no. 1649. NORTH AMERICAN CRAM HID MOTHS— KEARFOTT. 



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cream white, lightly speckled with fuscous on the outside. Head and 

 thorax light ochreous brown, heavily speckled with fuscous, internal 

 edges of patagia and posterior ends of same whitish. Abdomen light 

 ochreous brown, banded above with fuscous and brown on anterior 

 segments and blackish on posterior segments. Legs cream white, 

 heavily dusted with light fuscous. 



Fore wing creamy ochreous, strongly marked with distinct dark 

 brown lines. There is a narrow whitish line through middle of cell 

 from base to end of cell; its outer half is bounded above by a thicker 

 dark brown line; below is a similar but less distinct line from beyond 

 base nearly to end of cell. From apex a strong well-defined line goes 

 to dorsum at outer fourth; it is 45° oblique from apex to upper 

 fourth, then is slightly convex outwardly to lower fourth, where there 

 is a shallow outward pointing tooth. In the middle of lower half 

 is an obscure oblique brown line which points toward end of cell. 

 There is a faint brown streak from end of cell to terminal line below 

 apex, which is a continuation of the brown line above the white 

 median line. The lower half of 

 wing and outer half are more or 

 less dusted with light brown and 

 there is a rather heavily brown 

 scaling at base of dorsal margin. 

 Cilia whitish, speckled with light 

 brown. 



Hind wing light grayish fus- 

 cous, cilia paler underside the 

 same. Underside fore wing a 

 shade darker than hind wing. 



Fight specimens, Pueblo, Colorado, September 24, H. N. Nash; 

 Durango and Denver, Colorado, May, E. J. Oslar; San Luis Obispo, 

 California. February and March, Arthur II. Vachell. 



Cotype.— Cat. No. 11957, U.S.N.M., and in Author's collection. 



THAUMATOPSIS GIBSONELLA, new species. 



Expanse, male. 20-28 mm; female, 27-31 mm. 



Male antenna bipectinated, with branches six to seven times 

 width of stalk, each branch shortly ciliated on each side. Female 

 antenna simple. Labial palpi with rather closely appressed scales 

 on sides, with longer, looser scales on top; porrect. about four times 

 width of eye; maxillary palpi rather loosely scaled, about ;is long as 

 width of eye. Tongue long, upper end thickly scaled. Face and head 

 light ochreous brown, labial palpi heavily dusted with dark brown, 

 outer joint with grayish brown; maxillary palpi pale light ochreous 



Fig 7. — Head and enlarged antenna of 

 thaumator.sis coloradklla. 



