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hairs. On the costal margin of the second lobe toward its apex the fringes 

 are white tipped. Secondaries dark brown, fringes concolorous, containing a 

 tuft of black scales beyond middle of inner margin of third feather. Expanse 

 13 to 15 mm. 



Distribution: If the synonymy here adopted is correct, this 

 species occurs on every continent except Europe, and on numerous 

 islands, inchiding the East and West Indies and Hawaii. It is repre- 

 sented in coll. Barnes by a series from Florida containing twenty 

 specimens from Chokoloskee, without dates, and one from St. Peters- 

 burg, taken in October. We have verified the identification of Arizona 

 specimens in the National Museum. The type of ochrodactylus is 

 labelled Texas. 



The synonymy of this species is presented as it appears in the 

 Biologia. It has largely been worked out by Mr. Meyrick, to whose 

 experience and judgment we defer in adopting it, for we have not 

 been able to examine material from the numerous foreign type-locali- 

 ties. The names which chiefly concern a student of the North Ameri- 

 can fauna, in that they take priority over the sole name based upon 

 North American material, were described from the following locali- 

 ties : dcfcctalis from Sierra Leone and the Congo, congrualis from 

 India and China, oxydactylus from Ceylon and haivaiiensis from the 

 island Maui of the Hawaiian group. The types of all four are in the 

 British Museum, and in addition paratypes of ccntctcs and compso- 

 charcs. The types of Meyrick's species are in his own collection and 

 that of ralumcnsis Pag. in "Mus. Dahl" according to the Biologia. The 

 type of ochrodactylus Fish is in the Fernald collection at Amherst, 

 Mass. We have seen this type, and find it to be in fairly good condi- 

 tion, excepting the loss of the abdomen. 



The "Lepidopteronnn Catalogus" gives as a biological reference 

 "Fletcher, Spol. Zeyl. 6 (21) p. 28 (biol.), t. A. f. 8 (1909)." We 

 are not familiar with this article and know nothing else of the early 

 stages. 



3. Triciioptilus californicus Walsingham, PI. XLI, fig. 3. PI. 



XLIX, fig. 8. 

 Aciftilns? californicus Walsingham. Pter. Cal. Ore. 60, pi. 2, f. 9, 1880. 

 Trichoptilus californicus Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 7, 1886. 

 Pterophorus californicus, Fernald, Smith's List Lep. N. A., 88, 1891. 

 jTrichoptilus lobidactylus Fernald, Pter, N. A. IS, 1898 (in part). 

 Id., op. cit. pi. VII, fig. 12-14, 1898 ( 3 gen.) 



