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Family Paycirip*®. 
LID TERGY ORS REET LE | 1 Ce As BORN RS ae eee Mn 1 ex., Argus Mountains. 
lex. Death Valley. 
Family CRAMBID®. 
Pseudoschenobius opalescalis Hulst ...---.---.------------ 1 ex., Argus Mountains. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF PYRALIDZ FROM THE DEATH VALLEY. 
By C. H. FERNALD, Amherst, Mass. 
Loxostege oberthuralis n. sp. 
Expanse of wings, 32mm. Head and palpion the outside, bright reddish brown, 
white beneath; a white line running backward from over each eye. Thorax, pale 
yellowish, stained with reddish brown in front. Forewings, pale sulphur yellow, 
marked with reddish brown, as follows: A short stripe under the median vein at 
about the basal fourth of the wing and a smaller one in the middle of the cell. There 
is no indication of an inner cross-line, but the outer one starts from the outer fourth 
of the costa and gives off two small teeth outwardly, one inwardly nearly to the 
end of the subcostal vein, thence the line curves outwardly more than half way from 
the cell to the outer margin, and runs into vein 2, and after giving off a sharp out- 
ward tooth on the fold, is lost. The space between the cell and the outward curve 
is filled in with reddish brown, broken by two teeth of the ground color, extending 
inwardly from the ontside, the upper and larger one extending nearly in to the mid- 
dle of the end of the cell. Three geminate, wedge-shaped spots extend inward, one 
from the apex, and the others below it; and, below these, an ill defined band extends, 
parallel with the brown terminal line, to the anal angle. The fringes are pale red- 
dish brown, divided by a darker line. 
Hind wings, white, with a fuscous terminal line not reaching the anal angle within 
which the wing is stained by the same color; afaint trace of a cross line beyond the 
end of the cell. Under side of the wings and body, pale straw-yellow, the mark- 
ings of the upper side of the forewings showing faintly beneath. ; 
Described from one fresh specimen given me by Mons. Charles Ober- 
thiir, who obtained it from the late H. K. Morrison, collected in Arizona, 
and from a much-faded specimen in the National Museum, taken on 
the Argus Mountains, California, in April, 1891. 
Loxostege flavalis n. sp. 
Expanse of wings, 20 mm. Head, thorax, and forewings, light ocher yellow. 
Labial palpi, darker yellow on the outside, white beneath. The outer cross-line is 
represented by a row of more or less diffuse dark brown dots arising from a little 
beyond the middle of the hind margin, and curving outward slightly, then running 
up toward, but not reaching, the outer fifth of the costa. The inner cross-line is 
represented only by a dark brown dot on the basal third of the hind margin. 
Hind wings, white, stained outwardly with very pale yellow. Under side of all 
the wings, very pale yellow. The cross-line of the fore wings, repeated beneath. 
Described from two examples from the National Museum, taken in 
southern California. 
Loxostege linealis n. sp. 
Expanse of wings, 20mm. Head, thorax, and palpi on the outside, light chestnut 
brown. Palpi, white beneath, and a white line over each eye, which extends for- 
ward and around the frontal projection. 
