NO. 1203. NEW XOCTUID :iIOTHS— SMITH. 491 



from Hot Spriug's, Xew Mexico, 7,000 feet altitude (Hulst collection); 

 Oracle, Arizona, July 7 (E. A. Scliwarz), and some point in Southern Cal- 

 ifornia, from Dr. H. H. Belir. The type locality is Jalapa, Mexico. The 

 specimens vary somewhat in the amount of contrast and in the ground 

 color; but in general they are lighter or darker ashen gray, the reniform 

 creamy or whitish, the light shade extending to the costa and forming^ 

 a triangular contrasting blotch which will call attention to the species. 

 The generic reference is questionable if our own species of Tlialpo- 

 chares are correctly referred. 



PARORA, ne-w genus. 



Head rather small, well applied to the head, though hardly retracted. 

 Eyes naked, hemispherical, not prominent. Palpi long, obliquely pro- 

 jecting beyond the head by more than its own leng'th; second joint 

 longest and evenly thickened; third slender, cylindrical, rounded at 

 the tip. Front only a little convex, with a short, pointed, hairy tuft. 

 Tongue strong, normally developed. Thorax rather short, quadrate, 

 only a little convex, with close scaly vestiture. All the tibiae unarmed, 

 except for the usual spurs. Abdomen cylindric, smoothly scaled, a 

 little exceeding the anal angle. Primaries broad, costa and inner 

 margin arched, apex rectangular, the outer margin a trifle excavated 

 below it and a little produced at the middle. Secondaries proportion- 

 ate, vein 5 as strong as any other, but from the cross vein and well 

 removed from 4, not really forming x^art of the median series. 



The genus at lirst sight tends to the Erebiid or Poaphilid series, but 

 the moderate discal cell and the location of vein 5 of the secondaries 

 indicates its place to be a little higher in the series. 



96. PARORA TEXANA, new species. 



Ground color a very pale luteous. Head and collar chocolate brown, 

 thorax with a somewhat paler brown discal stripe, which may become 

 partly lost. Primaries without strong- contrasts, the most i^romiuent 

 mark being a smoky cloud which extends from the reniform to the 

 transverse posterior line or a little beyond it. Transverse anterior line 

 narrow, brown, upright or a little oblique, with three almost even sin- 

 uations. Median shade line a little broader, but more diffuse at the 

 edges, darker, parallel with the transverse anterior line and a little 

 within the middle of the wing. Transverse posterior line slender, 

 blackish, followed by a paler shade, defined outwardly by a few dark 

 scales, so that the line seems geminate. In course it is broadly ontcurved 

 over the cell, and only a little drawn in, in the submedian interspace. 

 Subterminal line lunulate, slender, dark, preceded by a pale yellow 

 liiie at the base of the fringes. Orbicular a small blackish dot. Eeni- 

 form moderate in size, upright, a little constricted in the middle, 

 yellow. Secondaries smoky with a reddish shading, a little paler at 

 base. Beneath more yellow, practically immaculate. 



