GROTE ON NORTH AMERICAN PYRALID^. 



687 



Inner line defining outwardly the blivckisU basal space. The line itself 

 is black, with a slight median notch, nearly perpendicular. Median 

 space washed anteriorly with white. A short, black, discal streak. 

 Outer black line very finely denticulate, shaped much as in snijeratalis, 

 but not i)roduced so much on median nervules. It arises at about 

 apical third, at first outwardly oblique, then running inwardly below 

 median vein and narrowing the median space thence to internal margin. 

 Terminally the wing is again black or blackish. A broken black line at 

 the margin. Fringes on both wings dark, pale at base, with broken 

 blackish interline. Beneath blackish, with common shade-band and 

 black discal point on hind wings. 



Expanse, 25 mil. Texas, No. 420, collected by Belfrage, April 30. 

 Missouri, collected by Mr. Eiley, who informs me the larva lives on 

 Toxicodendron. 



Cacozelta Grate. 



Male autennce with the tegumentary process a little 

 exceeding the i^rothorax. Labial j)alpi curved up- 

 ward, exceeding the front a little, concealing in the 

 male the brush-like maxillary i^alpi, which are much 

 as in Pempelia. In the female, the long brush is 

 wanting. The third article of the labial palpi is 

 scaled, pointed, rather short. Fore wings much like 

 Mochiocera in the position of 7, 8, and 9, but the cell 

 is nearly closed, and vein 1 is distinctly furcate at 

 base, while veins 4 and 5 intersect. On the hind 

 wings the cell is almost entirely closed, and veins 4 

 and 5 intersect. 



Cacozelia hasiochrealis, fig. 3 (neuration). 



Cacozelia basiochrealis Grote, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 264, 1877. 



S 9 . Eusty-ocherous. Interior line double, arcuate, rusty-brown; 

 basal space ochery. A costal dark dot surmounting a faint concolorous- 

 ringed discal mark ; median field light stone-gray; median shade visible 

 as a patch of dark, slightly raised scales. Posterior line rusty, double, 

 inclosing a whitish shade, most distinct on casta, of the usual shape. 

 Subtermiually the wing is brown, washed with gray on external margin. 

 A fine, terminal, dark line on both wings. Hind wings yellowish-gray, 

 with a fine, denticulate, exterior line. Beneath ocherous ; costa at base 

 brown. Head and appendages ocherous; beneath, the fore and middle 

 tibiaB are purplish ; hind legs dotted with brown. 



Expanse, 18 mil. Two specimens, No. 018, July 17, collected in Texas 

 by Belfrage. 



In the colors of primaries, this species recalls Chalcoela anrifera, or 

 Chalcocla Bobinsonii. 



