular below costa, then rounded, angular again near 

 inner margin ; hind wings pellucid smoky fuscous-— Texas. 

 Altoona ardiferella, n. sp. 



Expands 18 mm. Palpi and head mouse gray with scattered black scales; thorax 

 gray ; abdomen gray with an ochreous tint ; fore wings with a broad gray stripe 

 along costa ; base and along inner margin to middle of wing reddish ocher ; base 

 with a black dash ; outer and center portion of middle field fuscous gray ; outer field 

 gray above, fuscous below ; basal line white, straight, oblique, with black on costal 

 half outwardly, on inner half inwardly ; outer line near margin lined heavily with 

 black on both sides near costa, and all the way inwardly ; a marginal line of black 

 points more pronounced near apex ; hind wings yellowish fuscous. —Texas. 

 Zophodia longipennella, n. sp. 



Expands 25 mm. Palpi dark smoky gray ; head and thorax same color ; ab- 

 domen light clouded gray; fore wings with a broad white stripe along costa, posteriorly 

 striated with fuscous gray, gradually merging into the fuscous gray of the rest of the 

 wing ; basal line hardly discernible ; outer line faint, waved or scalloped, edged with- 

 in with blackish ; hind wings pellucid, stained whitish. — Texas. 



Hardly a typical Zophodia as the palpi are long and the wings very 

 narrow and extended. 



Homceosoma candidella, n. sp. 



Expands 20 mm. Palpi and front fuscous ; summit white ; thorax light fuscous; 

 abdomen light ocher ; fore wings pure chalk white, sparingly dusted with black and 

 fuscous scales ; costa at base very narrowly black ; basal line indeterminate save by 

 3 black points ; discal spots black, horizontal oval ; outer line faintly evidenced by a 

 slight increase of black dusting ; hind wings dark fuscous.— Arizona. 



Bandera cupidinella, n. sp. 



Expands 18 mm. Palpi dark gray : head fuscous ; thorax ocher fuscous ; ab- 

 domen ocher ; fore wings, ground color buff ocher, with 3 white stripes, the first sub- 

 costal from base to apex, the second starting from first about '/. out from base and 

 reaching to middle of outer margin, the third on vein i ; all these are edged with 

 scattered black scales, and all became difTuse and indeterminate outwardly so that 

 the ocher, white, and the black scales ar.e quite mixed in submarginal space ; hind 

 wings fuscous pellucid. — Colorado. 



