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edge. Abdomen fuscous vvitli whitish underside. Legs dirty vvliite, shaded with 

 fuscous exteriorly. 



Alar expanse : 19-22 mm. 



H.'VBiT.vT: Duncans, Vancouver Is. Hanham coll.; Victoria, British Co- 

 lumbia. 



Type and cotypcs in Collection Barnes; cotypes in U. S. National Museum 

 (No. 22643). 



Allied to and with strong general resemblance to Tortrix dissitana 

 Grote, but without the solid black triangular markings on the terminal 

 edge of this species. 



Peronea m.\ximan.\, n. sp. PI. XXXII, Fig. 1. 



Labial palpi wliite, mottled exteriorly with black scales. Face, head and 

 thorax whitish fuscous, sparsely sprinkled with single black scales. Forewings 

 whitish gray with a faint bluish tint and irregularly sprinkled and strigulated 

 with darker gray and black scales; costal edge with irregularly placed blackish 

 brown geminate dashes ; terminal edge w ith a scalloped blackish brown mar- 

 ginal line, at basal third of costa is an outwardly directed transverse blackish 

 fuscous fascia, sometimes faintly indicated. A somewhat more distinct irregu- 

 lar transverse dark shade across the end of the cell from the middle of costa 

 is also variable in the different specimens, but is at least always indicated by a 

 dark spot at the end of the cell, containing two short longitudinal black streaks ; 

 a small blackish dot on the fold near the base. Hindwings light shining fus- 

 cous with darker fuscous irregular transverse striation whicli is more pro- 

 nounced on the underside; underside of forewings dark fuscous with whitish 

 costal edge on which several dark costal dashes show conspicuously. Abdomen 

 dark fuscous with yellowish anal tuft. Legs dirty ochreous white. 



Alar expanse ; 28-30 mm. 



Habit.-\t ; Vancouver Is. Hanham coll.; Victoria. British Columbia. A 

 J. Crocker coll. 



Type and cotypes in Collection Barnes ; cotxpes in U. S, National Museum 

 (No. 22644). 



A striking species nearest allied to Peronea ferrug'uugnttata Fer- 

 nald. A series of specimens from the same locality but smaller (22-27 

 mm) seeiTi to grade right into the larger form, which I have made the 

 type and I am unable to separate them, at least for the jjresent. 



Peronea fuscana, n. sp. 



Labial palpi whitish on their inner side, dark fuscous exteriorly. Face, 

 head and thorax dark fuscous. Forewings dark fuscous with a few scattered 

 brown scales and with black markings; base of costa broadly black; a black 

 rectangular triangle, consisting of two costal spots and an intermediate spot 

 below and between these, closely connected around a small dot of the ground 



