NO. 1304. REVISION OF AMERICAN GELECHIID MOTHS— BUSCK. 857 



joint with sparse whitish scjilcs intermixed. Face, head, and thorax 

 whitish, but heavily overlaid Avith dark fuscous scales; top of head 

 and middle of thorax liohter than face and shoulders. Forewuig-s 

 deep bronzy black with four white markings, namely, one large out- 

 wardly o])lique white costal streak near base, the lower tip of which 

 crosses the fold; one nearly elliptical white spot on the middle of the 

 wing-; one triangular white costal spot at the beginning of the cilia, 

 and opposite this a smaller dorsal white spot. 



The spots are identical with those found in the two preceding spe- 

 cies, eercerisella and qulnella^ except that the second costal spot in the 

 former and the two middle spots of the latter have been replaced by the 

 single central spot in arhoneUa. 



Hindwings as broad as fore wings; light silvery fuscous, darker 

 along costa and toward the tip. Cilia a shade lighter. Abdomen 

 light fuscous with a metallic purple sheen; each joint is fringed pos- 

 teriorly with whitish scales, and the two first joints are velvety yellow- 

 ish above. 



Legs dark fuscous; tarsal joints narrowly tipped with whitish. 



Alar exjpanse. — 13 to 15 mm. 



Habitat. — Arizona. 



Type.—^o. 6373, U.S.N.M. 



Collected by Mr. E. A. Schwarz in Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona, 

 in May. 



Very near the foregoing species and the following, t)ut at once dis- 

 tinguished by its dark head, its ditierent wing spots, and its unbarred 

 legs. 



GELECHIA COLORADENSIS, new species. 

 Gehclikt roloradensis Busck, Dyar's List Anier. Lep., No. 5717, 1903. 



Antenna? black; labial palpi with well-developed brush; second 

 joint white, slightly sprinkled with dark scales above, terminal joint 

 black with white tip. Face white; head and thorax uniform dark 

 purplish black. Forewings deep purplish black with five pure white 

 markings, namely, an outwardly oblique costal white streak near base, 

 reaching the fold: an elliptical white spot on the middle of the wing; 

 an angulate white costal spot at the beginning of the cilia; an opposite 

 small dorsal white spot and a small white dot on the fold, below and 

 forward of the central spot. Just ])efore apex are found a few single 

 white scales. 



The ornamentation of the wing is precisely similar to that of the 

 preceding species, arizonella Rusck, with the addition of the last men- 

 tioned small white dot on the fold. Hindwings as broad as forewings, 

 dark fuscous. 



Abdomen above purplish lilack, ])elow whitish. Legs dark fuscous 

 with broad white bars on tibia and tarsi and with posterior coxie 

 white. 



