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"Head and palpi rather dark brown, scarcely lighter between antennae. 

 Antennae pale brownish, dotted above with white and dark brown scales. 

 Thorax brown gray, anterior portion lighter. Abdomen fawn brown ; scales 

 somewhat raised at extremity of segments. Legs grayish brown, spurs concol- 

 orous, not tipped with darker color, tarsi pale cinereous, slightly browned at 

 extremities of joints. Middle band of middle tibiae inconspicuous, consisting 

 of a few raised scales on one side." 



Primaries brownish white, more brownish toward costa and paler just 

 before cleft. The dark patch before the cleft is powdery, of blackish brown 

 scales, and is prolonged about half way toward base of wing and connected 

 with a rather vague costal spot over base of cleft. The remainder of the wing 

 is streaked with scattered brown scales, forming one dash in the first lobe and 

 two in the second. All powdery dark areas bear a few white scales. Fringes 

 tawny-gray, slightly darker at apices and in cleft, the dark apical tufts preceded 

 by paler, but not whitish, patches. Secondaries brownish gray with slightly paler 

 fringes. Expanse about 22 mm. 



We would call attention to the fact that the front tarsi are notice- 

 ably pale, and that they are only very slightly darker on one side at the 

 tips of the joints. This character is useful to separate the species from 

 mcyricki. Judging by our three poor specimens, the middle tuft of the 

 middle tibiae is probably well developed in fresh specimens. The 

 thorax has dorso-Iateral white stripes behind, connected dorsally at 

 their middles. 



Distribution: California. We have it from Carmel, June (Va- 

 chell). 



The type in coll. Fernald has no head and only one pair of wings, 

 but is supplied with one leg of each pair and the abdomen is in good 

 condition, which cannot be said of our specimens. Of our three, none 

 are good, but one is sufificiently good to enable us to form a reliable 

 idea of the species and a second compares very closely with the type 

 as it is at present. We are unable to observe any differences between 

 the genitalia of this species and nieyricki, (see pi. LIV, fig. 1) and so 

 for a time thought that our series of meyricki was merely gratiosus in 

 good condition. The afifinities of the species with fieldi are also worthy 

 of consideration, but these species are genitalically distinct and easily 

 distinguished by superficial characters. To facilitate the separation 

 of the three we have constructed the following key, supplementary to 

 the main key to the genus. Fresh specimens should give no trouble. 

 1. Fore tarsi while, distinctly annulate. Primaries brownish gray with 



\\ bite streaks meyricki 



Fore tarsi while or whitish, indistinctly or incompletely annulate, or 

 without dark bands 2 



