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in the British Museum, and I can offer no opinion on the deter- 

 mination, but I should not be surprised if it is referable to the 

 present species, which has somewhat narrower and more 

 pointed wings and a more vivid red coloration, 



Ethmia lassenella, n. sp. 



Labial palpi weakly developed, blackish fuscous, with a few whitish 

 hairs at base of the brush. Antennae blackish brown. Head and 

 thorax dark fuscous, nearly black. Fore wings dark fuscous ; near the 

 base is a central, round orange-yellow and red dot; following this is 

 a deep-black streak on the fold ; on the middle of the fold is a similar, 

 but larger, short, longitudinal black streak; on the middle of the wing 

 is a round black dot, and at the end of the cell is an orange-yellow 

 and red spot, edged anteriorly and posteriorly with black. Hind wings 

 of the male white, with a broad dark-fuscous border and with a long 

 pencil of soft yellow hairs at the base of costa; in the female the white 

 is limited to a basal and costal diffused shade and there is no hair- 

 pencil at base of costa. Abdomen dark bluish fuscous above and 

 below; in the female with the extreme tip orange-red; in the male the 

 anal tuft is concolorous with the abdomen. Legs blackish fuscous. 



Alar expanse, 17-18 mm. 



Redington, Arizona. 



Type. — No. 11332, U. S. National Museum. 



Named in honor of Miss Birgitte Lassen, whose conscien- 

 tious work in mounting Microlepidoptera makes their study 

 easy. 



This species belongs in the same group as umbrimarginella 

 Busck, coquilleftella Busck, and albitogata Walsingham, and is 

 intermediate between the two former; it is easily distinguished 

 from the first by its smaller size and the absence of the central, 

 longitudinal yellow streak as found in that species ; from the 

 second, by its orange spots and the dark underside of the 

 abdomen. 



Scardia caryophyllella, n. sp. 



Labial palpi dark purplish brown, with inner side, apex of second 

 joint, and base and apex of terminal joint light ochreous. Face and 

 head light ochreous. Antennae dark purplish brown, with narrow 

 ochreous annulations. Thorax ochreous mixed with fuscous ; patagia 

 dark fuscous with ochreous tips. Ground color of fore wings light 

 ochreous, extensively overlaid with dark purplish-brown markings. 

 A large rectangular purplish-brown spot near base crosses the fold, 

 but does not reach the costal edge; a similarly colored triangular spot 

 has its base on the fold and one corner on the middle of the dorsal 

 edge; a large four-cornered dark-brown spot on the middle of the 



