INSi;CUTOR INSCITI^ MgNSTRUUS 65 



inner, median and outer lines of the ground, slightly curved, 

 the median the most so, over the cell, shaded with green within ; 

 two small green dots at end of cell. Hind wing strongly 

 shaded with fuscous, showing traces of a darker outer band. 

 Expanse, 26 mm. 



Type, female. No. 24089, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; La Rioja, Ar- 

 gentina (E. Giacomelli). 



Sent as Chloridea virescens Fab. 



Family NOTODONTID^ 



Melalopha paraphora, new species. 



Large ; pale gray ; the lines much as in apicalis Walker, but 

 wavy and dislocated, the oblique line between inner and outer 

 lines being strongly bent ; ground color pale gray, blotched 

 with darker gray, especially at base, in the V below vein 2 

 and the outer and oblique lines ; outer line with very little 

 reddish beyond toward costa, fine in the male, more angled 

 and broadened in the female. Thorax with anterior dark 

 brown mark. Expanse, male, 31 mm. ; female, 38 mm. 



Type, male. No. 24022, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Williams, Arizona, 

 June 6, 1901 (H. S. Barber) ; paratype, female, Manitou, 

 Colorado, July (B. Neumoegen, Schaus collection). 



Family PYRALID^ 



Subfamily GALLERIIN^ 

 Aganactesis, new genus. 



Hind wing with vein 3 present, 4 absent ; fore wing with 

 7-10 stalked ; all veins present ; 7 from beyond 9 ; cell long ; 

 proboscis absent ; palpi of male slender, incurved, the long end- 

 joints crossed, of female longer, porrect and drooping; hind 

 wing with veins 7 and 8 strongly anastomosing; male with a 

 large tuft of scales in fold at base of costa of fore wing below. 



Aganactesis indecora, new species. 



Dark gray, the fore wing nearly uniform, without lines, a 

 scattering of black scales, generally along the veins, and form- 

 ing a row of terminal dots at the ends of the veins. Hind 



