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XXIII. DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF PHALMIM. 



Acidalia lacteola n. sp. 



Antenme, vertex of head and thorax white. Abdomen 

 white, sprinkled with pale brown scales and with bands of 

 the, same color. 



Wings white, thinly sprinkled with pale brown scales, 

 marked with sinuous dark brown bands and following shade 

 lines, and with elongated black discal spots ; inner margins 

 with long white hairs, of which those opposite the bands are 

 black tipped and spatulate. 



Primaries with three transverse lines dividing the costa into 

 four nearly equal parts the two interior ones somewhat the 

 shorter : the extrabasilar band runs outwardly from the costa 

 to within the cell, where it is acutely reflected to the subme- 

 dian fold, then with an outward angle on the submedian to the 

 internal margin : the interior line is strongly reflected out 

 wardly to the subcostal, thence, outside of the discal spot, 

 with sharp angles and followed by brown scales to the inner 

 margin : the outer line is more sharply defined, less sinuous, 

 having but three prominent outward reflections, and is marked 

 by a transverse black spot on each vein. The shade-line be 

 yond this consists mainly of brown scales between the veins, 

 arranged in a sagittate form, especially seen between the me 

 dian nervules veins, 2, 3 and 4. Terminal margin marked 

 with brown scales between the veins (the fringes absent in the 

 example). 



Secondaries : the inner and outer band of the primaries are 

 continued, and present much the same character ; they divide 

 the wing on the median vein in three nearly equal parts. 



Expanse of wings, .87 in. Length of body, .25 in. 



Described from one example, a female, not in very good con 

 dition, in the collection of Mr. Otto von Meske. Received 

 from Mr. L. Heiligbrodt. 



Habitat. Bastrop, Texas. 



