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Body ciark purplish gray; fore wing long, squarish, purple gray, rather 

 light, somewhat reddish in the lower part of median space. Basal space 

 reddish below, costal part shaded in "black. Scale ridge oblique, black, 

 followed by a broad black space to the narrow, parallel, black inner line 

 which is edged with paler without. Median space above clouded with 

 black; discal dot diffused. Outer line strongly bent outward at veins 4-5, 

 pale, narrowly black edged. Veins of terminal space black lined, the apex 

 with a small dark shade; terminal line black; fringe plumbeous, shining, 

 not metallic. Hind wing fuscous, subpellucid, fringe nearly concolorous. 

 Expanse 24 mm. 



One c?, Tryon, North Carolina, May 25, 1903 (W. F. Fiske). 

 Type. No. 7838, U. S. National Museum. 

 The species resembles Pinipestis zimmermanni Grote, but is 

 smaller and the inner line of fore wing is much more oblique. 



Ulophora tephrosiella, n. sp. 



Rather dark purplish gray. End of patagia and a streak in basal space 

 rusty red. Scale ridge dark purplish, preceded by a lighter tint and fol 

 lowed by a rusty red shade. Inner line at about the middle of the wing, 

 wavy, followed by a dark shade. Discal dots dark; outer line gently out- 

 curved, pale, preceded and followed by a broad dark shade; terminal line 

 dark; hind wings fuscous, lighter in the ^ ; fringe pale. Expanse 13-14 

 mm. 



Three specimens, Washington, D. C., August 27, 1894; bred 

 from larvae on Tcphrosia virginiana. Department of Agricul 

 ture, Insectary No. 6323. 



Type. 'No. 7839/17! S. National Museum. 



Ortholepis gillettella, n. sp. 



Fore wings with n veins, 4 and 5 separate, 10 separate; hind wings 

 with 8 veins, 4 and 5 long stalked, cell moderate, counting to the origin of 

 vein 3 fully half the length of the wing, to the center of cross vein over 

 one-third. Labial palpi upturned, exceeding the vertex, third joint slender, 

 half as long as second; maxillary palpi smoothly scaled ; <$ antennae bent 

 above base with a tuft of large scales in the bend; an erect ridge of scales 

 preceding the transverse anterior line of fore wings. Dark blackish cin 

 ereous, shining. Lines a shade paler, distinct, the inner oblique, waved, 

 the outer bent at cell and submedian fold, slightly crenulate, both edged 

 with darker; a faint blackish line runs from inception of outer line on 

 costa to median space on inner margin. Scale ridge black; the discal 

 dots form a narrow black bar of raised scales; terminal edge black. 

 Hind wings brown black. Below immaculate blackish. Abdominal seg 

 ments above faintly whitish ringed at tips. Expanse 25 mm. 



Described from one ( j\ Colorado, probably from Fort Collins 

 (C. P. Gillette). 



Type. No. 7840, U. S. National Museum. 



