INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 15 



tina, February 16, 1921, bred from larvae in stem of Cerus 

 z'olidus (W. B. Alexander). 



Mimorista pulchellalis, new species. 



Yellow, the thorax before and abdomen shaded with brown. 

 Fore wing yellow at base, limited outwardly by a very oblique 

 brown line, from inner margin at basal third to costa at outer 

 line; a small brown patch at base, running outwardly along 

 costa; reniform large, brown, obliquely bisected by the mesial 

 line; inner line faintly indicated on costa, outer traversing the 

 brown outer area, punctif orm, with a sinus below vein 2 ; fringe 

 brown at base, dark brown outwardly. Hind wing suffused 

 with brown, irrorate with dark brown centrally, yellowish at 

 extreme base. Expanse, 20 mm. 



Type, male. No. 24977, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Catamarca, Argen- 

 tina, March o, 1921, from larvae feeding in T. huascha? 

 (W. B. Alexander). 



Sufetula philogelos, new species. 



Fore wing dark gray, powdery, the lines black, narrowly 

 whitish edged ; inner straight, outer strongly outcurved, re- 

 tracted at vein 2 in a deep sinus, a tooth on vein 1. Hind wing 

 with a similar median line, less strongly angled. Marginal ex- 

 cavation of both wings very slight. Expanse, 10 mm. 



Types, three males and one female, No. 24943, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus.; male and female, Miami, Florida (Schaus collection); 

 two males, Mirador, Mexico, June, 1921 (R. Miiller). 



On the strength of these specimens, 5*. diminutalis Walk. 

 (dematrialis Druce) has been listed from Florida; but the 

 present form bears no resemblance to diminutalis. 



Subfamily NYMPHULIN^ 



Stenia astenialis, new species. 



Sordid straw-yellow, thinly scaled, the veins, costa and outer 

 margin more thickly so ; faint inner and outer lines, the inner 

 curved, the outer excurved over cell. Hind wing pale, like 

 the fore wing interspaces, a dark line in base of fringe of both 



