CPAMBIDIA. — PSEUPOSCAPTTA. 477 



247 c. Crambidia pura. (Plate XXVI. tig. 19.) 



Crambidia pura, Barnes & McD. Contr. Nat. Hist. Lep. N. Am. ii. 3, 

 p. 101, pi. iv. if. 5, 6 (1913). 



8 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pure white ; antenna? tinged 

 with fuscous; legs fuscous in front; abdomen with the ventral 

 surface tinged with fuscous. Fore wing silvery white. Hind 

 wing white. Underside of fore wing, except inner area, and costal 

 area of hind wing suffused with fuscous. 



Sab. U.S.A., N. Carolina, Southern Pines, Texas, 1 8 . Exp. 

 20 millim. 



247 d, Crambidia impura. (Plate XXVI. fig. 20.) 



Crambidia casta, ab. 2, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. ii. p. 127. 

 Crambidia impura, Barnes & McD. Contr. Nat. Hist. Lep. N. Am. ii. 

 3, p. 101, pi. iv. f. 4 (1913). 



8 . Head and thorax white tinged with fuscous ; antennae and 

 legs fuscous; abdomen white. Pore wing silvery white. Hind 

 wing white tinged with fuscous. Underside pale fuscous, the 

 inner area of hind wing white. 



Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (CorfcereU), 1 tf , Denver (Oslar), 1 8, 

 Arizona, Palmerlee, 1 8 cotype. Exp. 34 millim. 



-*248 a. Crambidia dusca. 



Crambidia dusca, Barnes & McD. Contr. Nat. Hist. Lep. N. Am. ii. 3, 

 p. 101, pi. iv. f. 7 (1913). 



8 ■ Head deep grey ; thorax paler grey ; abdomen grey. Fore 

 wing grey with an ochreous tinge, the interspaces irrorated with 

 fuscous leaving the veins slightly paler. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown. Underside fuscous brown, the costa of fore wing slightly 

 paler. 



Hab. U.S.A., California, San Diego. Exp. 20 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



Genus PSEUDOSCAPTIA, nov. 



Type, P. bicolor. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, short, fringed with hair ; antenna; 

 of male ciliated ; tibiae with the spurs short. Fore wing long and narrow, 

 the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved; vein 2 from middle of cell, 

 curved at base ; 3, 4 coincident ; 5 absent ; 6 from below upper angle of cell ; 

 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9 ; 10, 11 from cell, 11 anastomosing with 12. 

 Hind wing with vein 2 from middle of cell; 3, 4 on a long stalk ; 5 absent ; 

 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 



In key differs from Phseosia in the fore wing having no areole and vein 7 

 from 8 beyond 9. 



