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prominent, punctures larger than on rest of face, partly confluent ; face 

 covered with short black hair ; labrum with a distinct median depression ; 

 mandibles black, tips rufo-testaceous, notch one-fifth of length from the 

 blunt tip, strongly grooved without, space between eyes and base of 

 mandibles not as great as width of latter; antennae short, black, flagellum 

 deep brown beneath, reaching to line of tegula? ; cheeks sparsely fringed 

 with short, black hair ; dorsum of the thorax with short, sooty hair, 

 some black hair intermixed in spots, disc shiny, sparsely pubescent ; 

 pleura with black hair ; thorax quite evenly sparsely punctured, post- 

 scutellum more finely punctured, base of metathorax with transverse 

 series of pits, triangle shining, not smooth ; tegulae shining, distinctly 

 piceous ; wings hyaline, nervures and stigma testaceous, marginal 

 cell very dark, second submarginal narrow at top, third not narrowed 

 as much as usual in one specimen ; legs black with sooty pubes- 

 cence, tarsi reddish with rufo-testaceous hair, first joint very dark ; 

 abdomen black, punctured, first two segments shining, white hair-bands 

 on segments 1-5, on i and 2 interrupted, otherwise sparsely pubescent 

 with black hair, venter with very short black hair. 



Described from two females : Ft. Collins, Colo., 6-viii.-96 (Gillette), 

 and Horsetooth Mt., Colo., 22-vi.-99, on Potentilla. This species differs 

 from known Colorado species by the black hair on the face and pleura 

 and the sooty hair on thorax. Prof. Cockerell writes that it is closely 

 related to C. pascoensis, Ckll., from Washington ; but differs by its 

 smaller size and by possessing hair-bands. 



I wish to acknowledge the kindness of Prof. Cockerell and Mr. 

 Robertson for favours shown me in revising portions of my manuscript, 

 and for the general help they have given me. 



NOTES ON SOME NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF 



TINEID^. 



BY HARRISON G. DYAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



About the time that Lord Walsingham's valuable paper on Acro- 

 lophus and Anaphora appeared (Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1887, 137-173), 

 Mr. Beutenmiiller was working on the same group ; but neither author 

 has since attempted to recognize the species named by the other, so far 

 as I am aware. In Prof. Smith's List Lep. Bor. Amer., 1891, the group 

 is recognized as a family — Anaphoridc^ — but this can hardly stand. The 

 genera will fall in the Tineidse, in the more restricted sense (see Walsing- 



