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merges into blue-gray, wliich latter colour is solid at and around anal 

 angle. A faint line of this gray runs up through centre of cilia to apex. 

 Hind wing shining light fuscous, cilia same. Under side fore wing: inner 

 half pale yellowish brown, lighter than upper surface ; outer half light lead 

 colour, a dark brown, short, oblique dash on costa at inner fourth, and a 

 small black dot at middle of costa. Apical portion of under side and cilia 

 mottled with brown, and the colour of the raised scales of upper side are 

 repeated. Under side hind wing very light fuscous, marked by a few 

 brownish black broken lines, paralleling outer margin, in apical and costal 

 regions. These lines are faintly visible from the upper side. Abdomen : 

 above shining fuscous, anal tuft faintly tinged vvith brown; under side 

 same, but a shade darker. Meso- and metathoracic legs dark gray on 

 upper joints ; outer cinereous, annulated with dark brown. Alar exp., 

 14 to 15 mm. 



Described from four specimens, bred on strawberry, at Ellensburgh, 

 Wash.; forwarded by S. W. Maxey, through F. H. Cliittenden. Issued 

 Aug. 22. 



U. S. Nat. Mus. Type No. 7785. 



Commophila fuscodorsa?ia, sp. nov. — Head white, shaded vvith brown 

 on tlie sides. Palpi and thorax white. Fore wing pure wliite. except 

 basal patch and band on dorsal margin, nearly one-third width of wing, 

 extending two-thirds length of wing, and at outer end merging into a patch 

 covering lower end of cell, greenish fuscous ; overlaid along dorsal margin 

 with striations of pearly white. On the extreme dorsal edge the fuscous 

 is interrupted by a row of pure white dots. At apex are two short rounded 

 liries of dark .greenish fuscous, one margining the cilia and one paralleling 

 it just before apex, both touching costa. On the costa at middle of wing 

 are two pale greenish dots, below these a shade of light yellow, running 

 into or forming a continuation of the fuscous patch terminating the dorsal 

 band. The faint vertical streaks of very pale greenish fuscous traverse 

 the white outer third between the dorsal fuscous patch and apical lines. 

 Cilia white, except at apex, fuscous. Hind wing light fuscous, cilia paler. 

 Under side fore wing smoky fuscous, darker at apex ; hind wing light 

 fuscous. Abdomen yellowish fuscous, anal tuft lighter, legs same. Alar 

 exp., 18 mm. 



Described from two (f; $ , one Kaslo, B. C, June 7, J. W. Cockle ; 

 one Fieldbrook, Cal., May 21, H. S. Barber. 



Type, U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 7876. 



