OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XI, 1909. 







atoms. The brownish supercolor is arranged in four poorly delimit 

 areas, a basal, two broad oblique costal shades, and an apical with 

 narrow intervals of whitish ochrecus. Just above the middle of the 

 dorsal edge and below the fold is a prominent tuft of raised black 

 scales; at the apex are a few black scales. Cilia light golden ochreou^ 

 with a thin black cross-line. Hind wings iridescent whitish fuscous. 

 with light straw colored cilia. Abdomen light ochreous above : under- 

 side silvery. Legs ochreous mottled with black and with black tarsal 

 annulations. 



Alar expanse, 8 mm. 



Food plannt : Quercus agnifolia. 



Habitat Alameda, California. May. A. Koebele. collect- 

 ed and bred. 



Type No. 12693, T. S. National Museum. 



Cocoon pure white, rather bluntly rounded at the ends. 

 evenly ribbed ; length, 6 mm. 



Socorypha chrysocomella, Dietz. 



Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xxxi, p. 43, 1905. 



This gaily colored little species, which has hitherto been 

 known only from the unique type, was collected in numbers 

 this summer on Sporobolus mtroiiics in Xew Mexico by Mr. 

 C. X. Ainslie, July 23. Mr. Ainslie writes: 



I was at my wit's end to get any of them; they came up out of the 

 ^od of Sporobolus on sunny forenoons and kept going with the nioM 

 dizzy motion; although there might be a dozen flickering about before 

 me up the blades and across and down again it was always the 

 merest accident when I got one; sweeping ruined them and holding- 

 tile net inverted proved of no avail. The moths then sulked and did 

 not come up. I never had a harder job than taking this 



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l'>\ a mistake of the similar names, the writer made i Can. 

 Knt., xxxvm, p. 348, 1906) this species a synonym of Etlnnia 

 albistrigella Walsingham instead of chrysnrella Dietz. de 

 scribed as a Brackcnridgia (Paraclemensia). This latter is an 

 /'.tlnnia and must sink as a synonym of the earlier <;//>/.vfn</,'. 7 /<; 

 Walsingham. The present species is a very different insect, 

 which may be included in a genus with mediostriatella Clemens. 

 as done by Dr. Dietz. though there are some differences in tin- 

 venation of the two species. The type of the genus lias all 

 veins present in the fore wings and all veins present and srpn- 

 arate in the hind wings, while the present species has vein 2 i-> 

 the fore wings obsolete and veins 5 and 6 in the hind wings 

 stalked. 



