"244 NOCTUtD.^K. 



*4621. Stiria consuela. 



Stiria consuela, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het., Suppl. 3. p. 34 (1900) ; Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 196, 



5 • Head and tegulse greyish white ; thorax and abdomen pale 

 ash-grey, the latter paler towards extremity. Fore wing greyish 

 white shading to purplish grey on terminal area, the base very 

 faintly tinged with yellow ; a minute discoidal point ; a large grey 

 patch on medial inner area ; postmedial line bent outwards below 

 costa, then even and obliquely curved ; cilia pale grey. Hind wing 

 pale purplish grey : cilia pure white. Underside of fore wing grey 

 with the costa and termen white ; hind wing pure white. 



Ilab. U.S.A., Arizona. Exp. 34 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me. 



4G22. Stiria hutsoni. (Plate CXLU. fig. 1G.) 

 Stibadium hutsoni, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxxiii. p. 140 (1907). 



S . Head whitish ; thorax pale olive-grey ; abdomen brownish. 

 Fore wing bright olive-grey ; a broad pale medial band not quite 

 extending to costa ; a narrower diffused pale band from apex to 

 inner margin beyond middle, slightly waved and less distinct at 

 apex ; an indistinct diffused pale terminal band ; cilia olive. Hind 

 wing uniform fuscous brown ; the underside whitish with an 

 ochreous tinge. 



Hab. U.S.A., California, Walters' Station, Arizona, Yuma Co., 

 Prescott, 1 J . Exp. 20-22 millim. 



4623. Stiria fuliginosa. (Plate CXLII. fig. 17.) 

 Stibadium fuliginosa, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxxiii. p. 140 (1907). 



Head and thorax white with a faint brown tinge ; antennae 

 and tarsi brown ; abdomen red-brown. Fore wing whitish strongly 

 suffused with red-brown to the postmedial line, the terminal area 

 white irrorated with brown ; postmedial line rather diffused, white, 

 arising from costa near apex, very oblique, slightly incurved below 

 vein 4 ; a diffused oblique white subterminal line from vein 7 to 

 inner margin ; a fine brown terminal line. Hind wing red- 

 brown irrorated with whitish, the underside white slightly irrorated 

 with brown. 



Hab. U.S.A., California, Walters' Station, 1 J , 1 $ , Arizona, 

 Phoenix. Exp. 22 millim. 



Genus XANTHIRIA, nov. 



Type, X. primulina. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, hardly reaching to 

 middle of frons and slightly fringed with hair in front ; frons with rounded 

 prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennae of male 



