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The markings are very variable, but their varibiHty is relatively 

 unimportant. The hind tibiae are scarcely tufted, as the description 

 suggests, but are conspicuously banded with brown. The important 

 features of the species are the bright brown markings, the sharply 

 limited buff-white anterior area of the thorax, and the light colored 

 front tibiae. 



In addition to the type series mentioned by Mr. Wright in his 

 own collection and that of Mr. Field, there are two male and one female 

 paratypes in coll. Barnes. 



17. OiDAEMATOPHORUs ciTRiTES Meyrick. PI. XLVI, fig. 9. 

 Ptcrofhorus citriUs Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1907, 502, 1908. 

 Id., Gen. Ins. C, 17, 1910. 

 Id., Wagner's Lep. Cat. pars 17, 26, 1913. 

 Barnes & McDunnoiigh, Check List 151, 1917. 



Meyrick's description is as follows : 



"$ 9. 24-27 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, face and back of crown more 

 ochreous-tinged. Palpi and antennae whitish-ochreous. Thora.x whitish-ochre- 

 ous, patagia sometimes more whitish, .\bdonien whitish-ochreous, sides more 

 ochreous. Legs ochreous-whitish, anterior and middle femora and tibiae ochre- 

 ous. Fore-wings cleft from 2/3, first segment moderate, long-pointed, second 

 much broader, shorter-pointed; ochreous, partially tinged with whitish; an unde- 

 fined patch of light brownish suffusion with a few dark fuscous scales towards 

 dorsum about 1/4; a small spot of similar suffusion in disc at 1/3; an oblique 

 dark fuscous mark a little before base of cleft, preceded by some yellow-brownish 

 suffusion which is extended upwards as an indistinct oblique streak to costa 

 above base of cleft, posteriorly edged with white suffusion; a short longitudinal 

 streak of yellowish-brown suffusion sprinkled with dark fuscous in apex of 

 second segment, and another less distinct and sometimes obsolete beneath apex 

 of wing ; cilia whitish, beneath apex with a pale ochreous patch, within cleft 

 tinged with ochreous and on upper margin of second segment with fuscous, on 

 dorsum tinged with whitish-ochreous. Hind-wings cleft firstly from before 

 middle, secondly from 1/4, segments rather narrow, second long pointed; grey, 

 sometimes much suffused with whitish ochreous; cilia wliitish- ochreous-gray 

 or whitish-ochreous. 



"Colorado, U. S., 5000-7000 feet, three specimens." 



Through the generosity of Mr. Meyrick a paratype 9 is now in 

 the Barnes collection. In addition we have a single specimen, much 

 more heavily marked, from Boulder, Colo. There are examples in 

 the National Museum from Colo, and New Mexico, Aug., and a single 

 specimen expanding 30 mm. from Ariz, which may belong here. It is 

 rather badly broken, so we can be certain of the tuarkings of the pri- 

 maries onlv, and these are as in citntcs. 



