168 INSECUTOR INSClTli^ MENSTRUUS 



Type, female, No. 25418, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Jemez Springs, 

 New Mexico, May 20, 1921 (F. Marloff). 



Cucullia nanuscula, new species. 



Fore wing stone-gray, lines and stigmata obsolete. A long 

 very slender black line from base along submedian ; median vein 

 outwardly and veins 2 to 4 narrowly black lined, the line of 

 vein 2 ending at basal third; an irregular macular black shade 

 along costa; subterminal blackish dots, preceded by a faint 

 whitish shade. Hind wing pure white. Expanse, 32 mm. 



Type, male, No. 25419, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Jemez Springs, 

 New Mexico, May 12, 1921 (F. Marlofif). 



Subfamily ACRONYCTINAE 



Acronycta exempta, new species. 



Fore wing bluish gray, the reniform a contrasting dark red- 

 brown cloud. Lines as in albantfa Grote, less sharply marked, 

 illy contrasted. Orbicular obscure; reniform without white 

 edging, the rusty brown cloud filling the whole area. Hind wing 

 suffused vv^ith fuscous. Expanse, 34 mm. 



Type, female. No. 25420, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Jemez Springs, 

 New Mexico, June 27, 1921 (F. Marloff). 



Perigea caustimargo, new species. 



Fore wing reddish brown, the markings much obscured in 

 the male, distinct in the female. Reniform large, pale yellow- 

 ish and diffused, a rather conspicuous pale streak in line 

 with the median vein to other line. This marking is common to 

 both sexes, which otherwise have a dissimilar habitus. Outer 

 margin and fringe tinged with burnt brown, this also in both 

 sexes. In the female, lines geminate, dark, the inner dislocated 

 in cell and submedian, the outer excurved above, with points on 

 the veins ; subterminal shade pale, wavy, somewhat diffused. 

 Hind wing fuscous, rather darker in the male than in the 

 female; fringe reddish. Expanse, male, 31 mm. ; female, 30 mm. 



Types, male and female, No. 25292, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Mexico 

 City, Mexico, September and October, 1921 (R. Miiller). 



