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Named in honor of the collector. 



This species is intermediate in size and form of the wing 

 between the next following species and Scardiu fiiscofasciella 

 Chambers, but distinguished from both by the absence of 

 transverse pattern. 



Scardia pravatella, n. sp. 



Labial palpi ochreous, mottled with dark brown exteriorly and on the 

 brush and with a brown ring around the middle of the terminal joint. 

 Antennae yellowish fuscous, annulated with dark fuscous. Face and 

 head dirty yellowish fuscous. Thorax dirty ochreous, sprinkled with 

 fuscous anteriorly. Fore wings rather broad and rounded at apex, 

 dirty ochreous, with a purplish sheen and with dark-brown markings. 

 Basal third of the wing profusely mottled with brown and with a 

 few large, ill-defined, confluent brown blotches ; after this follows a 

 broad, transverse, nearly unmottled dirty-yellow area, oblique nearest 

 the base on dorsal side and sharply angulated outwardly, where it 

 is limited by a broad, dark-brown transverse area; costal edge marked 

 with many small brown dashes nearly equidistant and with three some- 

 what larger quadrate spots, one on basal third, one just outside the 

 middle of the wing, and one before apex ; the latter begins a trans- 

 verse row of ill-defined brown spots parallel with the terminal edge; 

 termen with one small and two larger dark-brown spots, which emit 

 dark rays out into the otherwise light ochreous cilia. Hind wings 

 light ochreous fuscous. Abdomen ochreous. Legs ochreous, anterior 

 pairs mottled with dark brown exteriorly. 



Alar expanse, 23 mm. 



New Brighton, Pa. (H. D. Merrick). 



Type. — No. 11340, U. S. National Museum. 



This species is nearest to Scardia fuscofasciella Chambers 

 and has nearly the same ornamentation and outline of wing, 

 but it is considerably smaller and with more defined dark basal 

 third of the fore wings. 



Scardia errandella, n. sp. 



I give this new name to the American species which has for 

 many years been recorded as the European Scardia tessnlatella 

 Zeller, and which is well described by Doctor Dietz under that 

 name (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xxxi, p. 26, 1905). Doctor Dietz 

 did not have European specimens and made his identification 

 of his British Columbia specimen from the description, with 

 which it agrees in a general way. But the American species 

 diflfers in several respects and is certainly distinct from tessn- 

 latella, though it eventually may prove only a small variety of 



