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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  vol.44. 
  

  

  gular 
  white 
  spot 
  in 
  cell, 
  beyond 
  which 
  a 
  dark 
  band, 
  broad 
  on 
  costa; 
  

   a 
  narrow 
  submarginal 
  line, 
  partly 
  attached 
  to 
  the 
  small 
  reticulations; 
  

   termen 
  narrowly 
  dark. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  with 
  the 
  spot 
  in 
  the 
  cell 
  large 
  with 
  

   an 
  indentation 
  outwardly, 
  aU 
  the 
  area 
  beyond 
  it 
  to 
  the 
  termen 
  dark; 
  

   submarginal 
  line 
  indistinct 
  antl 
  broken. 
  Body 
  parts 
  yellowish, 
  

   olivaceous 
  gray. 
  Expanse, 
  23 
  mm. 
  

  

  Type. 
  — 
  One 
  male. 
  No. 
  14305, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  Zacualpan, 
  Mexico, 
  June, 
  

   1910 
  (R. 
  Miiller). 
  

  

  Family 
  PYRALID.5:. 
  

  

  Subfamily 
  I>YI?,A.TJSTIN^E. 
  

   Genus 
  PHLYCT^ENODES 
  Guen^e. 
  

   Pm-YCTiENODES 
  CUPREICOSTALIS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Lustrous 
  yellowish, 
  the 
  wings 
  semitranslucent; 
  collar 
  and 
  costa 
  

   cupreous 
  brown; 
  lines 
  slender, 
  brown-gray; 
  inner 
  line 
  even, 
  gently 
  

   curved; 
  orbicular 
  and 
  reniform 
  gray-brown, 
  solid; 
  outer 
  line 
  gently 
  

   outcurved, 
  then 
  running 
  inward 
  on 
  vein 
  2 
  to 
  a 
  point 
  below 
  origin 
  of 
  

   vein 
  3, 
  then 
  straight 
  to 
  inner 
  margin; 
  termen 
  narrowly 
  cupreous 
  

   brown; 
  fringe 
  gray- 
  brown. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  with 
  a 
  single 
  mesial 
  line, 
  

   similar 
  to 
  the 
  outer 
  line 
  of 
  fore 
  wing, 
  more 
  sharply 
  angled 
  on 
  its 
  bend 
  

   on 
  vein 
  3, 
  the 
  reentrant 
  part 
  obsolete; 
  fringe 
  as 
  on 
  fore 
  wing. 
  Ex- 
  

   panse, 
  27 
  mm. 
  

  

  Cotypes. 
  — 
  Male 
  and 
  female, 
  No. 
  14449, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  Guadalajara, 
  

  

  Mexico 
  (Schaus 
  collection) 
  ; 
  Sierra 
  de 
  Guerrero, 
  Mexico, 
  August, 
  1911 
  

  

  (R. 
  Miiller). 
  

  

  Genus 
  NOMOPHILA 
  Hubner. 
  

  

  NOMOPHILA 
  mREGULALIS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Fore 
  wing 
  powdery 
  gray, 
  with 
  a 
  somewhat 
  carneous 
  underground, 
  

   darker 
  shaded 
  along 
  the 
  costa; 
  inner 
  line 
  slender, 
  blackish, 
  irregularly 
  

   dentate; 
  orbicular 
  a 
  dot; 
  reniform 
  a 
  black 
  crescent; 
  outer 
  line 
  

   strongly 
  excurved 
  over 
  cell 
  and 
  bent 
  on 
  vein 
  1, 
  irregularly 
  dentate, 
  

   the 
  points 
  a 
  little 
  pronounced 
  with 
  a 
  slight 
  tendency 
  to 
  form 
  dots; 
  

   a 
  terminal 
  slender 
  black 
  line. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  silky, 
  whitish, 
  with 
  faint 
  

   carneous 
  tint. 
  Expanse, 
  27 
  mm. 
  

  

  Cotypes. 
  — 
  Male 
  and 
  female. 
  No. 
  14497, 
  U.S.N.M., 
  Tehuacan, 
  Mex- 
  

   ico, 
  September, 
  1911 
  (R. 
  Miiller). 
  

  

  Genus 
  PYRAUSTA 
  Schrank. 
  

   PYRAUSTA 
  MINIMISTRICTA, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Fore 
  wing 
  dark 
  gray, 
  slightly 
  or 
  completely 
  washed 
  with 
  crimson; 
  

   an 
  outer 
  broad 
  pale 
  gray 
  band, 
  oblique, 
  a 
  little 
  inflexed 
  below; 
  a 
  faint 
  

   light 
  ray 
  outwardly 
  from 
  base. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  dark 
  fuscous, 
  a 
  little 
  

   lighter 
  toward 
  base. 
  Expanse, 
  14 
  mm. 
  

  

  