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surface of the wing; bead and thorax concolorous. A slightly oblique, narrow, 

 brown line, lined with yellow testaceous scales on inner quarter of wing, 

 fading away on the costa. A circular, black, discal dol faintly centered with 

 whitish. An outer oblique, slightly sinuate, yellow testaceous line, 1'ainter on 

 inner edge and costa ol wing, lined externally with brown scales; a marginal 

 row ol triangular, intervenous. black dots. Hind wings concolorous with 

 the anterior pair; a single straight brown line going from the outer third of 

 the inner edge and disappearing in the middle of the wing. A faint discal 

 dot. Beneath, uniformly speckled with gray and white scales; costa a little 

 clearer; the diffuse discal spot indistinct. No bands or spots. Veins testa- 

 ceous and distinct beneath. 



1 refer, with slight hesitation, a female specimen to this species from 

 Mr. Behrens, which has the two bands on the fore wings a little farther apart, 

 and the discal spot twice as large. These may be sexual differences The 

 bind wings have a diffuse discal spot, and a single, diffuse, slightly sinuous 

 line beyond the middle of the wing, not reaching the costa. It docs not 

 re-appear beneath, though the discal dot is large and distinct. 



Length of body, 045; fore wing, S, 0.56, 9,0.58; expanse of wings, 

 1.20 inches. 



California (Edwards); Sanzalito, Cal. (Behrens). 



Desiderata. 



Tephrina haliata Guen., Pbal., ii, 97. — "28 mm . Coupe des suivantes. Ailes 

 dun cendre plus ou moins jaunatre, fortement strides de gris-fonce - , avec des 

 traits terminaux arretes. Superieures ayanl trois taches costales noires, virgu- 

 laires, donnant naissance a. des ombres transverses, grises, paralleles, obliques, 

 dout la derniere e ? sf marquee superieurement d'un point et d'une liture noirs, 

 qui se lient avec la derniere tache costale. Un trait ccllulaire qui se lie avec 

 celle du milieu Ailes inferieures avec uu simple point cellulaire gris. An- 

 tennes moniliformes, pubescentcs. 



" Californie. Deux S, envoyes par M. Lorquin." 



Tephrina muscariata Guen, Pbal., ii, 98. — "o() u,m . Coupe d'unicaZcararia. 

 Ailes d'un gris testaee clair, linement strie de noir. Lcs superieures avec 

 deux Iignes dcarte'es, un pen plus foncees, dont la seconde (coudee) legere- 

 menl flexueuse et marquee sui- la 2 d'un a quatre petits groupes d'atomes 



