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costa where it is preceded by a broad patch of deep-brown shading, otherwise 

 not well defined, incurved opposite the cell and dentate on veins 3 and 4, the 

 teeth being tipped with ochreous. again incurved in submedian fold ; a terminal 

 series of dark lunules ; fringes dusky with a pale broken basal line, occasionally 

 slightly checkered with ochreous. Secondaries smoky brown with two prom- 

 inent blackish spots, one on the inner margin just above anal angle, the other 

 obliquely above it on vein Cu: ; slight traces of an ochreous subterniinal line 

 near anal angle, often entirely lacking ; terminal dark line ; fringes dusky with 

 pale broken basal line. Beneath primaries smoky with the t. p. line and s. t. 

 line of upper side reproduced in costal portion ; small discal dot ; secondaries 

 pale in the basal 2/3, smoky outwardly ; a dark, irregular, dentate, median line 

 and pale indistinct subterminal line crossing the inner portion of the smoky 

 terminal band ; fringes as above. Expanse, 25-28 mm. 



Habitat : — Palmerlce, Ariz. ( Biedeniian ) . 3 c? 5 . 6 9 9 . Types, 

 Coll. Barnes. 



\\'e place the species provisionally in Tctanolita, as we are unac- 

 quainted with the ^Mexican and South American genera to one of 

 which it may belong; it agrees with Rciiia in the tufting of the 3 

 antennae; the palpi are as in Tctanolita and Blcptina. but the scaling 

 is still smoother and the 3rd joint longer and more acute ; in general 

 apijearance the species approaches Epiccu.vis with which genus it is 

 of course structurally widely at variance. 



Dercetis i!Iline.'\lis sp. nov. (Plate II, fig. 15.) 



Palpi ochreous, 3rd joint largely black tipped with whitish ; head, thorax 

 and primaries ochreous, latter suffused outwardly with smoky-brown and 

 slightly sprinkled all over with similar scales ; t. a. and t. p. lines parallel, dark 

 brown, bent outward below costa and then strongly oblique inwardly ; s. t. 

 line, when present, ochreous, shaded inwardly with smoky brown, rather rigidly 

 oblique and parallel to outer margin ; reniform obscure, scaled with yellow- 

 ochre, with a dark central line ; terminal row of black dots ; fringes dusky. 

 Secondaries whitish with slight traces near anal angle of waved postmedian 

 and submarginal lines ; a broken terminal dark line and smoky fringes. Be- 

 neath whitish, heavily shaded outwardly on both wings with bright ochreous ; 

 primaries with the t. p. line of upper side repeated in costal portion and with 

 traces of the s. t. line visible; secondaries with discal dot and the waved post- 

 median and subterminal lines more distinct than on upper side. Expanse, 

 16-18 mm. 



Habitat : — San Diego, Calif. (Field, Ricksecker) (June). 2 3 S, 

 1 9 . Types, Coll. Barnes. 



This is the first species of this genus reported from California 

 and is easily identified by the two parallel dark lines crossing i^rimaries, 

 somewhat as in Hormisa Jitophora Grt. 



