776 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxv. 



This European species has l)een recorded by Lord Walsingham from 

 Colusa County, California. In the United States National ]VIuseum is 

 a o-ood series of authentic European specimens. I have met with a 

 single specimen in the Henr}" Edwards collection in the American 

 Museum of Natural History in New York, presumably from the United 

 States ]>ut Avithout locality label. 



It feeds, according- to European writers, in stems of TariacctuiH, a 

 weed conmion also in this countrA'. 



Veins (> and 7 in hindwings are closely approximated. 



PALTODORA PALLIDISTRIGELLA Chambers. 



Cleodorn paUidistrigella Chambers, Can. Ent., VI, 1874, p. 244; U. S. Geol. Surv., 

 Bull., IV, 1878, pp. 92, 135.— Walsixgham, Insect Life, 1, 1888, pp. 81, 82.— 

 Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., 1891, No. 5514. 



Pcdtodora paUidistrigella Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., 1903, No. 5541. 



The type No. 467, U.S.N.M., received from Chambers and bearing a 

 label in his handwriting, agrees well with the description and undoubt- 

 edly represents this species. This is the same specimen which Lord 

 Walsingham had before him in 18S8, and it has his blue label. No. llS-i. 



The white costal edge, together with the nearl}^ perpendicular white 

 costal streak and its light yellow color, separate it from the other spe- 

 cies at present known; I have two other specimens beside the type 

 agreeing exactly with this. The}" are like the t^'pe from Texas. 



This is the species which differs most from Me^^rick's definition of 

 the genus in resjDect to labial palpi, the terminal joint being onl}" half 

 as long as second joint; veins <! and 7 are distinctly connate. 



PALTODORA MAGNELLA, new species. 



Paltodora magnella Busck, Dyar's List Amur. Lep., 1903, No. 5542. 



Antennae dark brown, annulated with white. Labial palpi white, a 

 small oblong spot on the upper and outer side of second joint dark 

 brown, tip of terminal joint dark brown. 



Face, head, and thorax white, slightly shaded with brown. Anterior 

 wings yellowish gray, two outer thirds of costal edge white; a small 

 black spot on fold and two elongated black white-edged dashes on the 

 middle of the wing in continuation of each other, sometimes forming 

 one uninterrupted Idack line. 



From apical fourth of costa a thin oblique white line outward to 

 termen; above this four white dashes in the costal cilia, and opposite it 

 correspondingly a dorsal white line emitting three white pencils into 

 the dorsal cilia; cilia whitish with three heavy black transverse lines 

 at apex, Hindwing dark gray, cilia 3"ellowish. Legs light brown, 

 tarsi white, annulated with black. 



Alar expanse. — 15.5 to 16.5 mm. 



Habitat. — Colorado. 



