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Hind wings ochreous white. Abdomen ochreous. Legs oclireous, 

 .sprinkled with black scales. 

 Alar expanse, 15 mm. 



Food plant: A triple. r canescens. 



Habitat San Bernardino County, California. May. A. 

 Koebele coll. and bred. 



Type No. 12700, U. S. National Museum. 

 Venation and oral parts typical. 



Gnorimoschema faustella, new species. 



Labial palpi dark brown; inner side whitish; tuft slightly tipped 

 with white; terminal joint with an indistinct white annulation near 

 base. Face whitish. Head and thorax dark brown. Fore wings dark 

 brown with costal apical and basal part of dorsal edge blackish and 

 with dark brown cilia ; three blackish-brown obscure round spots, one 

 <>n the fold, one in the middle of the cell and one at the end of the cell. 

 Ilind wings dark fuscous. Abdomen above dark brown with tip of 

 each joint ochreous: underside light ochreous brown. Legs blackish 

 brown with narrow ochneous annulations on the tarsal joints. 



Alar expanse, 16 mm. 



Habitat Beulah, New Mexico. 8,000 feet altitude. July. T. 

 I). A. Cockerell coll. 



Type No. 12699, U. S. National Museum. 



Venation and oral characters typical ; nearest to Gnori- 

 moschema pedmontella Chambers. 



Gnorimoschema chiquitella, new species. 



Labial palpi white, second joint barred externally with black, terminal 

 joint with a black annulation before the tip. Antennae white, annulated 

 uith black. Face and head grayish white. Thorax white, dusted with 

 black. Fore wings white, evenly and freely dusted with black atoms, 

 each of the long scales, characteristic of the genus, being white at ba^r 

 .UK! the extreme tip, with a black band across the middle. Hind wings 

 bVht silvery fuscous, cilia ochreous white. Abdomen dark gray above: 

 anal tuft and underside whitish. Legs white, freely dusted with 

 black: tarsi with black annulations. 



Alar expanse, 8 mm. 



Habitat Mesilla, New Mexico. C. N. Ainslie, coll. 



Type No. 12683, U. S. National Museum. 



The smallest described American species of this genus ; in 

 coloration very much like Gnorimoschema tetradymiscella 

 Husck, though not so strongly suffused with black and less 

 than half the size. Venation and oral characters typical of 

 the irenus. 



