48 Psyche [June 
Meleoma delicata sp. nov. 
A small species, the third antennal joint not modified, the basal 
antennal joint, slender, enlarged at tip in usual manner, but with a 
flat area or scar at tip ; nearly all of the cross-veins are dark. 
Pale greenish, abdomen green, wings hyaline, cross-veins and 
branches of anal are dark. Basal antennal joints hardly diameter 
apart, cylindric, from in front outer side concave, somewhat shorter 
than usual, with a swelling near tip in front. Interantennal process 
broad, nearly truncate at tip, below it is a broad cavity, each side 
reaching to eyes, but not long, and reaching scarcely one-third way 
to tip of head; the margin is bordered with hairs, and a central 
group of hairs a little in front of it; from the side an erect process 
is seen, with an upcurved tip, pointing toward the front of the inter- 
antennal process. In certain views the upper outer corner of the 
basal antennal joint shows a short spur, Pronotum short, brown, 
with a pale median line. 
Wings sparsely veined, but hardly as much so as cavifrons. Costal 
area quite broad, but the radial area broader, and about equal to 
marginal; cubital area almost as broad as costal; tip of wings al- 
most in a point. 
Practically all cross-veins, and the gradates dark, or at least 
partly so, also the anal branches. Divisory cell about two and one- 
half times as long as broad, ending beyond the cross-vein above. 
Twenty costals before stigma, the cells higher than broad, except 
those toward stigma; eleven radial cross-veins, three cells near mid- 
dle higher than broad; gradates parallel, seven in each row, mostly 
about their length apart; six cubitals beyond the divisory; hind 
margins of fore wing with four forks beyond end of medius and 
before tip of wing. Costal fringe fairly long, hairs on cross-veins 
few and rather short. 
In hind wings the costal cross-veins and the radials mostly dark, 
nearly all the other venation greenish; six inner gradates, seven 
outer rows parallel. Length of fore wing, 12 mm.; width, 4 mm. 
A male from Ft. Wingate, New Mexico, 14 August 1908, John 
Woodgate. 
Type: M. C. Z. no. 28349. 
Another male from two miles southwest of Patagonia, Santa Cruz 
Co., Arizona, 30 July 1948 (Werner and Nutting). 
