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With the exception of the deptli of ground colour of primaries, all 

 the specimens are constant in markings. The species possesses a small 

 frontal navel-like tubercle, and agrees generically w'wh fj-agosa Grt., which 

 we recently redescribed as Hadenella cervoides, differing from this species 

 in the more mottled appearance, the pale terminal area and better defined 

 orbicular. \\t place it in Fotella, as it seems to bear considerable re- 

 semblance to notalis Grt., the type of the genus ; it is, however, to judge 

 by the description, much smaller and has the orbicular present. 



PhyllopJiila aleptivoides, sp. nov. 



9 . — Thorax smoothly covered with flat gray and white scales ; 

 abdomen ochreous, primaries dark gray, mingled with white and ochreous ; 

 basal portion of costa broadly white ; lower basal portion of wing between 

 submedian fold and inner margin extending to t. a. line, ochreous ; a 

 broad wedge-shaped patch of dark gray extends obliquely inward from 

 costa to submedian fold, broadest on costa and bordered outwardly b} 

 t. a. line ; this latter very obscure, geminate ; median area dark gray, 

 sprinkled with white along costa and with ordinary spots prominent, white, 

 ringed \vith black; orbicular round, with dark central dot; reniform con- 

 stricted centrally, shaped like figure 8, with central dark dots in upper and 

 lower halves ; claviform oval, pure white, about same size as orbicular ; 

 between orbicular and reniform an ochreous patch ; t. p. line geminate, 

 indistinct at costa, inwardly oblique and semiparallel to outer margin ; 

 subterminal space ochreous, with the exception of a dark apical dash 

 extending inward to t. p. line ; terminal space narrow, dark gray, with 

 terminal row of dots edged inwardly with white ; fringes dusky. Second- 

 aries smoky with whitish fringes. 



$, . — Our single specimen differs considerably from the Ç , in that 

 the whole median area is suffused with white, obscuring the three spots 

 and leaving merely the two dark central dots of reniform visible ; the dark 

 costal patch near base of wing becomes on this account much more 

 prominent ; the secondaries are paler than in the 9 . 



Beneath in both sexes dull white, immaculate. Expanse 19 mm. 



Habitat.— La Puerta Valley, San Diego Co., Cal. (G. H. Field, 

 July). One ^ , one $ . 



The species is distinctly quadrified in venation and would fall, accord- 

 ing to Hampson (Cat. Lep. H et., Vol. X), close to the genus Phyllophia 

 Gn., which as yet has no North American representatives. The front 



