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Gf.i.ixhia spilosella, n. sp. 



Labial palpi with well developed furrowed brush, whitish fuscous, mot- 

 tled with dark fuscous and black. Face ochreous fuscous. Head and thorax 

 dark fuscous. Forewings dark fuscous minutely irrorated with black, extreme 

 tip of each scale being black; a prominent blackish brown spot on the middle 

 of the cell and another similar spot obliquely below it on the fold, both partly 

 edged with light brown scales; a small light brown spot on the end of the cell 

 contains one or sometimes two small black spots ; a very faint, hardly discern- 

 able lighter fuscous transverse shade across the wing at apical fourth, some- 

 times accentuated by a faint ochreous costal spot; a few black dots along the 

 terminal edge before the lighter fuscous cilia. Hindwings brownish fuscous 

 Abdomen dark fuscous with basal joints velvety ochreous above. Legs dark 

 fuscous with narrow ochreous tarsal annulations. 



Alar expanse : 20-21 mm. 



H.'\bitat: San Diego, California. 



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

 (No. 22658). 



Gei.echia retiniella. n. sp. 



Labial palpi white. Face and head white. Thorax light yellow. Fore- 

 wings white, heavily overlaid with light ochreous scales, which only leaves the 

 white ground color exposed on a very diffused outwardly oblique fascia from 

 basal fourth of costa to basal third of dorsum, on a similarly ill-defined trans- 

 verse fascia across the middle of the wing and on a somewhat better defined 

 transverse fascia at apical fourth. Cilia whitish fuscous. Hindwings silvery 

 fuscous. Abdomen ochreous. Legs dark ochreous with white annulations. 



Alar expanse: 18-21 mm. 



Habitat : Verdi, Nevada. 



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

 (No. 22659). 



Described from a series placed by the late Win. Kearfott under 

 this name; the specimens are in rather poor condition, but the species 

 is so strikingly different from any described N. Am. species that it is 

 deemed well to record it especially as specimens probably have been 

 named for collectors. The light ochreous color with the transverse 

 white fascia suggest somewhat the genus Evetria (Retiiiia). 

 Gelechia xanthophilella, n. sp. 



Labial palpi light yellow-, terminal joint sprinkled with black anteriorly. 

 Face and head yellowish white. Thorax light yellow ; patagina black. Fore- 

 wings light yellow with a blackish brown longitudinal streak through the middle 

 of the wing from base to the middle of the cell, whence it bends obliquely up- 

 wards to the middle of costa; costal edge above this line sprinkled with black; 

 an ill-defined, irregular blackish brown fascia at apical third contains a short 



