NO. 1465. TEXAN TINE 11 > MOTHS— BUSCK. 7.38 



EUPRORA ARGENTILINIELLA, new species. 



Antenna? olive brown, with two longitudinal silveiy white lines 

 through the entire length from base to tip; tuft on tirst antennal joint 

 white, very sparsely sprinkled with single ochreous scales. Face and 

 head pure white; labial palpi white, tuft on second joint slightly 

 sprinkled with ochreous on the exterior side. The palpal and antennal 

 taf ts together form a very striking white cross when viewed from the 

 front. Thorax golden ochreous; patagina edged with white. Fore- 

 wings golden ochreous with silvery white markings; costal edge white; 

 from base of wing run two short longitudinal white 

 lines, one in the middle of the wing, ending in the cell; ,cl=^-%'^*-^'--- 

 the other below the fold, reaching the dorsal edge at ""'iVir 



l)asa] third. A slender white outwardly directed spur Cti-' ~Vi^- 

 from the costal edge at basal fourth ends in the middle fig. 8.— head ok 

 of the cell; another heavier white line from the mid- ^iumeTla^ '"''''"" 

 die of costa curves outward and downward, following 

 the edge of the cell, and joins an opposite congruent white line from 

 the dorsal edge. Just before apex is a small white costal spot and two 

 apical veins (0 and -i) are indicated by silver}- white lines. All of these 

 white markings are thinly edged by sparse black scales, and the entire 

 apical part of the wing is sparsel}^ sprinkled with single black scales. 

 Cilia ochreous sprinkled with black. Hindwings shining, dark ochi'e- 

 ous fuscous. Abdomen ochreous. Legs silvery ochreous. 



A/ar expanse. — IT mm. 



liahltat. — Brownsville, Texas. 



Type.—C2it. No. 9776, U.S.N.M. 



A striking insect, described from a unique male, easily distinguished 

 b}' the white head ornamentation. The position of the insect at I'est 

 will surely be found to display this character prominentl}' in bold imi- 

 tation of some of its natural surroundings. 



AMYDRIA MARJORIELLA Dietz. 



Amydria marjoriella Dietz, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, XXXI, p. 11, pi. in, tig. 5. 



Twenty -live specimens. 



The erection by Doctor Dietz'* of a new subfamily for this and 

 allied genera is hardly warranted. From his own synoptic table it is 

 ])lain that not one single character given, nor any combination of his 

 characters can be maintained in the separation from his other sub- 

 family Thieinse. In spite of Doctor Dietz's claim that the two "'are 

 distinct and sharply defined" by "the apparently heretofore over- 

 looked" character the more or less distinct furcation of " vein Ih in the 

 hindwings," he himself admits that this furcation occurs in Paracle- 



<« Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, XXXI, 1905, p. 2. 



