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distinctness of lines, and I have very little doubt they are one and 

 the same species. I hesitate, however, to unite them till I have seen 

 more material. 



3. M. atrella n. sp.— Expands 30 mm. Labial palpi short, the end member 

 very short, all black and covered with long fine outspreading black hairs, anuu- 

 lated with fuscous; front black, with long spreading hairs: thorax black; ab- 

 domen dark gray, heavily overlaid with black scales; fore wings narrow at base, 

 apex rounded, outer angle quite distinct, dark gray, overlaid with squamose 

 black scales, the veins outwardly jet-black ; lines nearly, or quite obsolete ; legs 

 with the femora and tibise with long, loose, black hairs. Hind wings blackish 

 gray. 



Specimens received from Mr. T. D. A. Cockerel], West Clitf, Col. 



Differs from all others of our Phycitids in the long spreading 

 hairs of palpi, head, thorax and legs. But as Mr. Ragonot's descrip- 

 tion of the male of excantalis does not speak of this peculiarity it 

 may be this is a very dark form of that species. The females very 

 much resemble that species ; are black with white cross lines, but 

 have no brown tinting. 



L,IPOGRAPHIS Rag. 



(Tyite fen est rella Pack.) 



Labial pal])i thick, broad, horizontal, rounded above on second 

 member, scaly beneath, third member reflexed ; maxillary palpi very 

 small ; tongue rather strong ; ocelli present ; antennre thick, bent 

 above base, a tuft of scales in bend. Legs: tai-si all sjjinulated. 

 Venation: fore wings 11 veins, 4 and 5 separate, but close; 10 sepa- 

 rate ; hind wings 8 veins, 2 distant from angle, 8 appearing stemmed 

 with 4 and 5, these stennned ; cell rather short. 



Synopsis of Species. 



1. Fore wings more or less ochreons or reddish 2. 



" without ochreous reddish liuiliilis. 



2. " base ochreous reddish ; broad reddish outer baud... leoilinella. 

 ■' base not ochreous reddish feuestrella. 



1. L.. fenestrella Packard, Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist. x. 259, 1873 (Peni- 

 pelin) ; Grote, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr, iv, 697, 1878 { Nephopteryx). —Exp&nAs 

 22—24 mm. Body and wings cinereous or granite gray, the abdomen and legs 

 being jjaler and concolorous with the legs and hind wings, which are of the glis- 

 tening hue of the family. Fore wings of the same ash hue as the thorax, 

 speckled with black scales. Two black dots at the base of the wing below the 

 median vein. Beyond on the submediau vein is a longitudinal, blackish, incon- 

 spicuous stripe, edged on each side with dull ochreous ; above it is a dark point on 

 the median and subcostal veins, with whitish scales surrounding the middle dot ; 



