173 INSSCUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



terminal black line ; subterminal line forming a series of angular 

 scallops on the veins. Expanse, 18 mm. 



Type, female, No. 25298, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Mexico City, 

 Mexico, October, 1921 (R. Miiller). 



Tephroclystia dustica, new species. 



Fore wing thin gray, the lines obsolete; discal mark a con- 

 spicuous ringlet; black blotches on costa, the one bevond cell 

 largest ; a series of black dots on median vein, indicating faint 

 wavy cross-lines, two beyond cell somewhat more distinct; 

 termen darkly shaded, the subterminal line showing as a series 

 of white specks. Hind wing with dark discal dot, the inner 

 margin with a series of dark and pale wavy bands, a subterminal 

 wavy dark line crossing the wing. A broken dark terminal line. 

 Expanse, 20 mm. 



Type, female, No. 25299, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Mexico City, 

 Mexico, August, 1921 (R. Miiller). 



Family PYRALIDAE 

 Subfamily PHYCITINAE 

 ^ Promylea mindosis, new species. 



Fore wing long and narrow, lustrous dark gray, blackish 

 shaded ; inner indistinct, inner straight, strongly outwardly 

 oblique ; discal mark annular ; outer line dark, excurved mesially. 

 Hind wing translucent fuscous. Expanse, 25-26 mm. 



Types, two males, one female, No. 25300, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 Mexico City, Mexico, August, 1921 (R. Miiller). 



. Promylea dasystigma, new species. 



Similar to mindosis, darker, blackish; inner line straight 

 across wing, obscure, preceded by paler; discal mark double, 

 conjoined ; outer line followed by white, forming a distinct spot 

 on vein 1. Expanse, 25 mm. 



Types, two females, No. 25301, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Mexico 

 City, Mexico, August, 1921 (R. Miiller). 



/ Rampylla nefas, new species. 



Fore wing long and narrow ; blackish gray, basal space light 



