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white with ochreous basal Hne. Beneath primaries pale smoky, shiny, with 

 faint (liscal dot and postnicdian Hne ; secontlarics white, sprinkled with smoky 

 along costa and outer margin and with prominent discal dot ; fringes as above. 

 Expanse, 25 mm. 



Habitat: — Eureka, Utah, (ix, i, 10.) (Spalding), i 6. Type, 

 Coll. liarncs. 



Should be readily recognized by the black, arrow-shaped orbicular 

 and general Caradriiia-like appearance. 



Alicptinoides. Gen. nov. (Type A. ochrca sp. nov.) 



Tibiae unarmed, thoracic vcstiture scaly; palpi with and joint upturned. 3rd 

 joint porrcct ; front with a prominent shovel shaped process, hollowed out be- 

 neatli, the lower edge forming a curved rim ; beneath the process is a distinct 

 infraclypeal plate ; vein 5 from slightly below middle of discocellular, rather 

 weak. 



The frontal process is similar to that of Alcptiiia iiicj Dyar, but is 

 situated higher on the front, the infraclypeal plate forming a second 

 rim below the shovel shaped process, whereas in iiica the lower edge is 

 formed by the infraclypeal plate itself, there being thus only a single 



lower rim. 



Aleptinoides ochrea sp. nov. (Plate II, fig. 17.) 



9. Thorax and primaries pale ochreous tinged with rufous, primaries 

 rather heavily scaled with light brown, shaded with rufous at base of wing and 

 along costa; orbicular and reniform minute, obscure, slightly defined by brown 

 scaling ; t. p. line light brown, evenly rounded to below vein Cu^. near origin, 

 then straiglit to inner margin ; subterniinal area heavily scaled with light brown 

 outwardly, leaving a narrow band of the ground color margining the t. p. line 

 in which the brown scales are very sparse ; terminal area similarly scaled with 

 brown ; s. t. line a narrow waved line of pale ochreous separating the two areas ; 

 a terminal row of brown spots ; fringes pale ochre with a whitish basal line. 

 Secondaries deep smoky with a darker terminal line and pale fringes. 



Beneath primaries smoky with pale costa and fringes ; secondaries pale 

 ochreous. Expanse, 19 mm. 



Habitat: — Deming, New Mexico (Sept. 1-7). 2 99. Type, 

 Coll. Barnes. 



Tlic species bears considerable reseml)lance to our GrotcUa oliva- 

 cca, differs, however, structurally, and will fall into llamp.son's sub- 

 family AcronyctUiac; the exact position is doubtful but we w^ould 

 refer it for the present somewhere near .intaphiga. The two speci- 



