220 NOCTDID^. 



streak above inner margin to before middle ; a slight obliquo 

 white shade from costa near apex to the reriiform, the veins on it 

 vpith fine black streaks ; subterminal line slight, white, dentate, 

 somewhat angled outwards at veins 7 and 4, crossed b)' an 

 oblique dark shade from apex to discal fold and defined on inner 

 side by diffused brown below vein 4 ; a black terminal lino 

 slightly defined by white on inner side; cilia with fine wnite 

 line near tips. Hind wing white tinged with brown ; a dark 

 terminal line; cilia white with a slight brownish line through 

 them; the underside white irrorated with brown, a brownish 

 discoidal lunule and curved maculate postmedial line with minute 

 dark streaks on the veins. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Walters Station, 1 S cotype yuma, 

 Arizona (Polhu/), 1 cS , Yuma Co., 1 $ , Prescott (Kuuze), 1 $ , 

 Exj^- -^ millim, 



*3835. Oxycnemis adusta. 



Oxi/cnemis adicsius, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxxiii. p. 139 (1907). 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous suffused with dull grey, frons 

 chocolate-brown, vertex of head and thorax irrorated with black, 

 the metathoracic crest darker ; abdomen whitish tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing ochreous suffused w4th dull ash grey; subbasal 

 and antemedial lines absent ; claviform very elongate, extending 

 from base to near postmedial line but very indistinct and represented 

 by scattered white scales only ; orbicular and reniform indistinctly 

 defined by white, the foroier elongate and confluent with middle 

 of latter ; postmedial line fuscous defined by whitish on outer side, 

 acutely angled outwards beyond the cell, then oblique ; subterminal 

 line very irregular and interrupted, whitish defined on inner side 

 by dHrk shades and streaks in the interspaces, more prominent at 

 discal and submedian folds, a diffused white streak from its inner 

 side at costa to the reniform ; a black terminal line ; cilia greyish 

 with a yellowish line through them. Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with fuKcous especially towards termen ; cilia white ; the underside 

 whitish. 



Hub. U.S.A., Texas, San Antonio. Exjj. 11 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



Genus FALA. 



TvDe. 

 Fala, Grote, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 425 ptycophora. 



Probosc-is fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint hardly 

 reaching the miudle of" frons and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd short ; 

 frons with large round corneous prominence with raised edges and flattened 

 vertical process in centre rounded m front, and curved corneous plate below it ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennae of male somewhat laminate and minutely ciliMted ; 

 thorax clothed witli rough hair, the pro- and raetatliorax with spreading 

 crests; tihise moderately Iringed with hair, tlie fore tibia with long curved 

 claw on inner side at extremity ; abdomen with some rough hair at base but 



