288 GEORGE D. HULST. 



closing the distinct discal spot at about its middle: outer space also darker, edged 

 within with a sinuous dark line followed by a line of ground color, and the band 

 broken by the lighter veins which are of the ground color of the wings ; mar- 

 ginal line brown ; hind wings light oehreous, becoming more pronounced ochre- 

 ous outwardly : beneath all wings of an even smoky oehreous color, the fore 

 wings showing a shade darker outwardly, and within apex along costa. 



Alaska. Two specimens from Prof. Riley, neither in good con- 

 dition. 



V. |»olygraniinata n. sp.— Expands 18-22 mm. Palpi gray or blackisli 

 gray, extended, heavy, porrect or drooping; clypeus tufted, gray or blackish 

 gray : thorax slightly tufted posteriorly, gray or blackish gray. Abdomen ringed, 

 varying from light to dark gray, and also sometimes stained with ocher ; fore 

 wings light gray to gray crossed by many nearly parallel cross-lines, these not so 

 heavy generally on basal space, and on outer space, giving in most cases the ap- 

 pearance of a broad central band running evenly across the wing, the discal por- 

 tion narrowly being a shade lighter, and the outer and inner lines here being 

 less parallel ; the outer space is sometimes narrowly lighter outside middle band, 

 often broadly so, the whole space being of the same color, and this and basal 

 spa(!e often also tinted with ocher yellow : margin somewhat darker, with a nar- 

 row, even, dentate, whitish line parallel with outer margin. 



Colorado, from Mr. Bruce ; California, from Dr. Riley ; Ariz. 



C. oxygi-amiiia n. sp.— Expands 34 mm. Palpi and face fuscous gray, the 

 palpi short and scaly : thorax light gray, patagise whitish. Abdomen ringed with 

 gray and whitish, ocher tinted towards end; fore wings white, somewhat dull, 

 with blackish cross-lines, the first basal bent even, extreme base blackish, then a 

 narrow band within discal spot bent outward at cell, then wavy to before vein 1, 

 there bent at a right angle towards base following the Hue, then again bent at a 

 right angle to inner margin, this darker on margins and the same width across 

 the wing; another band of like width and color beyond discal spot sinuous, with 

 three bends across the wing in the general direction of outer margin merging 

 with previous band at middle of wing and then separating to inner margin, the 

 two bands thus enclosing a long costal space and a rounded triangular space at 

 inner margin ; another band inc(miplete, but well marked near apex and again 

 at vein 5, almost obsolete otherwise ; marginal line of black dots, discal spot 

 black, the outer cell and veins tinged with yellow ; hind wings light gray, with 

 trace of median and marginal cross-lines: beneath as above, but less distinct, the 

 two middle bands scarcely joining. 



Havilah, Cal. From Henry Edwards. 



35. 9IEL.A:V0I*TIL0X H.-Sch. 

 Aiisen. Schme. 1855. 



Tyjjc bifenesfntfinn H.-Sch. 

 Emplocia Guen., Phal. ii, .531, 1857, type hespe rid arid Guen. 

 Palj)i short, porrect ; tongue developed ; front short scaled, broad, 

 somewhat rounded ; anteiuue flattened, even, or suhdentate in % , 

 flattened, filiform in 9 . Thorax and abdomen untufted, very closely 



