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-with somewhat darker points on the veins, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely dentate, very oblique below vein 4 ; 

 no trace of subterminal line ; cilia brown and white. Hind wing 

 oehreous white slightly tinged with brown especially on terminal 

 area ; cilia white with a faint brown line through them ; the 

 underside white. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, Colorado, Denver, 3 c?, 1 $ • Exp. 26 

 millim. 



*3839. ? Leucocnemis nivalis. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 12.) 



Oxi/cnemis nivalis. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xxi. p. 87, pi. yi. f. 5 

 (1894); Dyar, Oat. Lep. N. Am. p. 184. 



5 • Head, thorax, and abdomen white, the head tinged with 

 oehreous in front ; the vertex of thorax slightly tinged with grey. 

 Pore wing white, the disk faintly tinged with grey and without 

 markings, except a very faint trace of a medial shade. Hind wing 

 jjure white. IJnderside of fore wing fuscous with the margins 

 white. 



The fore tibia is said to be "short and broad, not as much 

 abbreviated as in L. perfundis, and there is a small inner claw which 

 is not present in the former species. 



Hab. U.S.A., Texas. E,rp. 26 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me ; figured from a drawing from type in Coll. Brooklyn Soc. 

 Arts and Sciences. 



Genus STOMAFRONTIA. 



Type. 

 Stomafronha, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Mr. Mus. iii. p. 43(i (1905) ... albifasciata. 



Proboscis absent; palpi porrect, 'v%vj short and not reaching as far as frons, 

 moderately fringed with scales below ; frons with large round corneous 

 prominence with raised edges, the upper edge produced to a beat-like process, 

 a corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antennise of female serrate ; 

 thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales and without crests ; tibias 

 smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the 

 apex produced and acute, the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate; 

 vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 6 from just above angle; 6 from below 

 upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell 

 long; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent i'rom just below middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 strongly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle, then 

 approximated to it to extremity. 



3840. Stomafrontia albifasciata. 



Stomafrontia albifasciata, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. iii. p. 437 (1905). 



g . Head and thorax white mixed with rufous ; palpi except at 

 base, frons and antennae brown ; pectus and legs suffused with 

 brown : abdomen oehreous, white at base. Fore wing white, the 

 costal area irrorated with golden brown, the inner half from cell to 

 inner margin suffused with golden brown leaving a pure white 

 fascia in lower part of cell and thence to near teruien ; an oblique 



