[NSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 193 



I am using a manuscript name attached by Mr. William 

 Schaus. The specimen was received by him from a private 

 collector. 



Claphidia microstagma, new genus and species. 



Male antennae simple ; middle spurs of hind tibiae present ; 

 palpi reaching slightly above the vertex; fore wing with veins 

 7 to 10 stalked; hind wings with veins 6 and 7 long stalked, 

 almost coincident. 



Fore wing dark velvety brown at base, the area occupying 

 one-third of the costa, bulging out below and obsolete below 

 submedian vein, containing on this vein a small white dot, 

 nearly at the middle of the wing; rest of wing black-powdered 

 on a clay-colored ground, the ground appearing as two curved 

 lines, one just beyond the dark patch, the other outwardly, 

 crenulate and diffused ; a row of terminal dashes on the veins, 

 connected by a line. Hind wing dark brown, the veins darker, 

 and dark terminal line; fringe light with slight interline. 

 Expanse, 23 mm. 



Type, male, No. 24947, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Buena Vista, 

 Bolivia, further data missing (gift of B. Preston Clark). 



The genus is near Venadicodia Dyar, but the stalking of 

 the subcostal venules is more pronounced and the wings are 

 trigonate, of normal shape, not square with subparallel mar- 

 gins as in Venadicodia. 



Family PYRALID^ 

 Subfamily CRAMBIN^ 



Diatraea tripsacicola, new species. 



A large heavy species with the wing-pattern of the male of 

 Diatraea saccharalis Fab., similar in the two sexes. 



Fore wing straw-color, the veins lined with brown, and 

 with brown lines between the veins ; two lines in the cell, and 

 a round black discal spot at the end ; lining in the interspace 

 between veins 5 and 6 weak ; terminal black dots in the inter- 

 spaces ; two outer brown curved lines, indicated by spottings 

 on the veins, not on the interspaces, obsolete above. Hind 



