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silvery pollinose shading to gray on bucca and changing suddenly to brown 

 just about the insertion of the antennae; bucca one-sixth eyeheight; orbitals 

 six, ocellars and verticals strong; eyes bare. Thorax subshining, halteres 

 including most of stem black. Abdomen oval, shining black with a slight 

 satiny sheen, weakly bristled, terminal segment without jointed appendages, 

 but with a few curved spines ventrally at apex. Wing subhyaline, fourth 

 vein straight, its last segment I 1 /* times the preceding, costal spine small, 

 hind crossvein straight. Legs black; front tibia with no bristles except at 

 tip; mid tibia with two on outer hind side; hind tibia with two on outer flexor, 

 two on outer extensor, and one small at middle on extensor, which might 

 almost be called the calcar, but is of insignificant size. 



Length 4.1 mm. 



Type, female, collected at Fox Point, Alaska, by Professor 

 Trevor Kincaid, on July 28, 1899, when he was on the Harriman 

 Alaska Expedition. Type No. 22170, U. S. N. M. 



A NEW SPECIES OF BUCCULATRIX INJURIOUS TO HOLLYHOCK 



(LEP.). 



BY AUGUST BUSCK. 



Bucculatrix althaeae, new species. 



Face white, in some specimens suffused with light fuscous. Tuft on head 

 light straw-colored mixed with darker yellowish brown hairs. Eyecaps straw- 

 colored, suffused with light brown. Antennae light ochreous with black 

 annulations. Thorax straw-yellow with deep ocher-yellow scales laterally 

 and in the center and with dark fuscous posterior margin. Ground color of 

 the forewings white, strongly suffused with yellow, ochreous and blackish 

 brown scales; four large illdefined costal patches of yellow, heavily mottled 

 with reddish brown; one covering the base of the wing, the second at basal 

 third, the third at apical third and the fourth just before apex; these costal 

 patches are vaguely continued across the wing as illdefined fasciae with the 

 white ground color showing between them as three narrow outwardly oblique 

 costal streaks; on the middle of dorsum just within the edge is a large tuft 

 of black-tipped raised scales. Cilia yellowish with a broken black transverse 

 line. Hindwings and cilia dark fuscous. Abdomen yellowish fuscous with 

 light yellow anal tuft. Legs dark brown with narrow yellow tarsal annula- 

 tions. 



Alar expanse 910 mm. 



Habitat: Standford University, California (Miss Isabel Mc- 

 Cracken); Ventura, California (S. H. Essig). 

 Foodplant : Hollyhock. 

 Type U. S. N. M. Cat. No. 22195. 

 The species is close to B. quadrigemina Braun, but considerably 



