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thorax and forewings are sparsely peppered with minute brown dots. 

 On the dorsal margin, at the internal margin of the first band is a small 

 patch of black-tipped raised scales. There are a few black scales at 

 the apex of the wing, and a semi-circle of brown scales in the middle 

 of the apical cilia. Hind wings and cilia pale ocherous. Abdomen and 

 legs pale ocherous, the latter densely dusted outwardly with dark brown 

 scales. Expanse : 8 mm. 



Eleven specimens; Mills College, Alameda County, Cal., 

 May 2oth to June 17, 1908. This species bears considerable 

 resemblance to some of the Eastern oak-feeding species. 



Co-types in the California Academy of Sciences, in Mr. 

 Kearfott's and in my collection. 



Bucculatrix variabilis n. sp. 



Face and head whitish, the tuft with varying proportions of gray and 

 brown scales, so that in the darker specimens, it is better described as 

 fuscous. Antennae white, annulate with black. Ground color of the 

 thorax and forewings white, more or less dusted with fuscous scales, 

 the wings toward the apex being overlaid with pale yellowish brown 

 scales. In the dark specimens the dusting is so dense that perhaps the 

 wings are more clearly described as fuscous with white costal and dor- 

 sal streaks. Just before the middle, is a pair of oblique white streaks 

 meeting at an acute angle nearer the costa. At the apical third is an 

 almost perpendicular white costal streak meeting, in the middle of the 

 wing, the apices of two dorsal streaks, of which the anterior one is ob- 

 lique pointing backward and parallel to the first dorsal streak, the pos- 

 terior one oblique pointing forward from beyond the tornus. On the 

 dorsal margin, between the first and second dorsal streaks, the dusting 

 is very dark, almost black, forming a quadrate spot extending nearly 

 half way across the wing. Just preceding the apex are a few white 

 scales, sometimes forming a semi-circular streak enclosing the apex. A 

 black apical clot and a line of dark scales in the cilia around the apex. 

 Sometimes the white ground color predominates; in this case, the dust- 

 ing below the fold is rather evenly scattered, but a little darker between 

 the first and second white streaks; above the fold the dusting toward 

 the base'is altogether lacking; there is a dark streak of scales forming 

 the internal border of the first white costal streak ; a similar, but more 

 scattered patch beyond this white streak. The apical part of the 

 wing is more yellowish brown in the light form, due to the comparative 

 absence of the dark dusting. Hind wings varying from very pale to 

 darker gray ; their cilia concolorous. Abdomen and legs gray, tarsi 

 white at the bases. Expanse, 6.7-7.8 mm. 



