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3 ; 5 and 6 coincident, stem perceptible to base ; cell open be- 

 tween 4 and 5 + 6. and between 5 + 6 and 7. Hind tibiae 

 smooth. 



Genotype : E.regctia crocea n. sp. 



Allied to Hrioptris Meyr. and Otoptris Meyr., especially to 

 the former. In general aspect, it resembles Tischeria, to 

 which it is also related, but is relatively narrower and longer 

 winged. 



Exegetia crocea n. sp. 



Face, head and antennal eye-caps light reddish ocherotis ; antennal 

 stalk fuscous. Fore wings pale ocherous, reddish tinted at the base, 

 with a little fuscous dusting on costa near base ; shading to reddish 

 ocherous toward apex. Hind wings and cilia pale ocherous. Legs 

 ocherous, irrorated with purplish fuscous. Abdomen ocherous, grayish 

 toward tip. Expanse: n mm. 



Locality: Owen River Valley, California. 

 Type in author's collection. 



DICRANOCTETES new genus. 



Head, smooth ; tongue present. Labial palpi long, slender, 

 widely diverging, terminal joint two-thirds of second, acute. 

 Maxillary palpi obsolete. Antennae two-thirds, finely ciliated 

 in the male, basal segment flattened,, scarcely enlarged. Fore 

 wings ovate-lanceolate, apex sharply upturned; ib simple, 2 

 absent, 3 from angle and continuous with lower margin of 

 cell, 4 absent, 5, 6 and 7 out of 8, 5 from near base of stalk, 

 7 to costa, 9 connate with stalk of 5, 6, 7 and 8, cell open be- 

 tween 9 and 10, n from before middle of cell; cell narrow, 

 margins becoming coincident at base. Hind wings one-half 

 lanceolate, cilia 3 ; 4 absent, 6 absent, cell open between 3 and 

 5. Posterior tibiae with bristly hairs above. 



Genotype: Dicranoctetes ain/ularis n. sp. 



Allied to Hiero.YCstis Meyr., partiVularlv in general fea- 

 tures of the neuration, but differing in the smooth head and 

 absence of maxillary palpi. All the veins indicated in the de- 

 scription as present, are distinct, showing no lendencv toward 

 obsolescence. 



