INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 169 



Elydna graphicomas, new species. 



Fore-wing ground-color grayish clay, thickly irrorate with 

 dark brown ; three dark brown lines, the outer two excurved in 

 a point and joined by a dash that runs from the cell to outer 

 margin through the points of the lines ; termen and fringe dark. 

 Hind wing brown, with two faint lines, angled outward in 

 imitation of those on fore wing, but without the joining dash. 

 The male seems rather lighter in color, but this may be due to 

 fading ; hind wing lighter, the lines indistinct ; a dark gray anal 

 tuft in male only. Expanse, male, 33 mm. ; female, 35 mm. 



Types, male and female. No. 25293, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 Guerrero, Mexico, Augvist, 1921 (R. Miiller). 



Subfamily MOMINAE 



Diphthera egua, new species. 



As in palata Grote, smaller, darker gray, the lines less con- 

 trasted and alike, or the subterminal heaviest ; bar between the 

 inner and outer lines faint or wanting ; stigmata small and 

 indistinctly margined. Hind wings white, with dark terminal 

 line and slight powderings outwardly. Expanse, 33 mm. 



Types, two males, No. 25421, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Las Vegas 

 Hot Springs, New Mexico, June 6, 1907 (H. S. Barber) ; 

 Jemez Springs, New Mexico, June 7, 1921 (F. Marlofif). 



Subfamily ERASTRIINAE 



Taseopteryx inquieticolor, new species. 



Fore wing olive gray and white with black lines. Basal space 

 broadly olive gray, bounded by a slightly irregular, distinct 

 black line ; median space white inwardly, olive gray outwardly ; 

 outer line black, slender, somewhat irregular and excurved 

 mesially, followed narrowly by white, more broadly so at costa ; 

 subterminal line whitish, lost centrally, preceded by a subapical 

 blackish streaked cloud and a curved black shade above tornus ; 

 terminal black dots between the veins. Hind wing brownish 

 fuscous. Expanse, 20-22 mm. , 



Types, two females. No. 25422, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Stemper. 



