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second, but its black inner margin interrupts it in tl)e middle by a sbort line of 

 black scales; tbe fourth fascia, at the apical fifth of the wing, fs also internally 

 black margined, but the black scaling is almost interrupted, becoming very slen- 

 der at the middle of the wings; the apical spot is black, encircled by white as 

 already described ; the cilia are grayish, tinged with fuscous about the anal 

 angle, and with a short golden safTron dash from the black apical spot; there is 

 no line along their base. 



Hindwings and cilia pale grayish. Abdomen gray. Hind tarsi whitish, 

 thickly spotted with fuscous above. Es])anse 7 mm." 



Described by Lord Walsingham from two specimens taken on 

 the wing near Fort The Dalles, on the Columbia River, in Northern 

 Oregon, in April, 1872. 



Lithocolletis fragilella Frey and Boll. 

 Plate XXIII, Fig. 1. 

 LithocoUetis fragitella Frey and Boll, Stett. ent. Zeit., xxxix,270, 1878. — Walsing- 

 ham, Ins. Life, ii, 51, 1889.— Dyar, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1902, No. 

 6313. 

 Syn. trifoscieUn Frey and Boll (not Haworth). Stett. ent. Zeit.. xxxiv, 215, 1873. 

 — Chambers, Cin. Quart. Jn. Sci., i, 205, 1874.— Walsingham, Ins. Life, 

 iii, 326, 1891. 

 Antennse dark brown, narrowly annulate with pale gray. Face and palpi 

 pale golden. Tuft on the vertex reddish orange, with a few brown scales inter- 

 mixed. 



Thorax and forewings deep reddish saffron. On the forewings are three 

 faintly indicated narrow whitish fascije situated at the basal fifth, two fifths, and 

 three-fifths of the wing length, respectively. 



Tbe two former are bent outward above the middle, the third is nearly straight. 

 These fasciie are sparsely dusted internally on the dorsal half with blackish 

 scales, densely so on the costal half, where the margin broadens into a triangular 

 area, that of the first fascia sometimes being produced along the costa to the 

 base. The internal margin of the third fascia interrupts it in the middle with 

 a tooth-like projection. At three-fourths of the wing length on the costa is a 

 patch of dark dusting forming the internal margin of a pale costal streak, oppo- 

 site to which on tbe dorsal margin above the tornus is a smaller patch of dusting. 

 Just before the apex is a second whitish costal streak, dusted internally with a 

 few dark scales. Apex sparsely dusted with black scales. Cilia of the wing 

 color becoming gray toward the tornus. Alar expanse 8.5-9 mm. 



Hindwings and cilia gray, with a fulvous tinge. Abdomen dark brownish 

 gray, anal tuft with an ocherous tinge. Legs brownish, tarsal joints blackisli, 

 tipped with white. 



Massachusetts to Texas. This species is identical with that 

 erroneously identified by Frey and l>oll as trifasciella Haw. from a 

 specimen bred from Loniceni sempervirens Ait. at Candn-idge, Mass. 

 (Stett. ent. Zeit., xxxiv, 215, 1873). The food plant of the Texan 



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