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black dashes, and indications of cross lines along inner margin ; discal 

 spots faint ; beneath nearly colour above, fore wings with fuscous shadings 

 along costa and on anterior half, the hind wings with corresponding 

 shading on anterior margin. 



Texas ; from Mr. A. Bolter. 

 Tephroclystis iachrymosa, n. sp. 



Expands 24 mm. Palpi short, light ; these, with front, thorax, and 

 abdomen, blackish fuscous ; wings broad, rounded, loosely scaled, dark 

 sordid fuscous, very slightly broken into indeterminate lines ; two or 

 three lines of short black dashes across fore wings, lieyond cell, and a 

 pretty clear submarginal white line parallel with the outer edge ; discal 

 spots diffuse, black ; hind wings lighter basally ; discal spots faint, 

 blackish ; beneath lighter fuscous, the colour above showing brokenly on 

 costa and apex of fore wings, and outwardly on hind wings, there showing 

 in rounded lines ; discal spots black. 



Oregon. 

 Tephroclystis plenoscripta, n. sp. 



Palpi very short ; these, with front, thorax, and abdomen, light gray; 

 the abdomen much darker on the two anterior segments ; fore wings over- 

 laid with black scales running into groups of parallel lines, those basally 

 rounded, angulate, not very distinct, the middle ones with a sharp, strong 

 angle at discal point, another inwardly at median vein, then outwardly 

 at vein 2, and then wavy to inner margin ; outer space with lines sub- 

 parallel with margin ; the veins black pointed, with two whitish lines, the 

 inner smooth, broadish, the outer finer, subdentate ; discal spots distinct, 

 black ; hind wings with darker scales outwardly and along inner margin, 

 the lines showing on inner space ; discal spots faint; beneath fuscous to 

 light gray, the lines showing more broadly, especially on anterior half of 

 fore wings. 



Yellowstone Park, Wy., July 8-15. National Museum, type No. 

 4702. 



Tephroclystis tenebrescens, n. sp. 



Expands 28 mm. Much like preceding species, palpi longer and 

 heavier, and the insect considerably larger ; colour more even fuscous 

 gray, with a slightly brownish tint, with lines, except submarginal white 

 line, less distinct, and only indicated by dark shadings on veins; sub- 

 marginal line quite distinct, whitish, evenly scalloped between the veins ; 

 hind wings concolorous with fore wings, the lines indicated only by 



