PYRALID^, SUBFAMILY HYPSOTKOPIN^. 65 



base ; pectus and legs white suffused with brown. Fore wing 

 white tinged with purplish pink, the veins streaked with white ; 

 the costal area white narrowing to a point at apex and with vein 12 

 defined on each side by brown, a brown shade below the costal 

 area. Hind wing white with a faint ochreous brown tinge on 

 costal area and in submedian interspace. > 



Br. E. Africa, Teita {Jackson), 1 S type. Exp. 16 mm. 



(3) tLEOTRDPA PAPUANENSIS, sp. n. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish suffused with reddish 

 brown, the last dorsally tinged with fulvous towards base. Fore 

 Aving whitish irrorated with reddish brown, the costal area rather 

 whiter, narrowing to a point at apex and with slight brown 

 streak below it. Hind wing white slightly tinged with brown, 

 the cilia white. 

 _ Dutch N. Guinea, Ron I. [Doherty), 1 d type. E.vj^. 14 mm. 



Genus Alamosa. 



Type. 

 Alamosa Hmpsn. Rom. Mem. viii. p. 369 (1901) . injjeratella. 



Proboscis aborted and minute ; palpi downcurved, extending- 

 about twice the length of head and thickly scaled ; maxillary 

 palpi minute and filiform ; frons with flattened corneous plate 

 produced to two slight points in front and thickly scaled above ; 

 antennfe of male laminate. Fore wing narrow, the apex rounded; 

 vein 2 from towards angle of cell ; 3 and 5 stalked, 4 absent ; 6 

 from below upper angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked, 8 from beyond 10 ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with A'ein 2 from just before angle of 

 cell ; 3 and 5 strongly stalked, 4 absent ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 strongly anastomosing Avith 7, 



(1) Alamosa piperatella. 



Alamosa piper atella Hmpsn, Rom. Mem. viii. p. 369, pi. 51. 

 f. 25 (1901). 



U.S.A., Colorado, N'ew Mexico. 



(2) *Alamosa bipunctella. 



Alamosa bipunctella Barnes & McD. Contr. Nat. Hist. Lep. 

 K Am. ii. 4, p. 184, pi. 1. f. 7 (1913). 

 U.S.A., Florida. 



Genus Navasota. 



Type. 

 Navasota Rag. N. Am. Phyc. p. 1 8 (1 887) hehetella. 



Proboscis aborted and miiiute ; palpi extending about the 

 length of head and moderately scaled, the 2nd joint oblique, the 

 3rd porrect ; maxillary palpi minute and filiform ; frons smooth 

 with conical tuft of hair ; antennae of male laminate and ciliated, 



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