NO. 1507. NE W AMERICA N TINEID MO THS— ]VA LSISGHA M. 211 



while waiting for me to start on my collecting trip in California and 

 Oregon, took a single specimen (No. 90428) at Sacramento between 

 April 24 and May 16, 1871. 



Genus HYPATOPA, new name. 



i/i/patima Herrich-Scuaeffeh, Syst. Besciii. Schmett. Eur.,V, 1853, pp. 47, 217, 

 pi. XIII, figs. 15-16 (not Hiibner). — Staudinger and Rebel, Cat. Lep. Eur., 

 Pt. 2, 1901, p. 164, No. 353.— Dyar, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 52, 1902, 

 p. 528. 



Type of genus. — Oecophora inunctella Zeller. 



A. HINDWINGS WITH VEINS 3 AND 4 STALKED. 



HYPATOPA TEXANELLA, new species. 



Antennx, male, with conspicuous pecten, but without notch; pale 

 brownish gray. 



Palpi brownish gray, slightly darker on their outer side. 



Head brownish cinereous. 



Thorax cinereous, shaded with brownish gray. 



Forewings hoary whitish cinereous, shaded and speckled with 

 brownish gray, especially at the base, along the costa, more widely 

 on the outer half, as well as on the apical and dorsal portions of the 

 wing; with an outwardly curved, ill-defined, brownish gray fascia, 

 at about one-third from the base, followed by a discal spot of the 

 same color slightly above the middle; at the end of the cell are two 

 spots, one above the other, corresponding to the angles of the cell, and 

 below and beyond these is a less clearly definetl spot touching the 

 dorsum about the tornus; cilia brownish gray. 



Alar expanse. — 14-16 mm. 



Hindwings and cilia pale 3'ellowish brown, the former with a rather 

 shining gloss. 



Abdomen pale yellowish brown. 



Legs pale yellowish brown, the tarsi faintly mottled. 



Type.— Male, No. 33087; female. No. 33089, Mus. Walsingham; 

 paratypes male and famale, Cat. No. 10671, U.S.N.M. 



Hahitat.—Bosque County, Texas. April 28-May 20, October 6-10, 

 1876 (Belfrage, collector). Nine specimens. 



HYPATOPA EPISCIA, new species. 



Antennse, paljn, head, and thorax uniformly grayish cinereous. 



Forewings grayish cinereous, somewhat mottled with slightly 

 darker shades; the first of these at the basal third takes the form of a 

 rather wide band from the costa, but does not reach the dorsum; 

 beyond this lies a small darkened spot, and about the tornus is a 

 small patch of the same color preceded and followed by others smaller 

 and less conspicuous; cilia concolorous with the wing. 



