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PYRALIDAE 

 PYRAUSTINAE 



NOCTUELIA ARIDALIS, Sp. nOV. 



Palpi with the first joint white, the other joints olivaceous-brown. Patagia 

 tinged with pink. Dorsum of thorax olivaceous-brown, the metathorax tinged 

 with pink. Abdomen olivaceous-brown to pale fuscous. Primaries very vari- 

 able, the ground color olivaceous-brown to bright pink. On the best marked 

 specimens a distinct italic N is present on the right primary, and of course re- 

 versed on the left, of a pale-violaceous color. In suffused specimens, the space 

 between the arms of the N is filled in with the same color, making the medial- 

 subterminal portion of the wing unicolorously pale violaceous. When the 

 N is suffused the ground color has a tendency to change to olivaceous-brown. 

 All intermediates are present. There is a broad white or creamy basal dash, 

 extending from the base of the wing to or nearly to the N. Secondaries : pale 

 fuscous, with a darker band along the outer margin. Fringes of all wings pale 

 fuscous, often with a paler interline ; the fringes of the primaries sometimes 

 being tinged with pink. Beneath : pale fuscous, the secondaries almost white, 

 the primaries paler around the margins and where the basal dash shows thru. 



Expanse: 14-16 mm. 



The present species is closely allied to pandoralis, B, & McD,, but 

 the inner line of the N pursues a far more diagonal course from the 

 costa to the inner margin, whereas in the former species this line is 

 more nearly erect. In the three specimens of pandoralis before the 

 authors the medial part of the N is missing, as is also the basal dash, 

 but the course of the lines and markings appears more trustworthy in 

 this group than their presence or absence. 



Presumably the same species is represented in the Barnes collec- 

 tion by one specimen from So. Arizona (Poling), heretofore confused 

 with pandoralis ; and a single specimen from Southern Nevada, March 

 16-23 (Poling). 



Type locality: Dixieland, Imperial Co., Calif.; O. C. Poling, Collector. 



Number and sexes of types: $ Holotype, March 15-30; $ Allotype, 

 April 1-15 ; 126 $,49 Paratypes, dates ranging from March 1 to May 15, all 

 1922. 



SCOPARIINAE 



SCOPARIA BRONZALIS, sp. nOV. 



Belongs to the basalts group of the genus, to which it is closely allied in 

 size and habitus. Primaries with an apparently light gray ground color, which 

 is considerably darkened by a suffusion of darker gray scales, with a distinct 



