NO. 1301. REVISION OF AMERICAN OELECHIID MOTHS— BUSCK. 849 



front from base to apex. Face creamy white; head and thorax light 

 drab colored. Fore wings drab colored, lightest nearly white along the 

 costa, gradually darker toward dorsal edge. 



In the middle of the cell is a small indistinct blackish dot, a similar 

 one nearer base on the fold and a third at the end of the cell. At 

 apical fourth is an oblique narrow white streak directed outward and 

 nearly meeting a similar l)ut curved dorsal streak directed upward 

 and outward. Both streaks are slightly edged with black anteriorly. 

 The area between the dorsal streak and the edge of the wing is white, 

 mottled finely with black, each scale ]>eing tipped with black. Apical 

 cilia dark brown with base whitish and containing a heavy blackish per- 

 pendicular line; dorsal cilia yellowish white with the apical dark line 

 continued fainter and interrupted along the edge of the wing. Hind- 

 wings dark purplish fuscous, cilia a shade lighter and with a narrow 

 whitish line at base along the edge of the wing. Abdomen dark pur- 

 plish except first two joints above which are light velvety yellow, anal 

 tuft yellowish. 



Fore and middle legs and underside of thorax deep dull brown, 

 nearly ])lack; tarsal joints tipped with yellow; hindlegs on the outside 

 dark brown mottled with yellow, the inside and tuft on tibial yellow, 

 tarsi banded with yellow. 



Alar expanse. — 3 mm. 



Ifahitat. — Mesilla Park, New Mexico. 



T>/jje.—^o. 6372, U.S.N.M. 



A beautiful species, near the foregoing, cydelhi^ collected ))v Prof. 

 T. D. A. Cockerell. 



The wing pattern strongly reminds one of the HtrUddla group of the 

 genus Paltodora. 



ANACAMPSIS FULLONELLA Zeller. 



(ielediia {('eratophom/) fullo)i.dl(i. Zellek, Verli. k. k. zool.-lxit. txepell. Wien, 



XXIII, 1873, p. 276. 

 (ielechia fuUonella Gkamb^bh, Bull. U. S. Cleol Surv., IV, 1S78, p. 14:!.— Rilkv, 



Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5366, 1891. 

 Gelechia rufusella Chambers, Can. Ent., VI, 1874, p. 240; Bull. I'. S. Geol. Surv., 



IV, 1878, p. 1474.— Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5472, 1891. 

 Gelechia {Trlchotaphe) rcfim'Ilu\V\h>ii-SiMiAii, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Phila., X, 



1882, p. 184. 

 Gelechia subruberella CHAMBERS, Can. Ent., VI, 1874, p. 240; ('inn. Quart. Journ. 



Sci., II, 1875, p. 254; Buli. l^. S. Geol. Surv., IV, p. 147, 1878.— Riley, 



Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5486, 1891. 

 Menesta rubescens\YAhsiN<iu.\M, Proc. Zool. Soc. LoiuL, \>. .S19, issi, pi. x.xxvi, 



fig. 9. 

 AiKicdmpxhfnlUntelUi Busck, Dyar's List Amcr. Lep., No. 5709, 19(i;!. 



The types of fullondla are in the possession of Loivl W'alsingham, 

 to whom I am indebted for the information (in h'tter of May Id. 

 1901) that it is the same as Cham))ers'' nifuscUa. 

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