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Anacampsis i.ACTiLUSOciiKELi.A Chambers. 



Gelechia lacteusochrcUa Chambers, 1875, Cinn. Quart. Jour., Vol. 



11, p. 244; Busck, 1903, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XXV, p. 897; 



Barnes, 1917. List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 6329. 



This name, which for nearly half a century has been on our list 

 as unrecognized, we now apply to a small inconspicuous species of 

 Anacampsis from Riverside, Calif., and South California, which agrees 

 well with Chambers' description, incomplete as it is. The species is 

 nearest A. crescentifascicUa Chamb. and A. argyrothamniella Busck, 

 and good series are fotmd so labelled in U. S. National Museum and 

 in collection Barnes. 



EUCORDYLEA ELUCIDEM.A. n. Sp. 



Second joint of labial palpi blackish brown with a large ill-defined white 

 annulation below the middle ; terminal joint black with two narrow diffused 

 white annulations, one at base and one on the middle and with extreme tip 

 white; brush on the inner side of second joint in the male large, dirty yellowish 

 white ; this brush is not found in the females. Antennae black with narrow 

 white annulations. Face and head yellowish white, sprinkled witli fuscous. 

 Thorax dark fuscous. Forewings light gray with three ill-defined and obscure 

 blackish dashes on costa, one at basal fourth, one on the middle and one at 

 apical third ; these black dashes are edged with white and are faintly continued 

 across the wing, the first as an outwardly oblique narrow and broken fascia, 

 the two others straight across the wing; each of these fascia is emphasized by 

 tufts of raised black scales, edged with white, two of which on each fascia are 

 larger and more persistent in the flown specimen than the other markings. 

 Cilia light fuscous. Hindwings light fuscous; in the males with a large expan- 

 sive bright yellow hairtuft at base. Abdomen ochreous above with fuscous 

 underside. Legs ochreous white barred and annulated with black. 



Alar expanse: 11-13 mm. 



Habitat: San Diego, California. June. 



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

 (No. 22657). 



The genus Eucordylca Dietz was erected on the peculiar labial tuft 

 and has been known hitherto only from a few males. The females are 

 now found to have palpi as normal in the genus Recurvaria with which 

 Eucordylea is identical in venation. I postpone until a revision of the 

 family the decision whether or not the genus Eucordylea can be log- 

 ically maintained. 



