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the dorsal edge ; beyond the last of these tufts, which contains some 

 white scales, is a thin oblique pure white line from the tornus towards 

 apex. Apical part and cilia rather freely dusted with white. The 

 ornamentation, especially the tufts and the white line, is easily 

 destroyed by rubbing, and flown specimens are determined with diffi- 

 culty. Hind wings light bluish fuscous, darker towards the edges and 

 with dark brown cilia. Abdomen blackish brown above : underside 

 ochreous white, mottled with brown. Legs blackish brown with narrow 

 ochreous tarsal annulations. 

 Alar expanse, 13 to 14 mm. 



Habitat Tracer Count}-. California. August and Septem- 

 ber. A. Koebele, coll. 



Type No. 12696, U. S National Museum. 



Described from six apparently bred specimens of Mr 

 Koebele.'s careful mounting. Hind wings with veins 3 and 4 

 slightly separated ; 6 and 7 connate. 



Gelechia lophosella, new species. 



Tuft on second joint of labial palpi rather short, compressed, fur- 

 rowed; light ochreous, strongly sprinkled with black: tip of tuft 

 black; terminal joint long, heavily scaled, compressed; black, sprinkled 

 with ochreous and with an ill-defined ochreous annulation at the base. 

 Face and head light ochreous, sprinkled with dark fuscous. Thorax 

 blackish fuscous; fore wings blackish fuscous, with poorly defined orna- 

 mentation; near the base ; s a small tuft of brown and black scales: on 

 the middle of the cell is a similar tuft of raised scales: and obliqueh 

 below on the fold is a somewhat larger tuft, edged with light brown: at 

 the end of the cell are two small, nearly confluent tufts of black scale- 

 surrounded by light brown ; at apical fourth is a conspicuous white 

 costal spot and the edge of the wing has a few scattered white scale- 

 before the cilia. Hind wings rather dark fuscous. Abdomen dark 

 fuscous. Legs ochreous, broadly barred and annulated with black. 



Alar expanse, 12 mm. 



Habitat San Diego, California. May. L. E. Ricksecker. 

 coll. 



Type No. 12689, U. S. National Museum. 



Received from Mr. \Y. D. Kearfott, in whose colknion arc 

 additional specimens. Fore wings with 6 separate: hind wing? 

 with 6 and 7 short-stalked; 3 and 4 connate. An obscurely 

 marked species, recognizable by its raised scale>. 



Heliodines albaciliella, new species. 



Second joint of labial palpi and cheeks below the eyes \\liile: 

 i<-nnina1 joint black, sprinkled with white; antenna 1 purplish black, 

 lighter brown at the tips. Face. head, and thorax metallic greenish 



