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two authors, which 1 have had the use of through the kindness of 

 Professor Fernald, and Mr. Henshaw, respectively. 



These two specimens, which evidently represent his original species, 

 are Paltodora species and identical with S. Zeller's type in Caml^ridge 

 oi 2)isclj)('Jll><, and with J},, a specimen determined as j)^^cipelli.'< Zeller 

 by Lord Walsingham, in V. S. National Museum. 



Of the other species, ])red from Sohmum, I liad '>. cotype and scn^eral 

 other specimens, bred by Miss Murtfeldt, and it is identical witli G. a 

 specimen in the U. S. National Museum d(>termined and lal)eled hy Lord 

 Walsingham, G. glocJiinclhi Zidler, the descrii)tion and figure of which 

 also agree well with the specimens before me. 



This species will ])e treated later under Pldhor'nnaed Meyrick (p. 821), 

 while the KiinH/clhi Chambers =^>/.s'c//>^///'.v Zeller should stand as 

 Paltodom. 



It is of value to note Chambers's susj^icion ^ that he had two 

 species mixed, as well as his note^ that his Gelfchia cUUdiltdla^ which 

 undouT)tedly is a P(dtod(ym species (p. 780), is only microscopically 

 distinguishable from his " Gelechla solameUa,'" that is stimUiella. 



It is a good species distinct from all at present described species 

 nearest to paJJidAla Chambers, with which species it has the wliite- 

 tipped scales in common. 



Simillella was described from Kentucky, and Chambers's type in 

 U. vS. National Museum is from Texas, which is also the locality of 

 Zelhn-'s type of i?iscij)elJi><. 



Specimens in poor condition which I take to be this species were 

 reared from flower heads of sunflowm- at the Insectary of LT. S, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, received from Mr. E. E. Bogue, Oklahoma. 



This species has vein and 7 of hindwing not only connate but in 

 fact shortstalked. 



PALTODORA TOPHELLA Walsingham. 



Cleodora tophella Walsingham, Insect Life, I, 1888, p. 83. — Riley, Pmitli's List 



Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5519, 1891. 

 Paltodora tophella Busck, Dyar's List Ainer. Lep., No. 5549, 1903. 



U. S. National Museum possesses cotype, received from Lord Wals- 

 ingham; also specimen collected at Beulah, New Mexico, 8,000 feet 

 elevation by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Halntat. — California, New Mexico. 



Veins 6 and 7 in hindwings are connate. 



PALTODORA PALLIDELLA Chambers. 



Cleodora palMdella Chambers, Can. Ent., YI, 1874, p. 245; Bull. U. S. Geo). 



Surv., IV, 1878, pp. 92, 135.— Walsingham, Insect Life, I, 1888, pp. 81, 82.— 



Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5515, 1891. 

 Paltodora pallidella Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5550, 1903. 



^Biill. U. S. Geol. Sur., Ill, p. 143. ''Can. Ent., VI, p. 242. 



