361 



Meyrick, Gen. Ins. C, 13, 1910. 



Id., Wagner's Lep. Cat. pars 17, 17, 1913. 



Barnes & McDunnough, Check List 151, 1917. 

 Whitish, sometimes stained ochreous. Antennae grayish above, darker 

 below. Palpi concolorous, small, slender, upturned, reaching middle of front. 

 Abdomen with a faint dorsal stripe. Legs whitish, shaded slightly with gray. 

 Primaries grayish, the vestiture of mixed white and light brownish gray 

 scales, lobes mostly white. The lobes are very long and slender, and the first 

 has a tendency to turn forward in many specimens. Fringes brownish gray 

 on costa of first lobe with two white patches, at base of cleft and on costa 

 of second lobe each with one, and on inner margin with two, and whitish 

 toward basal limit. Secondaries brownish gray with concolorous cilia and 

 very slender lobes. 



Distribution: Described from four males from Colo. In coll. 

 Barnes from Chimney Gulch, Colo., one specimen, and Stockton, Utah, 

 (Spalding), a good series taken mostly in June but including one 

 specimen dated May 31. 



Of the four specimens in the type series one is now in the Na- 

 tional Museum and three in the Fernald collection. Two of the latter 

 are labelled "type" and the others "cotype". 



The early stages have apparently not been studied. 



In superficial appearance ivalsinghami is closest to spUodactylci 

 Curtis but the alternate light and dark patches in the fringes of the 

 primaries are in the opposite order and the insect is more definitely 

 grayish. It is the only true Aciptilia in our fauna, and differs from 

 all other species except in Trichoptilus in the slender lobes of the pri- 

 maries, and from the species of that genus in the grayish color and 

 absence of black scales from the fringes of the secondaries. 



Genus Pselnophorus Wallengren 

 Haplotype Alucita brachydactyla Treitschke 



Pselnophorus Wallengren, Ent. Tidsk. XI, 96, 1881. Brachydactyla sole species. 



Meyrick, Handbook 437, 1895. 



Hofmann, Deutsch Pter. 50, 178, 1895. 



Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1907, 491, 1908. 



Id., Gen. Ins. C, 14, 1908. 



Id., Wagner's Lep. Cat. pars 17, 20, 1913. 

 Gypsocharcs Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 488, 1890, Haplotype baptodactyla 

 Zell. 



Tutt, Ent. Rec. XVII, 36, 1905. 



