ILaguna agarine ILafaoratorp iro 



and is easily partly lost in rubbed specimens. Still more easily lost 

 and in fact only preserved in perfect specimens is a series of five 

 undulating lines of white raised scales across the wing; on the fold 

 in the central one of these white lines is an ill-defined black dot and 

 the outer crossline contains two or three small patches of black scales 

 before the terminal edge. Cilia light ochreous. Hindwings dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous. Legs ochreous fuscous with faint- 

 ly nnnulated tarsal joints. 



Alar expanse, 19 mm. 



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



U. S. Nat. Mus. Type, No. 14337. 



This species belongs to the group, described under the generic 

 name Eulepiste Wlsm. and comes closest to cressoni Wlsm. and 

 maculifer Wlsm., but is amply distinguished by the ornamentation. 

 The various genera, erected in the family Acrolophidae on the sec- 

 ondary sexual characters of the labial palpi can not be maintained. 

 (See Proc. Wash. Ent. Soc. XI, p. 186, 1909). 



