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GELECHIIDAE 



ISOPHRICTIS ACTIELLA, n. sp. 



Labial palpi, face, head and thorax white. Forewings dark brownish 

 fuscous with a greenish sheen; a broad longitudinal spindle-shaped white streak 

 on the middle of the wing from base to the end of the cell; an outwardly oblique 

 white costal streak before the cilia, meeting a similar opposite dorsal streak in 

 a sharp angle ; three white costal dashes and five nearly confluent dorsal pencils 

 beyond these first streaks; a deep black basal line at base of apical cilia; cilia 

 white with three parallel black lines beyond the black base. Hindwings silvery 

 fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous. Legs dark fuscous with narrow white annu- 

 lations at the end of the joints. 



Alar expanse: 10-11 mm. 



Habitat: San Diego, California. 



Type and cotvpcs in Collection Barnes; cotvpes in L' S. National Museum 

 (No. 22651). 



A small strongly marked species, nearest Isopliriclis (Paltodora) 

 canicostella Walsingham, which differs in the white costa and other 

 details of the pattern. 



All the American species hitherto placed in the genus Paltodora 

 IMeyrick must be transferred to the genus Isophrictis Meyrick ( Ent. 

 ATo. Mag., \'ol. LIII, p. 113, 1917).' 



Epithectis citrinella, n. sp. 



Labial palpi light yellow with a broad black annulation on the middle of 

 terminal joint. Face, head and thorax light yellow ; base of patagina black. 

 Forewings light lemon yellow ; base of costal edge black ; a black costal spot at 

 basal fourth and another just beyond the middle; a small black spot on dorsal 

 edge at the end of the fold and three small black dots along the terminal edge. 

 Cilia dusky. Hindwings light silvery fuscous. Abdomen yellow with dusky 

 annulations Legs yellow with black bars on the front tibiae. 



Alar expanse: 8-10 mm. 



Habitat : Palmerlee, Arizona. 



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

 (No. 22652). 



Closest and quite similar to E. saniidersclla Chambers, but with 

 the forewings lighter yellow, with no black markings except those men- 

 tioned above, and with yellow thorax. 



