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NEW AMERICAN MOTHS AND SYNONYMICAL 



NOTES. 



By Harrison G. Dyar, Ph.D. 



LITHOSIIDyE. 



Hyproprepia mexicana Druce. 



1885. Lithosia mexicana Druce, Biol. Cent. Am. Lep. I, 131, pi. 13 ff 2, 3. 



1S92. Crambidia mexicana Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. I, 338. 



Dark mouse gray, a narrow yellow line on costa, through middle of cell to mar- 

 gin and along the internal margin, just a trace on the outer half of submedian fold. 

 Secondaries all gray. Sides and posterior part of thorax and tip of abdomen pink. 



Two specimens, Chiricahua Mts., Arizona (H. G. Hubbard). Coll. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. 



More heavily shaded with gray than in the specimen figured by 

 Druce, but doubtless conspecific. 



Bruceia hubbardi, sp. nov. 



Similar to B. pulverina Neum., but smaller. The colors are the same in both 

 species but the diffuse dark powderings ot fore wings are differently shaped. In 

 hubbardi there is a series of terminal dots, absent in pulverina, and there is a dis- 

 tinct angular line resting on anal angle where in pulverina there is only a diffuse 

 powdering. Expanse, 22-25 mm. 



1 S , 299 Chiricahua Mts., Arizona (H, G. Hubbard), July 4. 

 Type no. 3840, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Crambidia lithosioides, sp. nov. 



Dark slate gray, secondaries lighter at base. A very narrow pale yellow line 

 along costa almost to apex, along anterior edge of collar, broken centrally, and on 

 posterior orbits faintly; otherwise immaculate. Expanse, 21 mm. 



One 9 , Texas. (Belfrage.) Type No. 3784, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Resembles Lithosia bicolor. 



Crambidia uniformis, sp. nov. 



Dark slate gray, all the veins of primaries finely lined in dull-ocherous ; second 

 aries and abdomen a shade paler gray. Expanse, 19 mm. 



One 9 , Washington, D. C. (F. C. Pratt). Type No. 3790, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. 



Size and appearance of C. lithosioides, but without the ocherous 

 costa. 



Palpidia, gen. nov. 



Primaries 12- veined, median 4- branched, veins 3 and 4 on a short stalk, 7 to 9 

 stalked, 10 from the apex of the cell; 11 from subcostal. Secondaries 8-veined, 



