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base to apex of black, brown and yellow scales is interrupted at the end of tlie 

 cell by an oblique pure white dash; cilia bluish white, mixed with gray and black. 

 Hindwings fuscous white with purer white cilia. Abdomen whitish fuscous. 

 Legs blackish, sprinkled with white ami with narrow white tarsal annulations. 



Alar expanse : 21-22 mm. 



Habitat : La Puerta Valley, South California. 



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

 (No. 22673). 



Very similar and closely allied to the eastern Etiimia viacelhosi- 

 ella, Busck, with same pattern less boldly outlined, differing in the 

 whitish hindwings and the smaller size. The male genitalia also show 

 good distinguishing characters (PI. XXXIV, Fig. 7). 



