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and three or four small dark spots along termen. The patches of 

 raised scales are situated as follows : one within the dorsal margin 

 near hase ; heyond it another at the inner edge of the white band; 

 raised scales border the white band also just above the fold; beyond 

 the fascia on the disk a large tuft, and beyond this tuft, but nearer 

 the costa, a minute tuft; obliquely below the first of these, a larger 

 tuft in the fold, followed by a large tuft above the fold, immediately 

 above the second of these tufts, and sometimes connected with it, is a 

 small tuft. Just above the space between the two large tufts the 

 ground color is darkened. A line of slightly raised scales borders the 

 inner edge of the curved portion of the band beneath apex. Hind wings 

 brownish gray, darker along the margins, cilia concolorous. Legs 

 fuscous, irrorated, with tips of segments whitish. Alar expanse 

 13.5-14 mm. 



Type ( $ ), a specimen of the dark form, reared from larva 

 on California live oak, Qucrcus agri folia; Alameda County, 

 California. Paratypes : Alameda County ; Redwood Canyon. 

 Marin County ; Dutch Flat, Placer County ; Mt. Saw Tooth, 

 Tulare County, California, 11,500 ft. Type in the writer's 

 collection, paratypes in the collection of the Academy of Nat- 

 ural Sciences of Philadelphia, the California Academy of Sci- 

 ences, and in the U. S. National Museum. 



The following note will aid in identifying the larva : Head 

 and next two segments dark plum-colored, remainder of body 

 grayish with tubercles dark. 



This species is the closest ally of the eastern T. longifasciella 

 Clemens, but is very distinct from it. The dark form is the 

 most common ; specimens with a distinct whitish band are 

 rather unusual, but all gradations between the two occur to- 

 gether. 



Recurvaria ceanothiella n. sp. 



Face white, head dusted with dark fuscous ; palpi black, second seg- 

 ment with a narrow white annulus near apex, and another at extreme 

 apex, more whitish inwardly, third segment with a white annulus at 

 base and middle, extreme tip white. Antennae dark fuscous, basal 

 segment white anteriorly, stalk annulate with gray. 



Fore wings whitish, densely dusted with dark fuscous; three darker 

 shades cross the wing obliquely, at one-fourth, one-half and three- 

 fourths respectively, sometimes scarcely distinguishable from the rest 

 of the wing except as dark patches on costa. Between the first of 

 these and the base of the wing, a small black spot on costa; between 



