168 jfirgt annual Report 



This species belongs to the gallae-solidaginis group and is close to 

 the type of the genus, but easily distinguished by the light ochreous 

 head and the lighter general color. 



Gelechia figurella n. s. 



Labial palpi silvery white, dusted with stone-gray exteriorly; 

 tuft on second joint well developed, furrowed, longer at base than 

 at tip. Face silvery white. Head and thorax ochreous, thickly suf- 

 fused with stone-gray and dark ochreous scales, which totally ob- 

 scure the ground-color except on the veins, which stand forth as 

 clear-cut thin whitish ochreous lines ; the entire venation even to the 

 fork at base of vein I 1 ' is plainly pictured on the upper surface of 

 the wings. Cilia silvery white. Hindwings silvery white. Abdomen 

 and legs light ochreous. 



Alar expanse, 21 mm. 



Habitat Laguna Beach, Southern California. C. F. Baker, coll. 



U. S. Nat. HUB. Type, No. 14336. 



Allied to Gelechia striatella Busck, but a larger and much lighter 

 and neater species. 



Scythris sponsella Busck 

 Journ. N. York Ent. Soc. XV, p. 139, 1907. 



Paraneura simulella Dietz 

 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Phil. XXXI, p. 12, 1905. 



Amydria coloradella Dietz 

 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Phil. XXXI, p. 6, 1905. 



Setomorpha rutella, Zellcr 

 Kongl. Svensk. Vet. Ak. Handl., p. 93, 1852. 



Setomorpha operosella Zeller 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull 52, No. 6549, 1903. 



Acrolophus occidens Busck 

 Proc. Wash. Ent, Soc. XI, p. 186, 1909. 



Acrolophus flavicomus n. s. 



Labial palpi curved, ascending, short, hardly reaching vertex; 

 loosely tufted on first joint and in less degree on second and third 

 joint; light ochreous; terminal joint dark brown above. Head and 

 thorax ochreous brown. Forewings light, ochreous brown with two 

 dark ill-defined streaks, forming an irregular cross; one from the 

 middle of dorsum to costa just before apex; the other from tornus 

 to basal fourth of costa; the latter is often more or less broken up 



