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tized patches, one large, tlie other small, each set with sharp thornlike 

 projections. Signiim of bursa very large, oval. 



Alar expanse, 16-17 mm. 



Type. — In the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



Type locality. — Behrens, Calif. 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



Distribution. — Known only from California. 



United States records 

 California: Carmel, 4^5,9 ("June," A. H. Vachell). 



Reviarhs. — The type of thoracenigraeella, in the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology, Cambridge, is in verj^ poor condition. The right 

 fore wing, in good condition, is still attached to the thorax, but the 

 abdomen, most of the legs, and all the other wings are gone. 



Despite the poor condition of the type I have been able to recognize 

 five specimens as this species. The figures of the genitalia have been 

 made from two of these specimens. 



MARTYRHILDA THORACEFASCIELLA (Chambers) 



Plate 24, Figures 146, 146a ; Plate 41, Figure 235 



Gelechia thoracefasciclla Cuaubers, Cincinnati Quart. Journ. Sci., vol. 2, p. 246, 



1875; Can. Ent., vol. 10, p. .50, 1878; U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr. Bull. 4, 



p. 147, 1878. 

 Depressaria thoracefasciella (Chambers) Riley, Iji Smith, List of the Lepidop- 



tera of Boreal America, No. 5494, 1891.— Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 



24, p. 740, 1902 ; in Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5867, 1903.— Keakfott, 



m Smith, List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6410, 1903. — Gaede, 



in Bryk, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 92, p. 354, 1939. 

 Depressaria thoracifasciella (Chambers) Meyeick, in Wytsman, Genera insec- 



torum, fasc. 180, p. 176, 1922. 

 Agnoptcryx thoracefasciella (Chambers) Babnes and McDunnough, Check list 



of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6451, 1917. 

 Agonopterix tJioracefasciella (Chambers) McDunnough, Check list of the 



Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States of America (Part 2, Micro- 



lepidoptera), No. 8442, 1939. 



Labial palpus with second segment ochreous-white, mottled with 

 fuscous exteriorly; third segment blackish fuscous with a poorly 

 defined ochreous-white median band and ochreous-white tip. 

 Antenna blackish fuscous. Head, thorax, base and basal fourth of 

 costa of fore wing whitish ochreous. Ground color of fore wing 

 brownish fuscous sparsely irrorated with whitish ochreous; extreme 

 base of costa, and shade beyond whitish-ochreous base, blackish 

 fuscous; first two discal spots small, black, obliquely placed one above 

 the other ; at the end of cell a conspicuous white or whitish-ochreous 

 discal spot surrounded by a blackish-fuscous suffusion; along costa 

 and around termen a series of poorly defined blackish-fuscous spots ; 

 cilia fuscous, mixed with ochreous-white. Hind wing brownish 



