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*3829. Oxycnemis gustis. 

 Oxycnemis gustis, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x.\xiii. p. 138 (1907). 



S . Head and thorax blackish with some white scales and hair 

 mixed, the metathoracic crest with a metallic gloss ; abdomen 

 white tinged with brown. Fore wing bright blue-grey, the cell 

 filled in with white and the basal area irrorated with white; sub- 

 basal line blackish, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial lino 

 rather diffused, blackish, somewhat oblique and slightly angled 

 outwards at middle ; claviform indistinctly defined by black, large 

 and broad: orbicular indistinctly defined by grey, round; reniform 

 grey, indistinctly defined, its outer part obscured by an oblique 

 dark shade from costa just before apex ; postmedial line rather 

 slight, blackish, bent outwards below costa and incurved below 

 vein 4, some white suffusion beyond it on inner area ; subterminal 

 line indicated by slight white shading with some dark irroration 

 beyond it; a fine black terminal line; cilia intersected with 

 fuscou*. Hind wing white, the costal area and termen irrorated 

 with fuscous; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 fuscous, a slight postmedial line. 



Hub. U.S.A., S. Arizona. Exp. 21 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



3830. Oxycnemis babcquavaria. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 3.) 

 Oxycnemis baboquavaria, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxxiii. p. 137(1907). 



c? . Head and thorax white mixed with black-brown, the meta- 

 thoracic crest formed of metallic black scales ; abdomen ochreous 

 white with faint diffused brownish band. Fore wing purplish 

 grey thickly irrorated with black-brown and with some brown 

 suffusion on medial area in and below cell ; subbasal line black, 

 slightly angled outwards in cell, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line black, erect, very slightly incurved below sub- 

 median fold ; claviform large, defined by black, pointed at inner 

 extremity ; orbicular and reniform white irrorated with black- 

 brown and defined by black, the former rather elongate elliptical, 

 the latter produced at upper extremity, some white suffusion 

 between them in cell; postmedial line black, very strongly angled 

 outwards below costa to towards apex and almost obsolete, then 

 oblique, angled outwards at veins 4, 3 and excurved from sub- 

 median fold to inner margin, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; an oblique blackish fascia from apex to outer edge of post- 

 medial line at vein <i ; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked 

 with black ; a fine black terminal line. Hind wing white irrorated 

 with brown, the veins streaked with brown on terminal area ; a fine 

 terminal brown line : the underside white, the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, the veins streaked with brownish on terminal area, a 

 brownish postmedial line excurved below costa, then oblique. 



Hab. I .S.A.. Arizona, Baboquavaria Mts. (Poling), 2 J cofcype. 

 Exp. 2 1 millim. 



